Boycott Israel

[Sixties Fan]

And as most academics also understand, allowing BDS does not promote academic freedom in the slightest — quite the opposite, actually.

“You can’t teach people how to think if you teach them what to think,” stated University of Haifa President Prof. Ron Robin earlier this year as he became Chairman of the Committee of University Heads of Israel (VERA).

Preceding his election to VERA, in which he serves as the leading voice for Israel’s academic community on the issue of countering BDS, Robin’s own university found itself on the frontline of the BDS battleground in the U.S.

Following last November’s initial pro-BDS vote by the Pitzer College faculty to suspend its semester exchange program at University of Haifa, Robin and Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver joined forces to condemn the vote and the BDS threat more broadly. It was a key manifestation of Robin’s work with VERA, which he has called a quest to “promote the truths about Israel’s status as the only Middle East society which respects the values of free speech and academic freedom — truths that Israel’s detractors and BDS’s proponents so blatantly disregard.”

Those truths are self-evident at University of Haifa, where Jews and Arabs not only coexist, but thrive alongside one another as students and faculty members. Approximately 35% percent of our students are Arabs of Muslim, Christian and Druze backgrounds. Our Arab and Jewish students are bound together by their love of knowledge and mutual respect. The Arab students “study, work and play beside Jewish students, and this is the epitome of social justice, equality and opportunity for education,” Robin has explained.

(full article online)

Tolerating BDS as ‘Differing Views’ Flips Academic Freedom on Its Head

Where is Israel's exchange program with Palestinian universities? Why can't foreign professors teach in Palestinian universities? Why can't Palestinian students study abroad?

Why does Israel whine about academic freedom while denying it to Palestinians?

Why can’t Jews study in Gaza? Is that because Gaza is Jew-free?

How easy it is to forget how many from Areas A, B and C do go to study and work in Israel.

How easy it is to forget that those in Gaza also got to come and study and work before Arafat started the Intifadas.


Too bad Palestinians. You want death and destruction, you are causing the destruction of your own places, and you deserve exactly what the Germans deserved twice. Who was going to send their children to study in Germany during WWI or II ?

 

[Sixties Fan]

European Flag Football Championship is a touchdown for Jerusalem

 

[P F Tinmore]

And as most academics also understand, allowing BDS does not promote academic freedom in the slightest — quite the opposite, actually.

“You can’t teach people how to think if you teach them what to think,” stated University of Haifa President Prof. Ron Robin earlier this year as he became Chairman of the Committee of University Heads of Israel (VERA).

Preceding his election to VERA, in which he serves as the leading voice for Israel’s academic community on the issue of countering BDS, Robin’s own university found itself on the frontline of the BDS battleground in the U.S.

Following last November’s initial pro-BDS vote by the Pitzer College faculty to suspend its semester exchange program at University of Haifa, Robin and Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver joined forces to condemn the vote and the BDS threat more broadly. It was a key manifestation of Robin’s work with VERA, which he has called a quest to “promote the truths about Israel’s status as the only Middle East society which respects the values of free speech and academic freedom — truths that Israel’s detractors and BDS’s proponents so blatantly disregard.”

Those truths are self-evident at University of Haifa, where Jews and Arabs not only coexist, but thrive alongside one another as students and faculty members. Approximately 35% percent of our students are Arabs of Muslim, Christian and Druze backgrounds. Our Arab and Jewish students are bound together by their love of knowledge and mutual respect. The Arab students “study, work and play beside Jewish students, and this is the epitome of social justice, equality and opportunity for education,” Robin has explained.

(full article online)

Tolerating BDS as ‘Differing Views’ Flips Academic Freedom on Its Head

Where is Israel's exchange program with Palestinian universities? Why can't foreign professors teach in Palestinian universities? Why can't Palestinian students study abroad?

Why does Israel whine about academic freedom while denying it to Palestinians?

Why can’t Jews study in Gaza? Is that because Gaza is Jew-free?

