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By Hasan Suroor
Britain's most influential student body, the National Union of Students (NUS), joined the growing condemnation of Professor Mona Baker of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (Umist) for dismissing Miriam Schlesinger and Gideon Toury from the two journals she runs. Prof. Schlesinger, who worked for the journal The Translator, is regarded as a leading liberal voice in Israeli academia, and Prof. Toury, who was on the editorial board of Translation Studies Abstracts, teaches at Tel Aviv university. A NUS spokesperson said it was "abhorrent and nothing short of racism'' to exclude people on the basis of their nationality. "This is an abuse of academic freedom that can only have a negative impact on students at Umist,'' said the union amid calls for a more "grown-up'' approach to political issues. Curiously, though about 700 academics recently signed a petition calling for suspension of all academic and cultural contacts with Israeli institutions, there has been no sign of support for Prof. Baker who insisted that her decision was "political, not personal''. ``I boycotted South Africa in exactly the same way,'' she said even as her own university distanced itself from her action saying it had nothing to do with "what happens on those journals''.
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