The academic boycott of Israel: Back to 1933?

Jerusalem Post ^ | 1-2-03 | EDWARD ALEXANDER

[SJackson]

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[wideawake]

This whole movement is a real problem.

Israel is not the US or China - it doesn't have an enormous internal market for its best products: software, specialty produce and value-added engineering.

Boycotts could be crippling and seriously undermine Israel's ability to defend itself - analogous to Rhodesia or South Africa.

If this garbage continues, Jews will become like the white farmers - Arafat and Co. are already identical to Mugabe's thugs and worse.

[bandleader]

I wonder how long it will be until it will seem perfectly legitimate(to academics)to hold re-enactments of"Krystal Nacht"??Maybe that time has already come???

[Savage Beast]

Sixty five years after Kristallnacht, anti-semitism florishes in Europe.

Have these people learned anything from history?

"since the Israeli government was 'impervious to moral appeals from world leaders'"

The logical fallacy of "appeal to authority". And a blatant example of Orwellian groupthink.

"World leaders" indeed! The morally and intellectually bankrupt!

"Excluding scholars because of the passports that they carry or because of their skin color, religion or political party, corrupts the integrity of intellectual work"

What a fainthearted, anemic admonition! This is the best this "world leader" can do?

[Stavka2]

Let the W. Euros die off, they deserve Islamic slavery and rape like no other people on earth. Christianity will survive in Eastern Europe and the Orthodox faith will win back the new Caliphs and reunite the church that way. The West is old, corrupt, decedant and lazy. The Orthodox are growing and beginning to recoup, it only a matter of time. I can't wait to hear what these leftists are saying when they are the ones in the Islmaic concentration camps being butchered.

[Samurai_Jack]

Dont these people realize that Isreal is the key to the coming global catastrophe? By villifying isreal they are forcing the tide of history into the arms of prophesy (pardon the mix of metaphors). Ive been watching this unfold since I was a teen, I didn't think they'd do it.

Please ignore this portion of the post if you find it offensive.

From websters...

maranatha

(1 Cor. 16:22) consists of two Aramean words, Maran'athah, meaning, "our Lord comes," or is "coming." If the latter interpretation is adopted, the meaning of the phrase is, "Our Lord is coming, and he will judge those who have set him at nought." (Comp. Phil. 4:5; James 5:8, 9.)

Who is Apoco and why are we concerned with her lips?

[exmarine]

The only way to explain the baffling and irrational bias against Israel by Europe and the rest of the world (U.S. is lone exception...for now), is to view this bias from a spiritual perspective. Hatred of Israel and jews is a historic (jews have been hated and persecuted for 2000 years), perpetual spiritual malady. Such people are delusional and irrational but are blind to the fact. As a Christian, I can tell you that my support of Israel is instinctive and reflexive and irrevocable, and it is also spiritually based. I will also be so bold as to warn the Europeans (and muslims) that Israel shall never fall! Its very existence (one miraculous victory after another over 50 years) is a testament to the spiritual power behind it - God. God has a plan for Israel that will not be thwarted.

Zec 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. Zec 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

[B. Rabbit]

Christianity will survive in Eastern Europe and the Orthodox faith will win back the new Caliphs and reunite the church that way. The West is old, corrupt, decedant and lazy. The Orthodox are growing and beginning to recoup, it only a matter of time. I can't wait to hear what these leftists are saying when they are the ones in the Islmaic concentration camps being butchered.

You do have an interesting mind. Western Europe HAS grown decedant and socialism will always bring about laziness and corruption. The entire continent will either wake up and have decades of making up to do or implode in the next 30 years. What will fill the void? I believe it very easily could be Islam.

[Stavka2]

Aye, but the Islamics will not be able to stand up to the Orthodox. With the fall of W. Europe, most PCness will fall with it. Even America's PCness will not survive the paranoia that will sweep it with the fall. If/when this happens, the Orthodox will march again with no constraints and it will be a bad day to be a Bugger of Allah...the old faiths of Catholicism and Protestanism will have been shown to be a failure and the Orthodox faith will draw the survivors as the Orthodox forces march through the to be short lived caliphs of the W. Euroes.

[wideawake]

The "strange" reason was our own Civil Rights movement.

After the US had finished demonizing its own Southern citizens, helping white people defend their culture and property from hordes of rioting black people anywhere in the world became taboo.

The US is only able to help the Israelis because of the lingering impact of the Holocaust on world consciousness. Without that historical background, few politicans would be able to work up the nerve to defend nation of Europeans surrounded by Third World savages.

[wideawake]

In order for Orthodox forces to march triumphantly across Europe, it might help for Russians to start participating in the Divine Liturgy more often than Poles assist as Mass - something which is not even close to being a reality yet.

[dennisw]

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[Stavka2]

Tell that to the bursting churchs and the lack of priests to meet the high demand of new churchs. Your comment is something I hardly worry about.

[FITZ]

I can't wait to hear what these leftists are saying when they are the ones in the Islmaic concentration camps being butchered.

They're too stupid to realize that under Islam, they'll be the first to be butchered. They're useful to Islam now however so they believe the Muslims are their kind friends.

[xJones]

As a Christian, I can tell you that my support of Israel is instinctive and reflexive and irrevocable, and it is also spiritually based.

I stand with you.

[Stavka2]

Almost as sick as the Jews that went willingly to the concentration camps because they had convinced themselves that no one can be that barbaric. Stupid is as stupid does.

[philosofy123]

The West did not raise a finger when Christians were slaughtered in Sudan! More than 2 millions holocaust and enslavement right under our nose, right today by the Sudan government, and with the support of Moslem nations; including our friends, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, .....I am ashamed that even the US failed miserably to acknowledge the atrocities in the Sudan. We cried very hard for a few hundred Moslems in Bosnia? I mean our secretary of state Madeline Alldim, and the amen crowds in the leftist media. Bosnian Moslems that are essentially members of El Qaeida terror network and the drug smuggling gangs. These worthless thugs were the source of our agony. The worthless Moslem president of Bosnia has awarded Osama bin Laden an HONARY CITIZENSHIP!!!! We are still in Bosnia to protect him from the bad Christians!

60 Minute’s Bob Simon reported on the boys of Sudan that walked for months to get away from being butchered by their government. His attitude during the report was so distanced, and never articulated to the audience that the conflict has started by militant Moslem fanatic government that wanted to impose its Islam on the Christian south. Bob Simon was a disgrace to all reporters. The rest of our population never had a good exposure to the Holocaust that is taking place TODAY under our nose. When Franklin Graham brought this up with George Bush, our media started to bring in the separation of church and state. The Christians lives don't count because of separation of church and state, on the other hand, Moslem lives really count because we have a Christian hating government.