It is Israel who will not allow Jews into Gaza.

 

[P F Tinmore]

And as most academics also understand, allowing BDS does not promote academic freedom in the slightest — quite the opposite, actually.

“You can’t teach people how to think if you teach them what to think,” stated University of Haifa President Prof. Ron Robin earlier this year as he became Chairman of the Committee of University Heads of Israel (VERA).

Preceding his election to VERA, in which he serves as the leading voice for Israel’s academic community on the issue of countering BDS, Robin’s own university found itself on the frontline of the BDS battleground in the U.S.

Following last November’s initial pro-BDS vote by the Pitzer College faculty to suspend its semester exchange program at University of Haifa, Robin and Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver joined forces to condemn the vote and the BDS threat more broadly. It was a key manifestation of Robin’s work with VERA, which he has called a quest to “promote the truths about Israel’s status as the only Middle East society which respects the values of free speech and academic freedom — truths that Israel’s detractors and BDS’s proponents so blatantly disregard.”

Those truths are self-evident at University of Haifa, where Jews and Arabs not only coexist, but thrive alongside one another as students and faculty members. Approximately 35% percent of our students are Arabs of Muslim, Christian and Druze backgrounds. Our Arab and Jewish students are bound together by their love of knowledge and mutual respect. The Arab students “study, work and play beside Jewish students, and this is the epitome of social justice, equality and opportunity for education,” Robin has explained.

(full article online)

Tolerating BDS as ‘Differing Views’ Flips Academic Freedom on Its Head

Where is Israel's exchange program with Palestinian universities? Why can't foreign professors teach in Palestinian universities? Why can't Palestinian students study abroad?

Why does Israel whine about academic freedom while denying it to Palestinians?

Why can’t Jews study in Gaza? Is that because Gaza is Jew-free?

How easy it is to forget how many from Areas A, B and C do go to study and work in Israel.

How easy it is to forget that those in Gaza also got to come and study and work before Arafat started the Intifadas.


Too bad Palestinians. You want death and destruction, you are causing the destruction of your own places, and you deserve exactly what the Germans deserved twice. Who was going to send their children to study in Germany during WWI or II ?

Good deflection.

 

[Sixties Fan]

And as most academics also understand, allowing BDS does not promote academic freedom in the slightest — quite the opposite, actually.

“You can’t teach people how to think if you teach them what to think,” stated University of Haifa President Prof. Ron Robin earlier this year as he became Chairman of the Committee of University Heads of Israel (VERA).

Preceding his election to VERA, in which he serves as the leading voice for Israel’s academic community on the issue of countering BDS, Robin’s own university found itself on the frontline of the BDS battleground in the U.S.

Following last November’s initial pro-BDS vote by the Pitzer College faculty to suspend its semester exchange program at University of Haifa, Robin and Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver joined forces to condemn the vote and the BDS threat more broadly. It was a key manifestation of Robin’s work with VERA, which he has called a quest to “promote the truths about Israel’s status as the only Middle East society which respects the values of free speech and academic freedom — truths that Israel’s detractors and BDS’s proponents so blatantly disregard.”

Those truths are self-evident at University of Haifa, where Jews and Arabs not only coexist, but thrive alongside one another as students and faculty members. Approximately 35% percent of our students are Arabs of Muslim, Christian and Druze backgrounds. Our Arab and Jewish students are bound together by their love of knowledge and mutual respect. The Arab students “study, work and play beside Jewish students, and this is the epitome of social justice, equality and opportunity for education,” Robin has explained.

(full article online)

Tolerating BDS as ‘Differing Views’ Flips Academic Freedom on Its Head

Where is Israel's exchange program with Palestinian universities? Why can't foreign professors teach in Palestinian universities? Why can't Palestinian students study abroad?

Why does Israel whine about academic freedom while denying it to Palestinians?

Why can’t Jews study in Gaza? Is that because Gaza is Jew-free?

