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From competing in the Eurovision song contest to participating in the European Research Area, Israel is beneficially treated as a European nation. Yet its violations of international law against the Palestinians, attested in UN resolutions and in contravention of Europe's own humanitarian conventions, attract no international sanctions. The academic boycott of Israel, following the wide-ranging boycott of South Africa that helped to publicise and end the iniquities of apartheid, aims to focus attention on issues of human rights, in the hope of securing a just peace in Palestine/Israel. The parameters of the boycott and the opposition mounted against it are explored here by two of its leading proponents, even as they expose the double standards to which Israeli and Palestinian students and academics are subjected.

This article examines the relationship of new right ideology to the attack on welfare. It asks why it is so hard to defend the welfare state in its present form. Central to new right ideology is a methodological individualism rooted in biological determinism, sociobiology, which replaces a collective by an individual view of human need. Neo-marxist writings on the welfare state emphasise the state, but neglect the second (private) and third, (domestic) systems of welfare pointed to by the new feminist critique. This critique, which derives from an analysis of gender divisions and the nature of reproductive labour within all three welfare systems, is contrasted with the masculine, productionist tradition. This new understanding can form the basis of an enriched theory of human need, integrating biological and social, which offers a restatement of the goals of collective welfare.

Based on a chapter of the forthcoming book, "Education for democracy," edited by Colin Stoneman and David Rubenstein.