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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4472169.stm

Они будут бойкотировать Хайфский и Бар-Иланский университеты.

Гениально. Особенно Хайфский, который вообще является филиалом Бир-Зейта.

Date: 2005-04-25 12:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parzia.livejournal.com
Гады они.

Date: 2005-04-25 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parzia.livejournal.com
Страна напавшая на Ирак, без особого повода, не имеет морального права, бойкотировать Израиль.

Date: 2005-04-25 02:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shelblog.livejournal.com
Мне кажется что это пережиток советского мышления - речь идет не о стране а о профсоюзе университетстких преподавателей. Это достаточно левая организация - в Англии (как и везде наверное) academics в целом народ свободолюбивый и как правило не питающий особенной любви к bully boys - будь то Буш, Блер или Шарон.

Date: 2005-04-25 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] irene221b.livejournal.com
>свободолюбивый

И как же это сочетается с академическим бойкотом?

Date: 2005-04-25 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shelblog.livejournal.com
Свободолюбивый академнарод высказал свое свободное мнение - что то что происходит в Израиле - это colonializm and racism и что они не хотят иметь никаких дел с теми кто этому процессу способствует. Заявление достаточно сильное и максималистское - но это проявление левизны академического сообщества. Почему они не имеют права на такую акцию?

Date: 2005-04-25 02:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] irene221b.livejournal.com
А я нигде не говорила, что они не имеют права, даже морального. :-)

Всего лишь, что имею полное моральное и материальное право считать их придурками.

Уж прости за автоссылку, но Поэтому
гуманитарные факультеты университетов превратились в мрачные,
фанатичные заповедники

Совершенно точно.

Date: 2005-04-25 02:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] igorm.livejournal.com
за год пока Стелла училась я их пощупал с блзкого расстояния. Сборище дармоедов, loser'ов и бездельников.

Врядли,

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В смысле?

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Date: 2005-04-25 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shelblog.livejournal.com
Эт верно :)

А по-поводу ссылки - переведенная там цитата выглядит как замечательный пример "левой" или пользуясь языком источника "интеллигентской" реторики :)))

(no subject)

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Date: 2005-04-25 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shelblog.livejournal.com
P.S. А "моральное право" - это, простите мой французский, чушь собачья,

worth reading

Date: 2005-04-25 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] panikowsky.livejournal.com
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001150.html

(very interesting blog of a British Jewish journalist, who, for a change, doesn't hate Israel)

Re: worth reading

Date: 2005-04-25 02:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] irene221b.livejournal.com
Oh, I know her. She is a very good journalist, but she doesn't exist from the "intellectual elite" point of view, cause she writes for Daily Mail.

Re: worth reading

Date: 2005-04-25 03:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shelblog.livejournal.com
Sorry, but I cannot but quote: " as a reason for this action the ‘appalling’ restrictions by the Israeli authorities on the academic freedom of his Palestinian colleagues who were prevented from moving freely between universities in the territories. No mention by Rose, of course, of the 50-year Arab war against Israel and the systematic mass murder of Israeli citizens by Palestinians — the only reason for those restrictions being applied."

The whole idea of justifying the restrictions of freedom of a person based on his/her nationality and the crimes commited by extremist groups of the same nationality - nazi delight with a bit of xenophobia and just a touch of fresh fascism. Honestly, I'm glad it's just Daily Mail and therefore can be filed under "weird people can be found in any country" and forgotten.

Full circle

Date: 2005-04-25 03:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] irene221b.livejournal.com
The whole idea of justifying the restrictions of freedom of a person based on his/her nationality and the crimes commited by extremist groups of the same nationality

Oh man... But that's exactly what AUT are doing: restrict academic freedom for ALL the israeli scientists based on their nationality and the "crimes" supposedly commited by other people of the same nationality.

Re: Full circle

Date: 2005-04-25 03:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shelblog.livejournal.com
I'm not saying I want to justify the actions of AUT - I'm saying the whole business is rather laughable since both sides are employing measures they would oppose vigorously, I might say) being on the receiveing end. That's just a great example of how "moral right" can, and in fact does, sharpen both ends of a stick.
This is why when I hear a "morality-based" judgement of a person supporting a cause which can hardly be called moral - I am compelled to retort using the same invalid "morality" arguments. :)

Re: Full circle

Date: 2005-04-25 10:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] panikowsky.livejournal.com
Я не вижу ничего аморального в действиях Израиля по защите своих граждан от арабского террора. Позиция же британских левых действительно аморальна, так как по сути отрицает право Израиля на защиту.

Re: Full circle

Date: 2005-04-26 08:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shelblog.livejournal.com
I would allow myself to disagree with such judgement. Morality is questionable here - by the same logic palestinians are allowed to defend their land from Israel's occupation forces and settlement "pioneers" by all means possible.
Well, let's just stop this discussion, shall we? I can see you point clearly, but I doubt you will have willingness to see mine, so it is getting rather unproductive.

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Re: worth reading

Date: 2005-04-25 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] panikowsky.livejournal.com
Personally, I don't use the words "intellectual elite" - too much honor for them; I use more precise term "pseudoliberal morons" ;)

Date: 2005-04-26 02:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] israelit.livejournal.com
Наверное, потому, что это самые слабые университеты. Сильных боятся.
Что интересно, палестинцы были против (http://www.sedmoykanal.com/news.php3?id=82741);-)
From: [identity profile] irene221b.livejournal.com
Что же такое сказал Илан Папе, что его выгоняют из борделя за разврат? :-)
From: [identity profile] panikowsky.livejournal.com
Кстати этот говнюк (pardon my French) как раз и работает в Хайфском университете!