It is Israel who will not allow Jews into Gaza.

Strange way of keeping Jews alive.

 

[Hollie]

And as most academics also understand, allowing BDS does not promote academic freedom in the slightest — quite the opposite, actually.

“You can’t teach people how to think if you teach them what to think,” stated University of Haifa President Prof. Ron Robin earlier this year as he became Chairman of the Committee of University Heads of Israel (VERA).

Preceding his election to VERA, in which he serves as the leading voice for Israel’s academic community on the issue of countering BDS, Robin’s own university found itself on the frontline of the BDS battleground in the U.S.

Following last November’s initial pro-BDS vote by the Pitzer College faculty to suspend its semester exchange program at University of Haifa, Robin and Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver joined forces to condemn the vote and the BDS threat more broadly. It was a key manifestation of Robin’s work with VERA, which he has called a quest to “promote the truths about Israel’s status as the only Middle East society which respects the values of free speech and academic freedom — truths that Israel’s detractors and BDS’s proponents so blatantly disregard.”

Those truths are self-evident at University of Haifa, where Jews and Arabs not only coexist, but thrive alongside one another as students and faculty members. Approximately 35% percent of our students are Arabs of Muslim, Christian and Druze backgrounds. Our Arab and Jewish students are bound together by their love of knowledge and mutual respect. The Arab students “study, work and play beside Jewish students, and this is the epitome of social justice, equality and opportunity for education,” Robin has explained.

(full article online)

Tolerating BDS as ‘Differing Views’ Flips Academic Freedom on Its Head

Where is Israel's exchange program with Palestinian universities? Why can't foreign professors teach in Palestinian universities? Why can't Palestinian students study abroad?

Why does Israel whine about academic freedom while denying it to Palestinians?

Why can’t Jews study in Gaza? Is that because Gaza is Jew-free?

It is Israel who will not allow Jews into Gaza.

Your conspiracy theories are a hoot.

 

[ForeverYoung436]

And as most academics also understand, allowing BDS does not promote academic freedom in the slightest — quite the opposite, actually.

“You can’t teach people how to think if you teach them what to think,” stated University of Haifa President Prof. Ron Robin earlier this year as he became Chairman of the Committee of University Heads of Israel (VERA).

Preceding his election to VERA, in which he serves as the leading voice for Israel’s academic community on the issue of countering BDS, Robin’s own university found itself on the frontline of the BDS battleground in the U.S.

Following last November’s initial pro-BDS vote by the Pitzer College faculty to suspend its semester exchange program at University of Haifa, Robin and Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver joined forces to condemn the vote and the BDS threat more broadly. It was a key manifestation of Robin’s work with VERA, which he has called a quest to “promote the truths about Israel’s status as the only Middle East society which respects the values of free speech and academic freedom — truths that Israel’s detractors and BDS’s proponents so blatantly disregard.”

Those truths are self-evident at University of Haifa, where Jews and Arabs not only coexist, but thrive alongside one another as students and faculty members. Approximately 35% percent of our students are Arabs of Muslim, Christian and Druze backgrounds. Our Arab and Jewish students are bound together by their love of knowledge and mutual respect. The Arab students “study, work and play beside Jewish students, and this is the epitome of social justice, equality and opportunity for education,” Robin has explained.

(full article online)

Tolerating BDS as ‘Differing Views’ Flips Academic Freedom on Its Head

Where is Israel's exchange program with Palestinian universities? Why can't foreign professors teach in Palestinian universities? Why can't Palestinian students study abroad?

Why does Israel whine about academic freedom while denying it to Palestinians?

I must admit that I don't know the way it is now, after all the Intifidas and terror and Oslo Accords. In the 1980's, though, I met a Palestinian, at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, who had studied at Oxford University in England.

 

[P F Tinmore]

And as most academics also understand, allowing BDS does not promote academic freedom in the slightest — quite the opposite, actually.

