Summabitches Vote to Boycott Israel Universities

Academic Anti-Semitism In Britain According to The National Review Online , the leading scholars at Britain's most prestigious universities are boycotting the work of Israeli academics in an attempt to lobby peace in the Middle East.

More than 4,900 of you answered our call to protest an anti-Israel boycott proposed by NATFHE, a British teacher's union.

I'm sorry to say that despite this overwhelming show of support for the Jewish state, NATFHE this weekend passed a resolution recommending that its members boycott Israeli academics. It is a bigoted measure that violates every principle of fair play and academic freedom. From Stand with Israel, mobilizing Christian support for Israel - bless these folks.

May they burn in hell. Really.

Phyillis Chesler writes a devastating essay on Academic Anti-Semitism,  Boycotting Israeli scholars in Britain’s universities here at the NRO;

The British have a marred history in their relations with the Jews. They murdered and expelled them from their island in the 13th century, and they refused to allow ships filled with Jews in flight from Hitler to land in British “Palestine” in the 20th century.

Although Britain once colonized the entire Arab world, British poets and adventurers romanticized Arab men as nobly and sexily savage. British diplomats and businessmen overlooked Arab barbarism for the sake of oil. Politically correct British intellectuals romanticized Arabs in another way, as the “victims” of European colonialism—for which they blamed, you guessed it, the Jews and the Jewish state. Sometimes, such Stalinized and Palestinianized British thinkers managed to note that Arabs were ruled by cruel despots who impoverished and terrorized their own people—but they blamed it on the American CIA.

In 2000, the Arab League, Iran, and the Palestinians unleashed a savage and lethal intifada against Israeli civilians, 80 percent of whom are Jews whose parents and grand-parents survived pogroms, the Holocaust, mass expulsion from Arab lands and at least five or six wars of self-defense in Israel. From the fall of 2000 until the late spring of 2003, Israelis experienced something akin to 9/11 almost every month, sometimes every other week. This is why they built the security fence, called by some the “apartheid wall.” Allegedly civilized “chatterers” characterized Israelis under siege as “worse than Nazis” whose “genocidal policies” justified the rash of Palestinian serial suicide killings. Such academics did not condemn the exterminationist Islamist propaganda which turned countless adolescents into brainwashed, brutal killers.

British academics responded to the military, terrorist, and propaganda war against the Jews by launching divestment and boycott campaigns against Israel in general and against Israeli academics in particular. Thus, in 2002, 123 British academics published an Open Letter in the London Guardian calling for a “moratorium” on all cultural and research links with Israel. In 2004-2005, the British Association of University Teachers (AUT)—which has never moved to boycott academics from countries such as China, Iran, or Sudan—voted to boycott two Israeli universities for their alleged complicity in their government's military policies. After a tremendous struggle, that vote was overturned.

Similar divestment and boycott campaigns against Israel—and only against Israel—were launched elsewhere. Ford Foundation-funded organizations took part in conferences that demonized Israel and America from the Palestinian point of view. In 2005, the Association of American University Professors (AAUP) found that “the Zionist lobby” exerted a “pernicious” influence against Arabs and Muslims on American campuses. Early in 2006, two professors, Harvard’s Stephen Walt and the University of Chicago’s Charles Mearsheimer heartily agreed. Their shoddy position paper was comprehensively and effectively critiqued, which, in the view of their supporters, proved that the “Zionist lobby” really does rule the world.

A “silent” boycott has already begun in which some British academics have refused to write for Israeli journals and refused to publish or review the work of Israeli academics and creative artists in British journals. In my view, those who do so have effectively cut themselves off from the international community of scholars. According to the president of SPME, Ed Beck, “this boycott offends tolerant and fair-minded people from across the political spectrum.”

The NATHFE boycott motion passed by a vote of 106 to 71 with 21 abstentions.T  This is a very small number, and it may be that they speak for a minority of obsessively like-minded academics. In addition, next week, NATHFE will dissolve and merge with another British union (AUT). At that point, this boycott may no longer legally “count.”

It counts as a propaganda victory for intolerance nonetheless. And it appeases Islamism and bring Europe one step closer to becoming Eurabia—which endangers both America and Israel. Read it all

I have covered Chesler's work extensively in the Atlas sphere, listen to my interview with her here.

—Phyllis Chesler PhD is an emerita professor of psychology and women’s studies and the author of 13 books including Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman and The New Anti-Semitism. Her forthcoming book is titled The Islamization of America. She is on the board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. She may be reached through her website www.phyllis-chesler.com.

UPDATE: Amber, The War in America  weighs in here

UPDATE: More Jew hating boycott;

CUPE on Israel: The Echoes of Dark Evils

The next time labour leaders in Canada want to know why there is such antipathy to their agenda in many quarters, they need look no further than the Canadian Union of Public Employee’s Ontario wing. This past weekend some 896 delegates representing 200,000 workers voted in convention to pass a resolution boycotting Israel, a social democracy with the most unionized political jurisdiction in the world.

With all of labour’s supposed grievances, why the urgency on this issue? Because according to CUPE(Ont.) Israel does not " recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination." Let us put aside the fact that Israel was the only country to recognize the future Arab state of Palestine after partition in 1947; put aside the fact that within one week of the 1967 war when Israel defended itself from invasion by five Arab states and still offered total withdrawal and recognition in return for peace and was greeted with the Arab states’ Khartoum resolution of “No negotiation; no recognition; no peace”; put aside the fact that Israel has recognized Palestinian self-determination at Oslo, at Madrid and at Camp David and been refused each time by Palestinian leadership; what makes this resolution so egregious in nature - such an affront to truth and transparency - is that it comes at a time when the Palestinian Authority’s own President has challenged the Hamas government to renounce violence and recognize Israel or face a referendum. President Abbas’ own actions put the lie to the pretense that this CUPE (Ont.) initiative was done in the tradition of labour’s fight for universal social justice. The Palestinians don’t question Israel’s acceptance of their right to self-determination. They question only their own capacity to manifest it.

It’s time to call a spade a spade. CUPE (Ont.)’s action is, at worst, a primordial example of a hypocrisy unmasked revealing the true face of anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, and, at best, a knee-jerk Canadian antipathy to any American ally. An antipathy that at its heart is fuelled by a self-doubt driven by a jealousy of others self-belief.

 

Comments

[hugh59]

Kinda makes me wish we left the Brits to the tender mercies of the FUCKING NAZIS back in the 1940s!

[photoncourier.blogspot.com]

hugh...I wouldn't necessarily assume that this is mainly about Brits being anti-Israel...rather, it's about leftist academics being anti-Israel. There are plenty of the same ilk right here in the USA.

I increasingly wonder if it's possible for a society to survive once them number of college professors passes a certain threshold.

[Underzog]

Maybe the Brits never forgave the Jews for taking them seriously when they promulgated the Balfour Declaration back in 1917. Of course, the British completely betrayed the Jews after that with their notorious 1939 White Paper which blocked Jews trying to flee Europe from entering the land they promised to them back in 1917 :-|

There's no need to fear; Underzog is here!"