[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?

[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.

[dennisw]

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