Israel is an Apartheid state build and kept up through ethnic cleansing. (There's a reason why it's illegal settlements are called "Jewish settlements" you know - no Israeli Arabs, no Palestinians allowed to live in them.)

Israel tortured a man named Arafat Jaradat(1983-2013) to death this year. They arrested him for throwing a stone and demanded that he become an informant for them and when he didn't they tortured him until he died.

Majority of Israeli academics are quite comfortable with the whole occupation and all the human suffering it causes. It's only right that they are made to be pay a price for allowing their government to do commit human rights violations and war crimes.