Joy Harjo’s case revealed once again the true face of the well-orchestrated boycott campaign being waged in recent years around the world against Israel – often with the help of Israelis – to pull the rug out from under Israel’s legitimacy, its institutions and its society. This is a campaign that relies primarily on intimidation of many people overseas who are not proficient in the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, using half-truths and whole lies that are constantly presented as facts. It is also difficult not to notice the paradox, in which Israeli academics, with the backup of self-proclaimed “peace NGO’s,” promote the boycott of academic institutions while they still educate generations of Israeli students and scholars, the future of the Jewish state.
I cannot help but wonder how those hypocritical lecturers and academics manage to sleep at night, while mine and my fellow students’ tuition is funding their excessive salaries as they’re invited to speak for the sake of the boycott at panels and events around the world, in order to harm with their vicious activity the institutions of the “notorious Zionist entity”- the same one that does not forget to pay them every month.