“You can’t teach people how to think if you teach them what to think,” stated University of Haifa President Prof. Ron Robin earlier this year as he became Chairman of the Committee of University Heads of Israel (VERA).

Preceding his election to VERA, in which he serves as the leading voice for Israel’s academic community on the issue of countering BDS, Robin’s own university found itself on the frontline of the BDS battleground in the U.S.

Following last November’s initial pro-BDS vote by the Pitzer College faculty to suspend its semester exchange program at University of Haifa, Robin and Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver joined forces to condemn the vote and the BDS threat more broadly. It was a key manifestation of Robin’s work with VERA, which he has called a quest to “promote the truths about Israel’s status as the only Middle East society which respects the values of free speech and academic freedom — truths that Israel’s detractors and BDS’s proponents so blatantly disregard.”

Those truths are self-evident at University of Haifa, where Jews and Arabs not only coexist, but thrive alongside one another as students and faculty members. Approximately 35% percent of our students are Arabs of Muslim, Christian and Druze backgrounds. Our Arab and Jewish students are bound together by their love of knowledge and mutual respect. The Arab students “study, work and play beside Jewish students, and this is the epitome of social justice, equality and opportunity for education,” Robin has explained.

(full article online)

Tolerating BDS as ‘Differing Views’ Flips Academic Freedom on Its Head

Where is Israel's exchange program with Palestinian universities? Why can't foreign professors teach in Palestinian universities? Why can't Palestinian students study abroad?

Why does Israel whine about academic freedom while denying it to Palestinians?

I must admit that I don't know the way it is now, after all the Intifidas and terror and Oslo Accords. In the 1980's, though, I met a Palestinian, at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, who had studied at Oxford University in England.

Students in Gaza cannot study in the West Bank or abroad. They even have to pass up scholarships because they cannot get out.

Ahed Tamimi had to fight for months to get a student visa to study in the UK. Many are not that lucky.

Noam Chompsky, and others, have been barred from giving talks in the West Bank. Foreign professors are barred from teaching in Palestine. Academics cannot attend conferences.

I don't see where any of this has anything to do with security.

 

[Hollie]

And as most academics also understand, allowing BDS does not promote academic freedom in the slightest — quite the opposite, actually.

“You can’t teach people how to think if you teach them what to think,” stated University of Haifa President Prof. Ron Robin earlier this year as he became Chairman of the Committee of University Heads of Israel (VERA).

Preceding his election to VERA, in which he serves as the leading voice for Israel’s academic community on the issue of countering BDS, Robin’s own university found itself on the frontline of the BDS battleground in the U.S.

Following last November’s initial pro-BDS vote by the Pitzer College faculty to suspend its semester exchange program at University of Haifa, Robin and Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver joined forces to condemn the vote and the BDS threat more broadly. It was a key manifestation of Robin’s work with VERA, which he has called a quest to “promote the truths about Israel’s status as the only Middle East society which respects the values of free speech and academic freedom — truths that Israel’s detractors and BDS’s proponents so blatantly disregard.”

Those truths are self-evident at University of Haifa, where Jews and Arabs not only coexist, but thrive alongside one another as students and faculty members. Approximately 35% percent of our students are Arabs of Muslim, Christian and Druze backgrounds. Our Arab and Jewish students are bound together by their love of knowledge and mutual respect. The Arab students “study, work and play beside Jewish students, and this is the epitome of social justice, equality and opportunity for education,” Robin has explained.

(full article online)

Tolerating BDS as ‘Differing Views’ Flips Academic Freedom on Its Head

Where is Israel's exchange program with Palestinian universities? Why can't foreign professors teach in Palestinian universities? Why can't Palestinian students study abroad?

Why does Israel whine about academic freedom while denying it to Palestinians?

I must admit that I don't know the way it is now, after all the Intifidas and terror and Oslo Accords. In the 1980's, though, I met a Palestinian, at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, who had studied at Oxford University in England.

