Engage engages the Israel boycotters
Academic boycotts of Israeli institutions are among the ugliest efforts of anti-Zionist activists to discredit Israel and Zionism. There is no longer much pretence that these boycott activities are divorced from anti-Semitism. The Palestine Solidarity campaign in the UK failed to approve motions condemning anti-Semitism, and thereby announced to the world precisely what they are. As far as they are concerned, they concluded the artificial argument based around the question "is criticism of Israel anti-Semitism?" by answering the question in the affirmative. Their criticism of Israel is certainly anti-Semitic. They do not even have the decency to be hypocritical about it, as others have done. Continued...
The impulse to boycott Israeli Academics stems from the same ideology that caused the Nazis to boycott Jewish firms and throw Jews out of universities. Future generations will find it absurd and sad that Jewish anti-Zionists like Ilan Pappe supported boycotts against themselves, and their own universities. Perhaps they will also marvel at the Israeli academic system that tolerated such behavior in order to defend the sacred principles of academic freedom and the open society.
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Ami Isseroff on 03.29.07 @ 06:47 PM CST [link]
