today

(1) According to Khaleej Times (and elsewhere including BBC) teaching staff at various universities and colleges in Britain oppose the government order to report the activities of Muslim students who could be suspected of Islamic radicalism.

The Department for Education and Skills has asked higher education staff to report about "suspects" in the classes as a means to stem terrorism on campuses.

AND ALSO (from BBC)

(2) Academics have backed calls for a wide-ranging debate on a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

If a boycott was to be agreed upon it might mean UCU members being urged not to attend conferences at Israeli universities or submit articles to their journals, it was said.

IMO: I think anyone who has crossed a picket line will know what these bums mean by "urged".

As a member of the general public I would see it essential to report where appropriate to the appropriate Police or authorities any serious attempt, by ANY creed or religion to breach the peace. Whether they would find it worthwhile to take notice or not could be another matter.

On the basis of the two extremes above we could end up with a universal screening process which may already preventing very many serious persons from conducting their work as they might wish. Two obvious cases in the past are David Bohm and Abdus Salam To those who like me who knew them, further comment is possibly not necessary.

IMO: At one of my favorite websites here, the most important celebrity is certainly not seriously breaching the peace although if he were informed he would doubtless be saddened by the mindless wholesale slaughter by the Blairite Government..