Posted on 05/30/2006 9:30:03 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Addressing British Secretary of State for Education, Alan Johnson, and Universities UK President Drummond Bone, the Simon Wiesenthal Centers Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, called for their action against the British academic boycott of Israeli universities.
“The ongoing campaign, last year at the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and this year at the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) to incite to a British academic boycott of Israeli universities - is redolent of the Nazi 1930's 'Kaufen Nicht Bei Juden' boycott of Jewish professionals and enterprises,” Samuels said in a letter to the British officials.
'An instrument of anti-Semitism'
“Though led by the so-called ‘British Committee for Universities in Palestine’, the campaign is a propaganda instrument of the PNGO - a network of Palestinian NGOs that includes groups associated with the European Union blacklisted terrorist organization Hamas, and those which glorify suicide terrorism, as perpetrated last July in London."
The letter stressed that "this boycott will not only be a disservice to the British taxpayer whose monies you administer. It will contravene British obligations under Article 13 of the EU's Treaty of Amsterdam that forbids all discrimination,” adding that "the fact that the Israeli victims of this boycott will, in the main, be Jewish, is, ipso facto, an instrument of anti-Semitism. Furthermore, this campaign violates British Middle East policy by reinforcing those elements that reject any hope for a peaceful settlement."
The Center called on both the Education Department and Universities UK "to ensure that any university, college, or other academic institution, including their departments or faculty, which subscribes to such a boycott, will be barred from your funding or grant recipients list until this collaboration with the boycott is publicly revoked."
I don't know what the UK government should do about this, but the boycott is not only unjust and viscious, but stupid. It really lowers my esteme for British academics.
If anyone again in my presence refers to "poor Palestinians" and their "plight," I think that I will barf. The Palestinians voted for Hamas. If I were to post my true opinion of those people, I would be violating the rules for posting on this site!
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It's a bloody disgrace, but the Teachers are so infested with lefty liberals/commies, that they are unable to see just how awfull this behavior is.
This issue is continually being promoted by your academic intellectuals? They obviously are not curious enough to go seek the truth about this conflict. I know that anti-Semitism comes naturally in Britain. It’s a second nature not only to your academics but also to your politicians, members of your foreign services, the Mayor of London etc. After all the house of Saud was created with the help Jack Philby!
Maybe, in response, the rest of the world’s academics should boycott the British?
Again this action demonstrates how morally vacuous your teachers are!
This issue is continually being promoted by your academic intellectuals? They obviously are not curious enough to go seek the truth about this conflict. I know that anti-Semitism comes naturally in Britain. It’s a second nature not only to your academics but also to your politicians, members of your foreign services, the Mayor of London etc. After all the house of Saud was created with the help Jack Philby!
Maybe, in response, the rest of the world’s academics should boycott the British?
Again this action demonstrates how morally vacuous your teachers are!
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