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April 25, 2005

Jew-hatred in England - front and center

via Charles Johnson comes this post from Melanie Phillips about the monstrous and evil boycott of Israeli academics by the British Association of University Teachers. It is breathtaking to consider that the AUT deliberately timed its vote for the start of the Jewish Sabbath and Passover as to wipe out any rebuttal or debate from Jews.

It passed a motion calling for a boycott of two Israeli universities, Haifa and Bar Ilan, which it accused of being complicit in the abuse of Palestinians in the occupied territories, and agreed to circulate a Palestinian call for a total university boycott.

The targeted Israeli institutions have denied the specific charges. They were given no opportunity to put their case; indeed, a request from Bar Ilan to send someone to do so at the conference was turned down. This was not surprising to anyone who has grasped what is going on here. For it was not these universities which were on trial, but Israel itself. And for the stupid and vicious people who now pass for our intelligentsia, Israel is a pariah nation — an ‘apartheid state’ — simply because the Arabs who are trying to exterminate it say that this is so.

Make no mistake that this is about "Israeli policies, not Jews." As the Guardian reports:
The woman behind a divisive vote today to boycott Israeli universities has brushed aside criticism of the proposals, saying it is impossible to treat that country's academics as "normal citizens from a normal state".

Sue Blackwell, a Birmingham lecturer, who is launching her second attempt to secure a national boycott of Israeli academia, said that, if successful, the move would increase the pressure on the "illegitimate state of Israel".

Israel, a tiny democratic state with a Jewish culture in a sea of hostile dictatorships publically commited to its destruction because Jews are "pigs and monkeys" -- and here British "academics" declare Israel an "illegitmate state."

I have not, and will not, accept the fiction that anti-Israel is not anti-Semitic. The Brit anti-Semites are dropping the figleaf quite publicly so let's not hear it again, shall we?

Posted by Darleen at April 25, 2005 09:06 AM

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