haaretz.com - 1/29/2009
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In the wake of Operation Cast Lead, a group of American university professors has for the first time launched a national campaign calling for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. While Israeli academics have grown used to such news from Great Britain, where anti-Israel groups several ...
michaelyon-online.com - 1/31/2009
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michaelyon-online.com —
Published: 01 February 2009 I heard Benjamin Netanyahu,
the person who could soon become Israel’s new prime...
minister, speak this week at the Jerusalem Conference. The most pressing point that he talked about was that under no circumstances should ...
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How Can the World Be Blind to Israel’s Existential Threats?
normblog.typepad.com - 2/4/2009
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normblog.typepad.com —
This is a post about war crimes in
Gaza and the widespread public outrage over them directed...
at Israel. Since it is a long post, I begin by providing a brief map of what is to follow. In Part 1...
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One-Eyed in Gaza
commentarymagazine.com - 1/27/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
I've just returned from a week-long trip through
Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Israel's border with Gaza, and...
I'm reminded all over again of what has been beaten into me during my many visits to the Middle East: there is no solution to the problems that ...
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The Mother of All Quagmires
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Ignoring your own eyes and ears
Yourish.com —
... Idiots like these California academics, who are trying to start yet another boycott of Israeli academics, insist that it’s the right thing to do, because Israel is being unreasonable. Hamas, they say, is willing to negotiate. Really. ...
THE RACISTS OF ACADEMIA
Dr. Sanity —
I hereby propose that all academics who call for a boycott of Israel be called out for the disgusting racists they are, because somehow, for some obscure reason, despite all their so-called 'progressiveness' and vaunted 'compassion' they have managed to be completely blind to Hamas' blatant anti-semitism, racial bigotry and institutionalized hatred toward Jews. What kind of intellectual and moral blinders do you have to wear not to appreciate this stark reality? Denying the racism of Hamas is no different than denying the racism ...
In Which an Anti-Zionist Pro-Hamas Islamist Delivers a Lecture at Haifa University and Jewish Students Are Barred
Weekly Standard Blog —
... heard within their walls (“We didn't invite him, but in the end, for legal reasons, we had to let him in”) is pretty horrifying, but that’s the downside of life in a liberal democracy: a person devoted to its destruction, even if only ideologically, is free to speak his mind. But permitting the boycotting of Jewish students at an institution of higher learning in the Jewish state, at the behest, presumably, of the anti-Semitic speaker and his audience, and especially at a moment when American and ...
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