Students in Gaza cannot study in the West Bank or abroad. They even have to pass up scholarships because they cannot get out.

Ahed Tamimi had to fight for months to get a student visa to study in the UK. Many are not that lucky.

Noam Chompsky, and others, have been barred from giving talks in the West Bank. Foreign professors are barred from teaching in Palestine. Academics cannot attend conferences.

I don't see where any of this has anything to do with security.

You seem to have a sense of entitlement such that your tender sensibilities take precedence over the laws and policies of sovereign nations.

Your hurt feelings are not everyone else’s first priority.

 

[RoccoR]

RE: Boycott Israel
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,

OH, you are so confused.

Students in Gaza cannot study in the West Bank or abroad. They even have to pass up scholarships because they cannot get out.

Ahed Tamimi had to fight for months to get a student visa to study in the UK. Many are not that lucky.

Noam Chompsky, and others, have been barred from giving talks in the West Bank. Foreign professors are barred from teaching in Palestine. Academics cannot attend conferences.

I don't see where any of this has anything to do with security.

(COMMENT)

• I'm not sure yet why you claim "They even have to pass up scholarships." There is something you have not told us.

• The "fight for months to get a student visa to study in the UK" is NOT Israel's fault. Israel don't issue UK Student Visas.

• Noam Chomsky and others are prevented access to the West Bank for the same reasons as mentioned in Posting #965 → RE: Newly Elected Muslim Congresswomen Favor Eliminating Israel:

◈ The international obligations which prohibit all advocacy that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence (“incitement” or “incitement to hatred”), as mandated by Article 20(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (“ICCPR”). This also apply to some of the provisions contained in Article 4 of the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (“ICERD”).​

There may be any number of reasons why a person is denied international travel. But you are making this broad and sweeping assumption base on knowing nothing about the reasoning. You just assume it is an anti-"Academic" policy. I venture to say, if we examined individual cases, we would find a perfectly sound reason.
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Most Respectfully,
R

 

[RoccoR]

RE: Boycott Israel
⁜→ ForeverYoung436, et al,

Israel is not on the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) for entry in the US.

I must admit that I don't know the way it is now, after all the Intifidas and terror and Oslo Accords. In the 1980's, though, I met a Palestinian, at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, who had studied at Oxford University in England.

(COMMENT)

Many students have entered the US under the VWP first, get accepted into a college and then apply for the student visa. But there are other ways:

1. Scholarships for Israeli Students, 2018
   scholarship-positions.com/scholarships-for...
   Scholarship Provider: The United States–Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF) Eligible Students: Israeli citizens of Arab origin or of Ethiopian origin are eligible. Dual American-Israeli citizens or permanent residents of the United States are not eligible to apply.
   
   
2. US universities seek Israeli students; will they come home ...
   www.timesofisrael.com/u-s-universities-seek...
   Israel “contributes” more MBAs to American schools than any other Middle Eastern country; and perhaps surprisingly, about 40% of the 2,800 Israeli students in the US — the vast majority of ...
   
   
3. List of Israeli universities and colleges - Wikipedia
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli...
   As many course offerings are varied, Israeli universities are considered to be of top quality, and they are inexpensive to attend. Israel's quality university education is largely responsible for spurring the country's high tech boom and rapid economic development .
   

The was a case (recently) where a Palestinian Student at Harvard was denied entry -- but that was later corrected.

Freshman Ismail Ajjawi arrives on campus just in time for classes after originally being denied entry to the US. by Saba Aziz, al-Jazeera News Agency​

.........
Most Respectfully,
R

 

[Sixties Fan]

There has been a 9% increase in tourist entries in August 2019 over August 2018, and a 20% increase over August 2017, according to Israel’s tourism ministry, with revenue from incoming tourism reaching $437 million in August,
an increase of 10% over the same month last year.

