The Dangers of Academic Boycotts

With all the hubbub regarding the British boycott of Israeli academics by the University and College Union you've got to take a step back and just look at all the facts.
The UCU in May 2007 voted to 'consider the moral implications of existing and proposed links with Israeli academic institutions'.
So basically any Israeli academic should be refused invitations on the grounds that they are members of the state of Israel. Essentially this is a collective punishment against the Israeli Professors due to the government of Israel; so even those that did not vote for Kadima (the current Israeli government) are being caught in this net of anti-Israel sentiment.
What's most surprising is that the academics of Israel are generally those that are most opposed to military action against the Palestinian population. Traditionally academics are generally anti-war and this sentiment has expanded throughout the last 40 years to include anti-globalization, anti-imperialism and in some cases anti-Western attitudes. The academic boycotts only harm the peace process. There are plenty of ways to initiate violence but only few ways to create peace and one of those ways is through the citizens debating the actions of the government. Academics are considered some of the most well educated individuals in the country and they are being banned from speaking their mind to foreign audiences. If this continues then their voices of debate and reason will be drowned out in all the accusations by the citizens and government of anti-Westernism.

“If we are to look at Israeli society, it is within the academic community that we've had the most progressive pro-peace views and views that have come out in favor of seeing us as equals....If you want to punish any sector, this is the last one to approach.”

— Al-Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh on academic boycotts of Israel

The rise of academic, economic and social boycotts against Israel is frightening. Whilst Israel can overcome economic boycotts easily (it's GDP has grown over the last several years and has rebounded nicely since the end of the 2006 Hezbollah-Israel war) academic boycotts are much more dangerous.
If academics willingly single out Israel for condemnation yet turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses in other countries, such as Darfur, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the government control of television stations and soon to be dictatorship of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, then what's to stop them from teaching their biased view to their students. Academic bias against the West is also on the rise with major American universities conducting internal investigations against their own professors or in some cases promoting their staff's bias.
How are students supposed to learn both sides of the story when their tutors, the people that students are meant to trust the most, are filling their head with propaganda (on both sides of the political spectrum) and limiting their chances for debate.