Should we consider a boycott of Israeli academic institutions? Yes

I am an English-born British medical graduate, practising as a
psychiatrist in Canada.
I am a member of the Assembly or parliament of the American Psychiatric
Association - representing Canada's largest province, Ontario.

At the APA we recently passed virtually unanimously a resolution
condemning these so-called attempted academic boycotts.
As far as I can see Tom Hickey is not a physician. What is his odious ill-
informed hysteria doing in a prestigious medical journal?

Those of us of British origin working elsewhere are deeply and
profoundly embarrassed by the loss of objectivity and common sense that
seems to be coming from some quarters in Britain these days. The world of
medicine should be the last place for such completely inappropriate
trouble-making to be given any publicity.

Competing interests:
None declared