http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/troy/entry/don_t_ban_mearsheimer_and In the 1890s, a German anti-Semitic preacher named Rector Ahlwardt visited New York. Leading New York Jews begged the police commissioner to block Ahlwardt’s speeches or, at least deny this agitator police protection. “This, I told them, was impossible,”…
read moreAntisemitism has been present in Great Britain for almost a thousand years of recorded history. In the twelfth century, Catholic medieval Britain was a persecutory society, particularly when it came to Jews. It pioneered the blood libel and the church…
read morehttp://rungholt.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/nicht-schon-wieder-2/ Ich mag nicht drüber nachdenken, mag es eigentlich gar nicht wissen, möchte es nicht persönlich nehmen, aber ich kann mir nicht helfen. Der neuerliche Versuch der britischen Akademiker, Israel offiziell zu boykottieren, ist brutal und verletzend und kränkend und…
read morehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/2100428/Israel%27s-ambassador-says-Britian-has-become-a-hotbed-of-radical-anti-Israeli-feeling.html Throughout its modern history, Britain has prided itself on its liberal society, which cherishes human rights and values civil liberties. That pride was well founded, both in the international arena, when Britain stood alone in Europe facing the dark…
read morehttp://www.meriajournal.com/en/asp/journal/2008/june/ryan/index.asp While democracy has proven to be a fragile and elusive form of politics in the modern Arab world, Islamist movements have flourished–ranging from grass-roots pro-democracy activism to militant jihadism and terrorism. Whether Arab politics witnesses more political liberalization in…
read morehttp://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ucu.htm At its annual conference on May 28, 2008, the University and College Union, the largest trade union of academics and related staff in the UK, proposed a vote to reintroduce an academic boycott of Israel. The proposed motion asked…
read morehttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/lorna-fitzsimons-the-ucu-is-wasting-time-and-money-840166.html I was motivated to become politically active at 15, standing for my first elected position specifically to deal with the issue of bullying. I joined the trade-union movement for the same reason: to combat bullying and harassment in the…
read morehttp://lipstadt.blogspot.com/2008/06/antisemitism-in-uk-academic-union-ucu.html The union of academics and professors in the UK, the UCU, which last year tried to initiate a boycott of Israeli academics but was prevented from doing so by its own lawyers which told it that it was illegal,…
read morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/opinion/04friedman.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Ramallah, West Bank When I reported from Israel in the mid-1980s, the big debate here was whether Israel’s settlement-building in the West Bank had passed a point of no return – a point where any serious withdrawal became virtually…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212041467564&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Last Wednesday, the University and College Union Congress, the second in its short history, followed the well-worn path of its inaugural event last year, along with that of its predecessor unions, in proposing a boycott motion against Israeli academics…
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