Posted on 12/16/2013 10:03:59 PM PST by Nachum
A group representing 5,000 U.S. professors has endorsed an academic boycott of Israeli colleges and universities.
The American Studies Association says it voted for the boycott "as an ethical stance."
"It represents a principle of solidarity with scholars and students deprived of their academic freedom and an aspiration to enlarge that freedom for all, including Palestinians," a Dec. 4 statement said.
According to The New York Times, which reported the boycott Monday, the action — the first time the group has called for an academic boycott of any nation's universities — makes the group the largest of its kind to back a movement aiming to isolate Israel because of its treatment of Palestinians.
The academic group said the boycott doesn't apply to "individual Israeli scholars engaged in ordinary forms of academic exchange," including conferences, lectures, and research.
It justified the boycott, saying it was "warranted given U.S. military and other support for Israel; Israel's violation of international law and U.N. resolutions; the documented impact of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian scholars and students"; and "the extent to which Israeli institutions of higher education are a party to state policies that violate human rights."
"There was an incredible swell of applause and enthusiasm for the speakers who supported the boycott," University of California-Riverside professor David Lloyd told Al Jazeera.
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You’re right - sane democrats are an endangered species.... Thanks for the ping.
You’re right - sane democrats are an endangered species.... Thanks for the ping.
I am not impressed....there are 1.5 million faculty in the US, subtract 5 thousand nutcases from planet Uranus and you still have 1,455,000 that told the boycott to shove it. What a joke...
Perhaps it would be easier on the good folks at the ASA if we made those Israeli academics wear armbands with a Star of David on them.
Perhaps they could sew it on their coats, so that we’d know who to boycott.
Sick, freakin’ people.
I know EXACTLY how the holocaust happened.
You know, in the 1930’s, Germany was the most educated country on the planet?
This is the country that tried to exterminate a race.
Margaret Sanger, a German, described blacks and jews as weeds of the human race.
Professor Chafitz would have had the best bunk in the concentration camp, with real food and heat.
All those dead Jews and he learned NOTHING.
It could be said that Summers is sane, but it could also be said that he is inconsistent. Did he really expect the Left to boycott all those other countries targeted by the Communists but leave Israel alone?
Actually, Margaret Sanger was an American.
Racist Eugenics was favored by the American elites at that time. Hitler imported this idea from the U.S., along with Bernay's propaganda technique, GM and Colt weapons, and IBM machines to count the result.
After WWII, some 10,000 German Nazi war criminals settled in the U.S. establishing NSA, staffing NASA, and other agencies.
Massive data gathering on the entire population was attempted by NSDAP and perfected by NSA.
Hitler's Germany was defeated, not the Nazism.That's why this ASA initiative is dangerous.
We are living in a time when lies have pushed out facts in the halls of “higher” education. Tragic. Israel is the most humane society one can find on the fact of the globe. It’s military go to greater lengths than any on the globe to avoid civilian harm. And the jealous onlookers can’t stand their success in the areas of technology, arts, medicine, agriculture, literature, the arts. The green with jealously Left make themselves feel better by making up stories from whole cloth and putting up absurd votes in academic organizations. Stupid is as stupid does and these academics are narrower in mind and less interested in facts than any other group around. The man on the street has more common sense than “march in lock step” academics today. If Islam gets its way, the Leftist academics will find themselves in dire situations, wondering what happened. Their being useful idiots won’t help them a bit.
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