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Wed 02 Feb 2007Israeli academic rejects Irish call for boycottMIDDLE EAST:An Israeli professor has sharply criticised staff in Irish third-level colleges who called for an academic boycott of his country. Speaking during a visit to Ireland, Prof Asher Susser accused the 61 lecturers and professors who issued the boycott call in a letter to The Irish Timeslast September of being selective in their criticism."What surprises me is that these academics choose to focus on Israel as the only focus of their criticism of the entire international community. I've never heard them talking about boycotting Sudan, for example, for committing genocide on a daily basis," he said. "The singling out of Israel is, to say the least, surprising to me."