Anti-Semites Are Cruising For A Bruising

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It would be nice if some notable American schools boycotted these anti-semite Brits.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/308683p-264136c.html

Anti-Semites are cruising for a bruising

Brit teachers' boycott spurs a new turf war

Just before he left to join the Coast Guard in 1942, Cousin Willy gathered us Jewish kids together to instruct us on how to deal with anti-Semitism.
"Kiss first, talk later," he said. "A guy calls you a dirty Jew, never argue. Drop him on his keester, place your foot on his throat and say, 'Explain.'"

Willy never did college, so he couldn't spell dialogue, but the street taught him well that talk was dead, reason had nothing to do with Jew-baiting.

What brings this fine old lesson to the front is the decision by Britain's leading higher education union to boycott two Israeli universities because of what it called the Jewish state's "apartheid" treatment of Palestinians.

It's a lie reminiscent of Goebbels' and neatly coincides with the Allied liberation of Auschwitz. The Association of University Teachers, representing 49,000 professors, has brought the unbelievable back to the unspeakable.

Israel an apartheid state? Worse even than South Africa? Try to talk facts to these people, fuhgeddaboudit.

The South African whites imposed apartheid on the blacks, who were entirely innocent victims, who never threw a bomb at their oppressors. The Arabs went to war five times against Israel, always with the stated intent to destroy it, and, having failed they refused to recognize the Jewish state, opting for terrorism instead of peace.

Facts all, but none of it means a thing to the British intellectuals. Nor do the logical arguments of those who point out that the teachers' union neglected to act on China or North Korea or all the Arab states who destroy their citizens. Does anyone think that these professors, who know everything, just ask them, know nothing about all these terrorist regimes?

What we are witnessing here is anti-Semitism, straight, no soda. Part of what's happening all over Europe.

So what's the answer? Kiss first, talk later.

Boycott the Brit universities. Don't fool around with discussions about academic freedom, because that ain't the issue. The guys and dolls who pulled this sick deal off want only to turn Israel into Palestine.

It won't happen. But to make sure it doesn't, let's remember this: The only answer to a slap in the face is a kick in the teeth.

Originally published on May 12, 2005

 

[dilloduck]

It would be nice if some notable American schools boycotted these anti-semite Brits.

*tearing up my application to Cambridge*

 

[ScreamingEagle]

It would be nice if some notable American schools boycotted these anti-semite Brits.

You mean like Harvard, Yale, Columbia? Good luck.

 

[Annie]

It would be nice if some notable American schools boycotted these anti-semite Brits.

It appears to be falling apart:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=15839_AUT_Boycott_Falling_Apart#comments

The faculties of Oxford, Warwick and Sussex universities faculty has rejected he boycott of Haifa and Bar Ilan universities by Britain’s Association of University Teachers, reported Israel Radio on Friday morning.

The decision by Oxford faculty to reject the boycott came in advance of the proposed May 26 emergency meeting at which it was expected that the anti-boycott faction would try to overturn the boycott. A source told The Jerusalem Post that the AUT accepted a letter with the required 25 signatures submitted by John Pike of the Open University, calling for the special session, and for a “comprehensive debate of the issue.”

The controversial boycott recently came under fire, not just by pro-Israel groups, but also by British university lecturers and professors.

And Haifa University has threatened to sue the AUT. (Hat tip: Ringo.)

(IsraelNN.com) Haifa University has threatened to sue the British university teachers’ union which recently voted to boycott the Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities. The teachers’ union is to meet soon to reconsider its decision.

Haifa University said that the boycott, which charges the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of Ramat Gan for supporting Israel’s presence in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha), was published on a web site and defamed them. Haifa has been cited for alleged mistreatment of pro-Arab lecturer Ilan Pappe. Different Jewish academic bodies in the United States have sharply criticized the British boycott.