Date: 2005-04-26 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] israelit.livejournal.com
http://www.mignews.com/news/scandals/world/260405_111706_23475.html

Brilliant!Brilliant! (sorry, couldn't resist)

Date: 2005-04-28 10:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] panikowsky.livejournal.com
The resistance broadens
The resistance is growing, as the list of decent people prepared to put their heads over the parapet to fight the AUT boycott lengthens. In the Evening Standard last night, Howard Jacobson wrote a brilliant and blistering piece in which he said he had finally come to acknowledge that anti-Zionism was antisemitism, a conflation he had hitherto resisted:

‘I don’t think Jews, by virtue of their victimisation in the past, have any right to expect exemption from the usual rough and tumble of opinion. And I don’t consider it a mark of ill-will towards Israel — indeed it might well denote the very opposite — to oppose its policies when they are inhumane. It is important to hammer in this nail. No, no and no again, I do not accuse all those who censure Israel of hating Jews. Which nail hammered, it is equally important to drive in another. In the boycott by the Association of University Teachers, what has been expressed is not criticism or censure but vilification.’

This is indeed the crucial distinction. As Jacobson goes on to say, it is the singling out of Israel for condemnation while ignoring those countries where racism and infringements of human rights are endemic which gives the game away:

One thing is clear: in the case of Israel, as in countless instances in Jewish history, an exception has been made of Jews…the vilification of Israel of which the academic boycott is but the latest example rests upon contextlessness, Israel’s every act an unprovoked aggression, at every turn the doer and not the done to, all mention of war waged by the other side expunged. Here too I recognise the age-old strategies of antisemitism… Like the Jews who founded it in their image Israel — alone among nations — stands outside history. But then for Sue Blackwell the argument of history is only circular anyway. It is no defence of Israel that it has had to fight against being driven into the sea, because the sea, in her view, is where it belongs’.

Susan Bassnett, professor of comparative literature at Warwick University, writes in today’s Independent:

‘Last week's vote by the Association of University Teachers for an academic boycott of two Israeli universities was a long time coming. A small group of fanatical anti-Israeli lobbyists had been pressing for it for some time. When I heard the news, I found it hard to decide whether I was sad, angry or simply contemptuous. It is sad that supposedly intelligent people (one's academic colleagues) can be so closed-minded as to suppose that boycotting their fellows in another country is going to achieve anything. One feels contemptuous for the bigotry of these people and their refusal to understand that academic boycotts are discriminatory, racist and offensive to fair-minded individuals. I felt angry at the stupidity of it all, and at the boycotters' ignorance of history.’

From: [identity profile] irene221b.livejournal.com
Я от статьи Говарда Якобсона вчера тащилась весь вечер, уж простите за выражение. Но у этой идиотской газеты нет нормального сайта. А статья действительно великолепная.

Кстати, у тетки, которая организовала этот бойкот, такой вебсайт, что ее университет попросил перенести его на другой хостинг.

Date: 2005-04-28 10:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] panikowsky.livejournal.com
However, a word of warning has been rightly sounded that some of the anti-boycotters on the left are in danger of recycling some of the very prejudices of those they are opposing. Harry’s Place has expressed support for a new web grouping called Engage which argues:

‘We should be making more links, not fewer, with the Israeli academics who are doing good work and who are resisting the racist culture of the Israeli right. Engage opposes Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. We are in favour of the foundation of a Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel. We do not believe that Israel is an ‘illegitimate state’. We are for reconciliation between Israeli Jews and Palestinians.’

This prompted a thoughtful response from Judy Keiner, who warns:

‘Engage sounds like a great response to the AUT boycott—till you start to think about what it actually stands for. Actually, it ends up buying into the same game as the boycotters.

‘Like the boycotters’ demand that Israeli academics who want to escape the boycott declare themselves against the racist policies of their universities/the Israeli state etc, Engage starts from a declaration of being against the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Why should this be thought necessary in action against a boycott?

'Then there’s the declaration that they want to make more links with “the Israeli academics who are doing good work and who are resisting the racist culture of the Israeli right”. And it kindly agrees that Israel is not an illegitimate state. So that’s OK then. Instead of branding whole universities and a whole country racists, Engage confidently declares the whole of the Israeli right racists. And doesn’t tell us where the right starts and ends. Or how it is that there’s presumably a racism free space to the left of it.

‘Engage declares itself as standing against anti-semitism. How strange then that the statement by implication places all the opprobrium it cares to mention in the Israel-Palestinian conflict as resting on Israel-as-occupier and the Israeli right. It seems that Engage’s fight against anti-semitism is limited to the UK, and not for export to the Palestinian territories. No mention at all of the place of Hamas, which openly proclaims the validity of the Protocol of the Elders of Zion on its website, argues for the elimination of Israel and all Jews who emigrated there, and is a major political force in the Palestinian territories and especially in those
Palestinian universities calling for the boycott. No mention of the role of Palestinian terrorism, exterminism and rejectionism, underpinned by anti-semitism. No mention of the fact that Israeli universities offer academic freedom to Jews, Arabs, Christians, Muslims and everyone else. No mention of the lack of academic freedom in Palestinian universities for people to advocate the sort of pro-Israel activism corresponding to pro-Palestinian activism found in Israeli universities. Or do they honestly believe that the party line represents the thinking of all Palestinian intellectuals?

‘It seems to me that Engage wants to go on playing the old anti-semitic game of sorting Jews into "good" Jews and "bad" Jews. Only it doesn’t go as far as the boycotters in drawing the line round the bad Jews. And of course, it wants to demonstrate loud and clear that it stands with and amongst only the good Jews.’

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