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Please Freep the AUT and their Israel Boycott

Posted on 04/23/2005 7:54:19 AM PDT by kingsurfer

http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=9

E-mail: hq@aut.org.uk

Telephone: 020 7670 9700 | Fax: 020 7670 9799

Association of University Teachers Egmont House 25-31 Tavistock Place London WC1H 9UT

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Your boycott will only do damage to the reputation of British Academia. Should you want to makea point to Israeli Institutions I suggest you gather a petition or write a letter. Censoring Academics for alleged censorship seems hypocritical. Two wrongs do not make a right. Why only target Israel for the boycott? What about Saudi Arabia, where Jews and Christians are not allowed to practice their religion? What about Zimbabwe, Iran and many other nations who, unlike Israel, have no democracy and no human rights charter?

This boycott is ill-timed, counter productive and irrational. I urge you to repeal this decision.

(And for your information I am a non-Jewish English resident)

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A copy of my email to them. I suggest as many people write to them as possible. It is probably best not to flame them and to articulate your points as best as possible.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; United Kingdom; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
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Since I am British I feel it is only right that I should lead the call to freep these people. Please be polite but firm and point out the hundreds of reasons why the boycott is a bad idea.
1 posted on 04/23/2005 7:54:19 AM PDT by kingsurfer
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To: kingsurfer

I wrote them before the vote.

The BBC indicates no debate was allowed and only one side presented. This is a group in the full control of the Palestinians. Nothing can change them except the refusal of the British universities to comply and action here--i.e. denying AUT members visas ..


2 posted on 04/23/2005 8:00:49 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: the Real fifi

It is complete madness. I mean they should look at Palestinian schools that incite violence before looking at Israel.


3 posted on 04/23/2005 8:03:32 AM PDT by kingsurfer
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To: kingsurfer

Is there anything in Western academia which is not stark raving mad--especially in what is preposterously called the social SCIENCES ?


4 posted on 04/23/2005 8:11:34 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: the Real fifi

True.


5 posted on 04/23/2005 8:12:24 AM PDT by kingsurfer
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To: kingsurfer

Theses bigots claim they are anti-Israeli but not anti-Jewish. What rot. If Israel was an Arab country and everything else being equal, would they still be boycotting? Of course not. Why don't they boycott Syrians for their occupation of Lebanon? What scumbags.


6 posted on 04/23/2005 9:45:49 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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E-mail: hq@aut.org.uk

AUT President, Angela Roger: president@aut.org.uk

AUT General secretary, Sally Hunt: sally.hunt@aut.org.uk

International issues, Assistant general secretary, Brian Everett: brian.everett@aut.org.uk

Telephone: 020 7670 9700 | Fax: 020 7670 9799

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7 posted on 04/24/2005 5:22:34 AM PDT by SJackson (The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love, Andre Malraux)
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To: SJackson
Bttt.

5.56mm

8 posted on 04/24/2005 5:58:34 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: kingsurfer
It also might do to email Tony Blair, as last time the Nazis at AUT tried this, Blair intervened. EMAIL PM BLAIR

Of course, be reasoned and polite.

9 posted on 04/24/2005 6:08:38 AM PDT by veronica (CP-Jeffords Republicrats...)
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To: kingsurfer
EuroWeenie Alert!
10 posted on 04/24/2005 6:33:05 AM PDT by pabianice
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Title: Away with him - The long arm of the Ministry of Education pulls a Jewish teacher from his classroom. - March 1933 (Issue #12)

Title: Away with him.

The long arm of the Ministry of Education pulls a Jewish teacher from his classroom.

March 1933 (Issue #12) Caricatures from "Der Stürmer"

Source: German Propaganda Archive

Don't be lulled, people. What is happening right before our eyes is exactly what we see is happening.









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11 posted on 04/24/2005 9:34:34 AM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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