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Questo č il frutto di una democrazia antisemita: bombardiamo Blackpool,
culla del negazionismo!
U.K. lecturers' union approves academic boycott of Israel
By Tamara Traubmann, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies
The largest university and college lecturers' union in Britain on Monday
voted in favor of a motion recommending that its members boycott Israeli
academics and institutions that do not publicly declare their opposition
to Israeli policy in the territories.
The motion passed with 106 in favor and 71 against. There were 21
abstentions.
The 69,000-member National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher
Education (NATFHE) debated the proposal for the boycott at its annual
conference in the northern English city of Blackpool. Two parts of the
motion passed with a show of hands while a third went to a vote. Under the
boycott, union members also will not submit articles to Israeli research
papers.
According to the British newspaper the Guardian, a series of petitions by
academics against the motion only strengthened the resolve of the union
members to see it pass.
On Saturday, the Guardian published a letter signed by over 600 academics
calling for the motion to be dropped.
The NATFHE president, John Wilkin, also received a petition with 4,725
signatures from Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, an American
organization whose mission statement includes encouraging academics "to
develop effective responses to the ideological distortions, including
anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist slanders..."
"I have received literally thousands of emails seeking to 'educate' me on
the foolishness of our stance in support of the rights of Palestinians,"
Paul Mackney, the secretary general of the union said at the association's
annual national conference Saturday.
"Many emails berate threats to deny academic freedom for Israeli
professors but fail to mention that academic freedom in Palestine is a
hollow joke. Even where staff and students are allowed freedom of movement
to attend university, the material basis for a functioning academic life
barely exists."
Mackney said that more Palestinians than Israelis have been killed since
September 2000, the unemployment rate is higher among Palestinians and 185
Palestinian schools have been shelled or fired at, compared to one Israeli
school.
"In the face of such injustice," he said, "Palestinian civil society,
including the universities, needs support and solidarity as never before,
and I will not be bullied into silence."
Mackney also rejected charges that an academic boycott of Israel is
anti-Semitic.
"Criticizing the Israeli government does not make me anti-Semitic, any
more than criticizing Bush and Blair makes me anti-Anglo-Saxon," he said.
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Questo č il frutto di una democrazia antisemita:
No. Solo di un pugno di coglioni, alcuni dei quali probabilmente
antisemiti.
-Stefano

Stefano De Cesari ha scritto:
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Visto che loro motivano il boicottaggio, tu in base a cosa emetti questa
pregevole sentenza?
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Visto che loro motivano il boicottaggio,
Tutti i coglioni hanno "motivi" per esserlo, almeno a sentir loro :)
Anche tu, vero? :D
-Stefano