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5,000 US Profs Endorse 'Ethical' Boycott of Israeli Colleges
newsmax ^ | 12/16/13 | Cathy Burke

Posted on 12/16/2013 10:03:59 PM PST by Nachum

A group representing 5,000 U.S. professors has endorsed an academic boycott of Israeli colleges and universities.

The American Studies Association says it voted for the boycott "as an ethical stance."

"It represents a principle of solidarity with scholars and students deprived of their academic freedom and an aspiration to enlarge that freedom for all, including Palestinians," a Dec. 4 statement said.

According to The New York Times, which reported the boycott Monday, the action — the first time the group has called for an academic boycott of any nation's universities — makes the group the largest of its kind to back a movement aiming to isolate Israel because of its treatment of Palestinians.

The academic group said the boycott doesn't apply to "individual Israeli scholars engaged in ordinary forms of academic exchange," including conferences, lectures, and research.

It justified the boycott, saying it was "warranted given U.S. military and other support for Israel; Israel's violation of international law and U.N. resolutions; the documented impact of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian scholars and students"; and "the extent to which Israeli institutions of higher education are a party to state policies that violate human rights."

"There was an incredible swell of applause and enthusiasm for the speakers who supported the boycott," University of California-Riverside professor David Lloyd told Al Jazeera.

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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Can we get a list now we know we have 5000 unethical professors in the U.S.

Then we could find out where they "teach" and run our own academic boycott of their colleges.

I'd love to see a list showing each college and the percentage of the faculty that are these people. I kinda can guess what some of them might be.

21 posted on 12/17/2013 2:13:27 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: Nachum

“....as an ethical stance.”

Hahahahahahaha.....

What a joke coming from those who espouse the resurgence of World Marxism - and here in the United States, to boot!


22 posted on 12/17/2013 2:15:45 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Nachum
Thie is strange - when I was a student, a large number of my Profs were Jewish.

I think many other schools had lots of Jewish Professors.

Is this NOT the case today?

23 posted on 12/17/2013 3:22:55 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
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To: Nachum

American universities are on welfare. It’s time for academic welfare reform.


24 posted on 12/17/2013 3:29:28 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: Captain Compassion

That would be the pre-schools that teach their students how to put on suicide vests.


25 posted on 12/17/2013 4:22:47 AM PST by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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26 posted on 12/17/2013 4:49:25 AM PST by SJackson (the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
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To: Nachum

Publish that list. I want to hand it to my daughter and son, both of whom are in college.

Forewarned is forearmed.


27 posted on 12/17/2013 4:50:39 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: Nachum

This shows the quality of American Professors.

Is it any wonder our country is in trouble with these a-wipes doing the teaching?

Our colleges have become brainwashing institutes.
We send them out youth and they corrupt them with liberalism.


28 posted on 12/17/2013 4:54:58 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: All

Notice that the vote was also held on a Saturday (Jews cant vote on a Sabbath) and probably was a special snap vote - timed for control of the outcome.

Exact the same tactics were used by the Ontario Federation of Labour in Canada, a few ago, to pass their version.

Less than 50% of the membership were aware of the proposition before the vote.

Contrived.


29 posted on 12/17/2013 5:07:30 AM PST by Doctor DNA (No tag today.)
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To: Nachum; GeronL; Revolting cat!
"It represents a principle of solidarity with scholars and students deprived of their academic freedom and an aspiration to enlarge that freedom for all"

Does this extend to a boycott/divestment of Saudi institutions since they prohibit any non-Islamic theological studies and will seize/destroy privately owned texts?

30 posted on 12/17/2013 6:31:53 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: ConservativeTeen

more on this tenured useless eater...English prof by the way

http://as.cornell.edu/academics/opportunities/diversity-fellowships/cheyfitz.cfm
Eric Cheyfitz is the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University, where he teaches American literatures, American Indian literatures, and federal Indian law. He is the author of three books: The Transparent: Sexual Politics in the Language of Emerson (1981); The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan (1991, 1997); and The (Post)Colonial Construction of Indian Country: U.S. American Indian Literatures and Federal Indian Law, which appears as Part I of his edited volume, The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States since 1945 (2006). In addition to these books he has published numerous essays in the fields of law, literature, cultural and postcolonial studies. His most recent publication is an essay, “What Is A Just Society? Native American Philosophies and the Limits of Capitalism’s Imagination,” which appeared in Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (110:2, Spring 2011), which he also co-edited.

In addition to his scholarly publications, Cheyfitz has been the director of Cornell’s American Indian Program and the faculty coordinator for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at Cornell. He has been an op-ed columnist for the newspaper, Indian Country Today, has appeared in the award-winning documentary film on Western Shoshone land rights, Our Land, Our Life (2007), as well as on public radio, where he has discussed issues of academic freedom, federal Indian law, and Native American literatures. He has served as an expert witness in the academic freedom case of Ward Churchill, and in cases involving Indian rights. Throughout his career, his focus has been to connect his scholarship and teaching to progressive social action.


31 posted on 12/17/2013 6:55:19 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Nachum

Shut up and go away. You are bothering the adults.....


32 posted on 12/17/2013 8:49:42 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign is for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: Nachum; Yehuda; ari-freedom; NYC GOP Chick; firebrand; juliej; rmlew; GOPJ; oswegodeee; Inyokern; ..
Ex-Harvard president and former Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers slammed the boycott on the "Charlie Rose" show, saying the boycott singled out Israel and was "anti-Semitic in effect."

"My hope would be that responsible university leaders will become very reluctant to see their university's funds used to finance faculty membership and faculty travel to an association that is showing itself not to be a scholarly association but really more of a political tool," Summers said on the Dec. 10 program.

Well said by Larry Summers. Democrats with sanity might be an endangered species, but this shows they aren't quite extinct yet. But note that Summers is out of government now.

33 posted on 12/17/2013 10:50:00 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: ConservativeTeen
(yes, that Angela Davis),
Angie baby, you're a special lady:

Kinda looks like Whoopi Goldberg on Quaaludes.
34 posted on 12/17/2013 11:38:47 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Nachum

That’s 5,000 knuckleheads that the Israelis will not have to put up with.


35 posted on 12/17/2013 11:54:49 AM PST by Daveinyork (IER)
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To: Nachum

Educators in this country are leftist idiots...for the most part. The others are silenced.


36 posted on 12/17/2013 11:58:06 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: Nachum

That’s where academic leadership has gone along with business and political leadership.


37 posted on 12/17/2013 12:02:18 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: justiceseeker93

They feel really good about themselves for doing this. Therefore, it’s the right thing to do./sarc


38 posted on 12/17/2013 1:13:05 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Nachum

I say we boycott their colleges and universities. Where’s the list?


39 posted on 12/17/2013 2:41:08 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Nachum

Making a list, checking it twice ....

Now we know who the enemies of Israel are in academia. Need to get the complete list and send it around.

I will, to my synagogue and people I know in other Jewish organizations.

Would be nice to cut into alumni donations to these academic cesspools of antisemitism.


40 posted on 12/17/2013 3:56:43 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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