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Schama was critical of a call by British novelist John Berger for an academic boycott of Israel over its policies towards the Palestinians.

Writing in The Guardian in an article co-authored with lawyer Anthony Julius, Schama compared Berger's academic boycott to policies adopted by Nazi Germany, noting " This is not the first boycott call directed at Jews.

On 1 April 1933, a week after he came to power, Hitler ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices and department stores.