(full article online)

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/tr...tourist-entering-israel-in-august/2019/09/04/

 

[Sixties Fan]

Israel and Switzerland will work together to consider alternatives to the UN Relief and Works Agency, Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday after meeting with Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis in Bern.

Switzerland suspended payments to UNRWA in July until the completion of a UN investigation into ethical misconduct among senior officials of the organization. This decision came after Switzerland has already paid its $22.5 million pledge in 2019 toward the organization’s $1.2 billion budget.

(full article online)

Katz: Israel, Switzerland will consider alternatives to UNRWA

 

[Sixties Fan]

In reality, BDS’s momentum has stalled. The campaign hasn’t attracted a U.S. scholarly organization since it snagged the National Women’s Studies Association in 2015. Meanwhile, they lost big at the American Historical Association in 2016. The Modern Language Association grew so tired of BDS propagandists that they passed an anti-BDS resolution in 2017. BDS even lost in anthropology–among our most politically lopsided disciplines—when the American Anthropological Association narrowly defeated a boycott resolution three years ago.

This year, BDS lost the Society for the Study of Social Problems, an organization committed to the pursuit of “social justice” with no compunction about passing resolutions on subject matters outside its members’ range of expertise. The BDS resolution failed at the same time that one in support of the Green New Deal passed!

At this past weekend’s annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), yet another BDS effort was turned back. As a sign of the relative weakness of BDS in the political science field, activists targeted only Foundations of Political Theory, one of 49 “sections” within APSA. A proposed pro-BDS resolution wanted Foundations to “honor the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions,” which COMMENTARY readers will know is really a call to get rid of the Jewish state.

(full article online)

BDS Suffers Another Defeat from Academia

 

[Sixties Fan]

Gov. Mark Bevin signed anti-BDS law, pro-Israel supporters praised it.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Eighty organizations today wrote to the California State University (CSU) Chancellor and the University’s General Counsel demanding answers regarding San Francisco State University (SFSU) Professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s continued use of the university’s name and logo to spread anti-Semitism and false propaganda against Israel on social media.

The groups initially learned that an image with the message “Zionism = Racism” and “Boycott! Divest! Sanction!” had been posted to the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora’s Program (AMED) Facebook page, and asked CSU and state officials to address the matter, more than a month ago. To date, nothing has been done. The hateful posts remain, and Abdulhadi has added new posts soliciting funds for her lawsuit against SFSU and to fight the “Israel Lobby.” The response from newly appointed SFSU President Mahoney is that the AMED Facebook page is an independent page and unaffiliated with the university.


(full article online)

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us...name-logo-to-spread-anti-semitism/2019/09/04/

 

[Sixties Fan]

After Palestinian LGBTQ Ban, Israel Extends Helping Hand

 

[P F Tinmore]

Eighty organizations today wrote to the California State University (CSU) Chancellor and the University’s General Counsel demanding answers regarding San Francisco State University (SFSU) Professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s continued use of the university’s name and logo to spread anti-Semitism and false propaganda against Israel on social media.

The groups initially learned that an image with the message “Zionism = Racism” and “Boycott! Divest! Sanction!” had been posted to the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora’s Program (AMED) Facebook page, and asked CSU and state officials to address the matter, more than a month ago. To date, nothing has been done. The hateful posts remain, and Abdulhadi has added new posts soliciting funds for her lawsuit against SFSU and to fight the “Israel Lobby.” The response from newly appointed SFSU President Mahoney is that the AMED Facebook page is an independent page and unaffiliated with the university.


(full article online)

80 Groups: SFSU’s Prof. Abdulhadi Still Using School’s Name, Logo, to Spread Anti-Semitism

Rabab Abdulhadi has been sued several times and Israel lost every time because its allegations have been unfounded.

 

[Sixties Fan]

‘Harry Potter’ Actress Visits Israel to Celebrate Friend’s Upcoming Wedding

 

[Sixties Fan]

Four Israeli universities shine among top 50 producers of entrepreneurs