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American Studies Association approves boycott of Israel
Shahar Chai, Reuters
Published: 17.12.13, 00:51
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31. All I can say is WHO CARES? ? ?
Rob ,   Ashqelon, Israel   (12.17.13)
32. #1 tired old argument
Son of Yaffa ,   Palestine   (12.17.13)
33. Where I heard before about boycott, yeah! 1933
Oleg ,   Montreal, Canada   (12.17.13)
Arab money and fear of competition. Nothing new
34. Badge of Honor
Steve ,   dallas USA   (12.17.13)
This is a small, left wing fringe group of professors, almost all in the "social sciences" - not in the hard sciences, who pontificate on subjects like: Latina Lesbian Poetry in Honduran Collectives: Fighting the Phallic Oppression. It is a badge of honor for Israel to be boycotted by these mediocre frauds.
35. #19 " Rain starts with one drop, then the flash flood",
A ,   Belgium   (12.17.13)
and the rats begin to crawl out of their sewers in gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, etc.
36. #30 "u must be a good white blood american."
A ,   Belgium   (12.17.13)
Nothing of the sort! He is an immigrant who, while milking the fat American cow for all its worth, makes little attempt to even learn proper English. He does, however, consider himself an expert on the Middle East, which he quite possibly would not be able to find on a world map.
37. thats about sums it up
adam ,   london   (12.17.13)
"Curtis Marez, the association's president, admitted that Israel's neighbors have worse human rights records than the Jewish State, but he told the New York Times: "One has to start somewhere.""
38. #5 R, As you report from the report...
Mark ,   Lodz, Poland   (12.17.13)
Curtis Marez ''needs to start somewhere".... He could start with the Pilgrim Fathers and the ensuing genocide of the Native Americans based on no European historic connection to the New World UNLIKE the unarguably strong and historic bond between Eretz Israel and the Jewish people.
39. #10 stupid and idiot
BOER ,   Christian   (12.17.13)
don't boher us ,you polute the web.
40. We, Jews, members of a people of 4,000 years of age, have...
N.L.Katz ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (12.17.13)
...endured much worse over the many centuries of our existence as a people, within and without our ancestral homeland of Eretz Israel (Land of Israel). We shall endure this form of collective bigotry as well, despite the fact that it is clothed in an "academic" garment. Let us renew our vow: Never Again!!
41. your flood is muddy
# 19Jewish Palestine ,   lebanon   (12.17.13)
God gave to Jewish what you call "palestine" which is Jewish palestine and rain clean water is turning in muddy water reaching pes where you are staying like a stain on the globus. Your "Palestine" is a myth and a lie and you know that!
42. They are making us remember, we are Jewish.
Miron ,   USA   (12.17.13)
43. One can only use the brains given to them
tiki ,   belgium   (12.17.13)
The honorable members of this college probably didn't receive a big chunk of this very vital mass.
44. American Studies Association approves boycott of Israel
Helen ,   Israel   (12.17.13)
What about the policies of China, Russia, Syria, Lebanon? If we are talking about civil rights then expand the protests to all countries. Such hypocrisy!
45. Eric Hoffer
Michael Redbourn ,   Lisbon Portugal   (12.17.13)
Eric Hoffer: "The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel , the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world."
46. hypocrisy of scholars
gio ,   london   (12.17.13)
I bet they don't boycott China (where Tibetians are being oppressed), Turkey (who captured half of Cyprus), Russia (wide spread nationalism and other breaches of human rights). it is their loss, one day they will see it...
47. Best saying I heard today
johnjames ,   bh   (12.17.13)
"Boycotting Israel from science is like a man starving from hunger boycotting food"
48. #45 Redbourn on Eric Hoffer
Arn ,   Yehud   (12.17.13)
Thanks for that quote from Hoffer's Before the Sabbath. One of America's greatest minds would be light years removed from these shallow ASA fools
49. Harold # 23
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (12.17.13)
You, the ASA and graczek are living proof that "stupid is as stupid does."
50. Where is the Israeli Association for American Studies?
Serge ,   Montreal, Canada   (12.17.13)
And how do we support it?
51. ASA boycott - how to respond
Alon ,   RBS, Israel   (12.17.13)
Get their names and universities and encourage cessation of gifts by their alumni. Since we Jews have all the financial control, per these Lefties, let's use it punish. I bet their provosts will put the heat on them to back off of this in a heartbeat.
52. Scholarly Society of Anti-Semites
Brod ,   USA   (12.17.13)
They are Papists-virulent Anti-Semites. Papism invented Anti-Semitism. Papism is Paganism that persecuted and ravaged Jews and Judeo-Christians for 1260 years starting in 538 AD during the Dark Ages. Hitler was a Papist and so were his Nazis that carried out the mass murders of Jews in the Holocaust in WWII. Israel should expose these dark forces to the world. Hit them back with their horrible dark history. It is time to fight back the dark forces.
53. # 45
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (12.17.13)
That was a wonderful post. Thank you.
54. #45 great comment. Stop
Amos ,   langley, Canada   (12.19.13)
55. You Laughed Five Years Ago At BDS
World Citizen ,   the world   (12.20.13)
Now I see the concern in your posts. I wonder what the next five years will bring?
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