Acadmic Boycott of Israel? Fair?

Question

UK university organisations are proposing an academic boycott of israeli academics etc. How fair is this? Or is it pure hypocrisy and prejudice?
There seems to be an obsession with Israel amongst leftist academia in the UK, as well as Guardian and Independent readers! I personally feel it has much to do with a post colonial guilt trip, after all israel is western, its a democracy, its like us in a way! While the Arabs are "different" thus the leftist, as always, will support the other side!
Thus it suits their stunted ideology to defend the oppressed against the evil capitalists, as guardianistas and student unions would see it.

Surely it is utterly hypocritical? Wheres the ban on academics from North Korea, Zimbabwe, Iran, Russia, Belorus, Saudi Arabia, Sudan perhaps (well the leftists cant get upset about darfur, because its Arabs slaughtering black africans, nothing to do with their guilt trip eh?).....looks like utter rubbish, when will these people grow up!

Answer 1

Maybe I don't understand the situation. At the end of WW 1 Britain was given responsibility for Palestine by the League of Nations after the break up of the Turkish Empire, not to well know for its adherence to human rights or very shy of slavery even then. A British Prime Minister called Balfour wanted Palestine to be a home for the Jews. rightly or wrongly GB has always been rather pro-Arab so he would not have wanted all or ant Arabs kicked out or oppressed.
The Jews naturally took this up as meaning that they owned the place lock stock and barrel again I do not think they particularly wanted to kick the Arabs out .

Then came dear old Hitler and WW2 and the Holocaust this brought a much different complexion on the matter and to be fair I would not want to return somewhere were I and members of my family had been persecuted and deliberately murdered by the government. so they went to Palestine and were overwhelming the native population and Britain to be fair tried to control the situation and received bad press from Jewish supporters in USA. Eventually Israel was founded by UN in part of Palestine and many of the Arab countries around it swore that they would destroy Israel completely. With the hoocaust in living memory the Isrealis reacted the way you or I would have acted and sought to defend themselves by any means open to them. I do not paint either side as good or bad but each and every cease fire or truce has been brocken and if i say by the Arabs someone else will say the Jews and I do not pretend to know ,but the phrase six one and half a dozen of the other proberbly applies.

It is strange the both the extreem left and right wings are united in there blind hatred of Jews and consequently these so called academics who want to boycott Isreali academics for political reasons betray their stated desire for a free exchange of knowledge

Answer 2

final time I appeared, being the thirty 6th richest u . s . interior the international replaced right into a great ingredient... the place is your source that Israel replaced into initially heavily above that and declined? And in case you have one, that it replaced into led to quite often via the boycott, and not via the international economic disaster? Gaza isn't something new. we've seen it time and time until now. Many wars, many battles with terrorists for the period of peacetime. Terrorists attack, Israel strikes back, terrorists stay put in their deathlock on heavily populated cities and use human shields, then Pallywood and doctored pictures and staged video clips come out and Israel is a monster. there is not any reason to have faith this actual episode is the top of the Israeli economic gadget. The boycott of the Israeli economic gadget has been occurring considering that continually, undergo in recommendations? sixty one years. yet Israel has become an economic miracle besides. A $3 hundred billion GDP from 7 million human beings. Why could the boycott abruptly be tightening its belt now? ----- "That has been led to, quite often, via the international economic droop. yet one in 5 exporters stated that "being Israeli reasons some issues"." One in 5 is rarely substantial. Being Israeli provides them issues, merely like being Iranian could. '"you may probable close down your laptop because of the fact the processor has come from the Intel plant at Qiryat Gat; you may close down your cellular telephone because of the fact Nokia and Sony use Israeli-designed utility; you will could end your Powerpoint presentation because of the fact your memory stick replaced into stepped forward in Israel."' precisely. Israeli products are serendipitious. you will no longer locate Israeli products with a label that reads MADE IN ISRAEL. Israel is massive on the utility and palms industries, between different issues. those are additionally the comparable sort of goods that Muslims are not in all hazard to purchase interior the 1st place besides, because of the fact they're costly. maximum Muslims are damaging and purchase the extra value-effective products, from China or anyplace.

Answer 3

Your arguments are oversimplistic and you don't seem to have investigated reasons for and against an academic boycott against Israeli institutions and affiliated scholars - not the whole of Israel - in depth.

I haven't made up my mind about the boycott. But to my mind you cannot say a nation that promotes apartheid and violent segregation against Palestinians is a democracy.

Or the whole argument "Arab" - different - leftist shows blatant ignorance of political ideology. Know what you are talking about before dropping labels.

Answer 4

I cannot fathom any academic boycott, as it seems the worst, lowliest form of ignorance coming from what should be the world's sources of understanding and intelligence - how is it different than burning all Israeli books at UK universities?

I'm an Israeli and don't ban any country's whole academy, (perhaps maybe Iran). I welcome any Palestinian, Afghan or any scholars who are up to any relevant discussion whether it is politics or stem cell research, even when their fellow citizens plot terrorist attacks.

Answer 5

I am an academic, and active in UCU, and I know nothing about this campaign that is getting all the publicity! I agree it is hypocritical, and problematic in that educational establishments are not responsible for the actions of their government! Suppose this triggers a boycott of UK Colleges because of the Iraq war?

Answer 6

Liberals would be fine with Israel if Netanyahu or Sharon
never took power...

when they felt the Israelis had a tenable labor party
prime minister..Simon Peres..everything had hope for them..

Peace was photo-ops in Time magazine..not anywhere along the West Bank

it's all politics..and the refusal to accept people who think differently then themselves..

so much for liberals and their range of acceptance.

Answer 7

You like hate, "ohyeah". You just troll around Yahoo in other country's sections so you can hate, hate, hate.

Answer 8

i like the boycott. all apartheid states should be boycotted. we must rise up and say no to racial purity laws and apartheid.

Answer 9

You're right.