Hoist by their own petard
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Bound by laws that they passed, they now howl in frustration since they find their own freedoms circumscribed. These laws were designed to silence their enemies, not themselves. Even more galling is the long march of infiltration designed to provide an organised platform for their sectarian ways falling before the legal demands of British law. They fall back upon their own odious shibboleth of an academic freedom that they do not espouse for others.
-Philip Chaston on the doomed boycott of Israeli universities by the British academic Left
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