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For first time, U.S. professors call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel
Arutz 7 ^ | 1-29-09 | Raphael Ahren

Posted on 01/29/2009 1:55:54 PM PST by Nachum

In the wake of Operation Cast Lead, a group of American university professors has for the first time launched a national campaign calling for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

While Israeli academics have grown used to such news from Great Britain, where anti-Israel groups several times attempted to establish academic boycotts, the formation of the United States movement marks the first time that a national academic boycott movement has come out of America. Israeli professors are not sure yet how big of an impact the one-week-old movement will have, but started discussing the significance of and possible counteractions against the campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; academic; boycott; israel; leftismoncampus; professors
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To: Mr. Mojo

Well, fortunately for American Jews, they aren’t surrounded by mulitiple countries of radicalized muslims and nation-states controlled by the same.


21 posted on 01/29/2009 2:23:57 PM PST by rbmillerjr (Colin Powell types begged for McCain moderates and then voted Democrat.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
The campaign was founded by a group of 15 academics, mostly from California. .... "Within a short weekend since the posting of the press release, more than 80 academics from all over the country have endorsed the action

It's time for the sleeping giant (that's us) to break out the writing pad and pen, and start flooding university management, and their donors, with short and sweet to-the-point letters and faxes concerning the behavior of their employees. We have looked the other way for too long. The time for silence is over. Way over. imo.

22 posted on 01/29/2009 2:35:00 PM PST by blueplum
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

I want to see the names.


23 posted on 01/29/2009 2:39:24 PM PST by Hildy
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To: Nachum

Obama


24 posted on 01/29/2009 2:42:56 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Nachum
There are less than 13 million Jews and Israelis left in the world and billions and billions of people all around the world are still PO’d about them and want them all dead.

Such a brave, brave world. A world full of cowardly anti-Semites.

I once joked that if all the Jews in the world got together, bought an Island like Tasmania, far, far away from the rest of the world and all moved there, the Arabs, Muslims and all the other anti-Semites would start building boats and ships to go after them, try to take their island away from them and kill them all.

All the leftists and Islamofascists would still be PO’d at the poor Jews.

As a percentage of the world population, those who happen to be Jewish have contributed a disproportionate amount of creativity to all of the arts, science, medicine, economics and so many other fields. The rest of the world must be so jealous or envious that they have to hate the Jews.

25 posted on 01/29/2009 2:51:38 PM PST by garyhope (Barack Hussein Obambi, Marxist traitor and the end of America and Western civilization)
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To: Nachum

And I’m calling for a boycott of US professors.

These are the people who are educating your kids. And you pay for it.

When the more time you spend under their tutelage, the more likely you are to be screwed up, its time to find alternatives.


26 posted on 01/29/2009 2:53:44 PM PST by marron
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To: Dallas59

Well, liberal (and Israel hating) college professors have an effect on our young people and those young people are soaking it up. We should be concerned.


27 posted on 01/29/2009 2:55:14 PM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: garyhope

They should do it. They’d have 4 times the territory they do now.

Israel is almost exactly the size of the county I live in.


28 posted on 01/29/2009 2:55:41 PM PST by marron
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To: Nachum

Anti-Semitism never really passed out of fashion; for a while, after the Nazi excesses of World War II, it was simply whispered. Now, with the horrors of the Holocaust fading from memory, once again it’s okay to be openly anti-Semitic, and those who were once so on the QT are now becoming increasingly brazen about it.


29 posted on 01/29/2009 2:56:43 PM PST by Jack Hammer (here)
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To: Hildy
U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

Contacts:

Sherna Berger Gluck, shernagluck [at] gmail.com
Jess Ghannam, jess.ghannam [at] gmail.com
David Lloyd, davidcll [at] usc.edu
and Sunaina Maira, smaira [at] ucdavis.edu
These were published on the site.

I'd like to find a way to get these people fired.

30 posted on 01/29/2009 2:58:09 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum
Oh, this is significant. An single English professor and 14 professors of Women's Studies and Afro-Cultural studies, no doubt (that's why they don't mention the departments of the others).

So many egghead leftist academics, so little hemlock...

31 posted on 01/29/2009 3:01:08 PM PST by Starfleet Command
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To: garyhope
I was at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem about a month ago. In all of recorded history, the Museum could find 20,000 people who actually defended Jews from attack.

The world has always been a dangerous place for Jews. -And the world hates it when Jews fight back.

32 posted on 01/29/2009 3:03:42 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Starfleet Command

Oh I am sure that there are much more. They just don’t feel brave enough to attack- ...yet.


33 posted on 01/29/2009 3:05:06 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

I’m going to send Sherna Gluck Melanie Morgan’s brilliant article about self-hating Jews.


34 posted on 01/29/2009 3:09:00 PM PST by Hildy
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To: Nachum

Are they going to stop reading articles and consuming technology produced on Weizmann and Technion? Just wondering.


35 posted on 01/29/2009 3:09:51 PM PST by Moose Burger
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To: rbmillerjr

Considering you make no reference to any other ethnic or racial group that votes overwhelming Democrat (blacks and Catholics are okay voting Democrat, but Jews...)

I can only assume that you have got a ‘problem’ with ‘da Jooooos’.


36 posted on 01/29/2009 4:24:00 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: garyhope

It does not come as a suprise that those professors hate Israel, they also hate the United States.
And you are right on target that the Jews have contributed so much, to be so few.
One of my all time favorite books is titled:
“What the Church Owes the Jew.” Written by Dr. Leslie B. Flynn, a former 40 year pastor at Grace Baptist Church in Nanuet, New York.

P.S. I’m not a Baptist, nor a Jew, and I have never meet Dr. Flynn. nor been to the Church; but I highly applaud the message in this book.


37 posted on 01/29/2009 5:05:34 PM PST by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward. (Anonyous)
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To: gogogodzilla

LOL. Now, that is some serious reasoning ability you have there. Did you do it all on your own?

Oh, wait, this is a thread on Israel, I didn’t realize there were a lot of Blacks and Catholics in Israel.


38 posted on 01/29/2009 5:48:06 PM PST by rbmillerjr (Colin Powell types begged for McCain moderates and then voted Democrat.)
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To: rbmillerjr

Pretty glaring dodge, there.

Do you blame all the blacks... and all the catholics for their tendency to vote Democrat, the same as you do the Jews?

Having dodged that question makes idle minds wonder.


39 posted on 01/30/2009 4:35:30 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla

Well, I’d give you the truth as to my opinion, which you would find very favorable.

But since you put the innuendo in there that if I didn’t defend myself...I would be a Jew Hater, I’ll just have to let your silly imagination run.


40 posted on 01/30/2009 5:15:27 PM PST by rbmillerjr (Colin Powell types begged for McCain moderates and then voted Democrat.)
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