[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Delbrück

University lecturers have voted to boycott two of Israel's eight universities over their alleged complicity with Israeli persecution of Palestinians.

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... four boycott motions is directed against an alleged case of Palestinian land confiscation by the Hebrew University in November 2004. It calls for AUT members to boycott the university "Until it calls a halt to all attempts to confiscate land from Palestinian families."

Hebrew University spokesperson Orit Sulitzeanu responded by saying that the complaints raised against the Hebrew University lack foundation.

Hebrew University denied that the Palestinian families in question have any claim to the contested land.

I wonder whether those pro-Arab (and perhaps in the closet anti semites) leftists would ever do the same to Chinese or Russian universities. Hypocrites.

Of course that Israelis do believe that those Palestinian families have no rights to their land.. who is being hypocritical here?

"We are very flattered," Yehoshua added, "by the expectation that Israel remain unblemished. But there is a great distance between academic dialogue and an academic boycott. If they cared to dialogue with Israeli academics and intellectuals, they would discover how many of them have been struggling for years against the occupation and for recognition of a Palestinian state, even in a very complex situation of war and terror. Perhaps they would realize that part of the positive steps towards resolution of the conflict taken by the Israeli government are the result, in part, of such intellectuals' efforts... "

Isn't it much more hypocritical to attempt to portray Israeli institutions as fighters for the rights of the Palestinians, only because a relatively small number of them have done such claims, while the majority support the seizure of all lands from the Palestinians with official support?

And I imagine that the situation of war and terror that this Yehoshua exposes here is not the situation under which thousands of Palestinian families live.


Maybe there are reasons why Jews maybe concern about this issue:

"Since April 2002, when more than 100 academics demanded a moratorium on European funding of Israeli universities, this disturbing campaign has been picking up steam."