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Associate Professor Philip Mendes is the Director of the Social
Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social
Work at Monash University and is the co-author with Nick Dyrenfurth of Boycotting Israel is Wrong
(New South Press), and the author of a chapter on The Australian Greens
and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the forthcoming Australia and Israel(Sussex Academic Press). Philip.Mendes@monash.edu