an academic boycott of israeli educational institutions should be part of a bigger boycott of israeli products and services. there already is a campaign to do just that:

 http://www.mylinkspage.com/israel.html

as boycotts go, boycotting israel and the US should be at the top of the list.

Pay attention, Professor. If you support the proposed academic boycott of Israel — and if you are to remain intellectually honest — prepare for a radical lifestyle change. Firstly, unplug your computer. Good. Now switch off your interactive digital television set. Well done. And now throw away your mobile phone. Excellent. You see, Professor, these machines are not only the engine of the globalised, capitalist world but they also depend on technologies that have been produced by Israeli academics in the Zionist entity.

Stop playing with your detached mouse, Professor, and concentrate. I’m afraid you may not use the British Library because it has been computerised by Ex Libris, a Zionist company that was spawned by the odious Hebrew University of Jerusalem. And if, God forbid, you develop problems of the small intestine, you may not pop the Zionist-invented ‘video capsule’, which passes naturally through your body as it monitors this delicate piece of your anatomy. You will, sadly, have to take it up the derrière, Professor. As a matter of principle, of course. But remember: your principle allows your proctologist to keep his hand in.

All this boycotting, you see, is the logical extension of proposed academic sanctions against Israel by some members of your Association of University Teachers (AUT) when they meet in Eastbourne next Wednesday. Just visit the website of Egyptian-born Mona Baker of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. She set the standard by firing two Israeli scholars from the boards of her translation journals as a matter of high academic principle.

You will see that Ms Baker’s ambitions do not end with the academic boycott. Her website also includes a section entitled ‘Boycott Israeli Products & Services’, which features dozens of global brands that, inconveniently, are not Israeli at all. The offenders presumably have earned their place in infamy by dealing with the Zionist entity, by being owned by Jews or by having Jews on their boards. They range from Coca-Cola and Nescafé to Johnson & Johnson and Estée Lauder, from Hugo Boss and Ralph Lauren to Selfridges and Marks & Spencer, from Kleenex and Wonderbra to Lancome and.... All marked for boycott.

Absent from Ms Baker’s list — and here I think I can help — is a set of global companies which are arguably even more culpable because they not only operate in Israel but also do most of their R&D there. IBM and Intel each have three R&D centres in Israel; Microsoft established its first non-American facility there, and Cisco Systems has built its only non-American R&D centre in Israel. Then there is Motorola, which has its largest R&D site in Israel, and News Corp, whose company NDS develops those neat interactive technologies for digital television. There are many more.

Well, my computer doesn't use Intel, I have an AMD processor, it's just better. I certainly don't watch Cable TV, god forbid, I don't want my brain to turn to mush. I'm not a big fan of the pharmaceutical industry, I think we're too reliant on drugs when really we should be focusing on prevention of problems by improving our diet and lifestyle choices. In all the years of my life, since being a teenager, I've gone very well without taking any drugs, and having a healthy vegetarian diet, plenty of exercise, not smoking-drinking...

I mean, all those things you described, I don't really think of them as very good, really. Especially cable TV. Maybe if people stopped using those products, the world would actually be a better place anyway!!! You're not doing a very good job of persuading me to use Zionist products.

By the way, McDonalds send money to Israel. McDonalds is rubbish, and is making a generation of obese, unhealthy people.

Boycott zionist products!!!