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Prof Yosef Yeshurun

Digery Cohen | 24.09.2006 20:51

The boycott is right and necessary.

So can Israel
So can Israel


Israel must wake up and smell the coffee.

Everyone is turning against Israel.

In February, a group of British architects called to boycott companies involved in the construction of the West Bank separation fence.

In August, film director Ken Loach announced he would not attend cultural events in Israel.

In early September, a joint British-Palestinian group of architects sought to ban Israelis from participating at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

"Academic boycotts are opposed to the international principle of academic freedom," said Professor Yosef Yeshurun, Rector of Bar Ilan University.

Yeshurun knows a lot about ‘principle’ and ‘freedom’ from watching the slaughter of Palestinains by Israelis from his house which once belonged to Palestinians who were ethnically cleansed.

Digery Cohen
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Everyone???

25.09.2006 11:48

You say everyone is turning against Israel? I think you'd better do your homework again. None of the proposed boycotts have taken effect, they have all been overturned. Meanwhile they caused an anti-boycott backlash so that cooperation with Israel is greater than ever.

The last sentence of your little screed is so full of lies and hate that I wish Prof. Yeshurun would take you to court for libel. What do you know of Professor Yeshurun? What do you know about where he lives and what he can see from his house? He will certainly not have seen any slaughter of Palestinians because such things do not happen, no matter what your fervid little brain might dream up and spit out.

ank


"everyone" = almost nobody

25.09.2006 16:36

Take a look. AUT's boycott? Overturned in a month. NATFHE? That decision went out of existence the day UCU was born, and UCU immediately issued an official notice saying as much in as many words. American AUP? Repudiated the concept of boycott long before anyone got anywhere close to enacting one. American Presbyterians? Overturned their boycott a few months ago at the earliest procedural opportunity. And so on.

Quite a combination: a losing strategy, and a strategy that's losing.

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