Following a rank and file fight-back, the executive committee of the National Union of Journalists has backed down over the decision made earlier in the year at NUJ conference to back the campaign to boycott Israel.
NUJ now says that it has “resolved ‘to take no further action’ over the boycott call”.  The full statement is here on their website.  More than thirty members had explicitly resigned from the union and it is thought that a significant number of others had quietly stopped paying their dues. 
BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones co-ordinated the successful rebellion from this website.
http://www.engageonline.org.uk/fighting/

The campaign for an academic boycott of Israel has ended today in an absolute and final political, legal and moral defeat.
The University and College Union’s (UCU) own lawyers advised it that a policy to exclude academics who work in Israel from the global academic community – and to exclude nobody else on the planet - would have been a violation of equal opportunities legislation in Britain.
http://www.engageonline.org.uk/blog/