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Blatant anti-semitism and horrendous ignorance.This is not open academic discourse, but close mindedness andignorance of the history of the region and a FULL understanding of allsides of this issue. Something American Studies Association does notcare to do, instead just taking sides.Like · Reply · 147 · December 16 at 12:16pm
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This is a disgrace. You don't deserve in fact toassociate with the great scholars in Israel. This may not be legaland I understand your 501 status will be challenged legally. I willcertainly do all I can to support that and encourage others to as well.Shame on you.Like · Reply · 232 · December 16 at 10:51am
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Congrats! You now officially support bigotry anddiscrimination against innocent professors due to theirnationality/ethnicity! And you now discriminate against the most free,diverse universities in that entire region of Earth. ASA is now a racistpolitical organization, not an academic organization.Like · Reply · 80 · December 16 at 12:10pm
Free and diverse? Then why was the charterestablishing the so-called university of Ariel issued by theIsraeli Minister of Defence and not by the Ministry of Education?Don't think too hard or too long...Like · 1 · December 16 at 1:23pm
oh yes, go be a Christian in Saudi andpractice your religion John. Good luck with that.Like · 14 · December 16 at 3:40pm
Dowdle getting more ignorant every dayLike · 2 · December 16 at 6:08pm
You people are out of your minds. Israel
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With this announcement we welcome posts addressing the ASANational Council's unanimous endorsement of the academicboycott of Israel--from all sides of the issues involved. Feel freeto post letters, documents, press reports and other materialshere, but all posts containing name calling and substance freeallegations and hostility will be deleted.
The BDS movement is an outrageously anti-semitic movement, cloaked in 'righteousness'. It is demonizingIsrael, thus Jewish people. This is how Jewish discrimination beganbefore WW11. The irony here, is that many in the movement areJews themselves. I...
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This is great news (now does that mean you'll bereinstating the posts that were deleted yesterday):http://cifwatch.com/.../american-studies-association.../Like · Reply · 17 · December 12 at 10:00am
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This is Judith Butler,writing in The Nation in support of the ASA NC's boycottresolution.Like · 2 · December 12 at 10:09am
I am not sure if this has already beenposted, but here is an excerpt from an email from my professorwho was at the last ASA conference that sheds a bit more light
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should be helped and always respected. Very bad move on yourpart. Wake up;. Grow up.Like · 6 · December 16 at 10:43pm
It's not a blanket boycott, people. It's onlyboycotting those Israeli institutions complicit in an occupationthat the international community widely recognizes as illegal.Stand with us on the right side of history. It's what's best forPalestinians, Jews, and everyone else worldwide.Like · 2 · December 17 at 12:07pm
"Only boycotting those Israeli institutionscomplicit in an occupation. . . " What occupation are yourreferring to? West Bank is administered by the PA who is openlyglorifying and encouraging children to be shahids! Should theseterrorists be allowed to administer their own security? How isany of this good for Palestinians. As usual you are blaming thewrong side. Get rid of the terrorists that have no interest inpeace and then we can talk about something that is good forthe Palestinians, Jews and everyone else in the world. No one isbuying your bull any longer.Like · 5 · December 17 at 6:39pm
Ronit is right on.Like · 2 · December 18 at 10:08am
I support the vote and the scholars whocame together to take a stand for human rights.Like · 1 · December 18 at 1:54pm
Forget charters. Most Israeli universitieshave 20 - 30% Arab students studying more freely than anycountry in the Middle East. John, your hatred of Israel is reallymisplaced. Go and visit and you'll see a country that is morefree and diverse than almost any country in the world.Like · 3 · December 18 at 8:51pm
too funny, the same assholes that support theembargo on Iran, which has done nothing to warrant it, thosesame people who support the murder of over a million Muslimspursuant a lie called 9/11, they are the people here crying aboutZionism getting some well deserved attentions.How does it feel ? “Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian)hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements becauseeverything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don’t grabwill go to them.” - Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister,addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence FrancePresse, Nov. 15, 1998.Like · 1 · December 19 at 12:07am
Big bad Ariel in the WestBank. At the end of the day, education has no boundaries,political or physical. The Ariel University Center is proof to thatreality in one of the most volatile regions of the world. Why you all bitch BDS, students, regardless of nationality, creedand religion, thirst for education. Amongst them hundred of Israeli Arabs who do not allow for the politicization of theiracademic future and have chosen to study at AUC. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3970752,00.htmlLike · December 19 at 10:53am
I am amazed that this organization would choose toparticipate in a boycott of a country that is always in the forefronthuman decency and first in line to provide humanitarian aid when itcomes to catastrophes such as typhoons, earthquakes, etc. Furtherhave you lost sight of the medical care provided to citizens of anenemy state such as Syria during its civil war? You really and truly need to revisit your goals as an organization.Like · Reply · 65 · December 16 at 12:27pm
Paul: do you have any idea as to what youare talking about. The "Syrian" the Israeli military aremedically assisting are elements of the Al-Nusra Front, affiliatedto Al Qaeda. This is a crazy policy, to link Israel in with theSaudi mafia and the extremist right wing nut jobs in the USA. Itwill end in despair. As for 'a country in the forefront of humandecency' try telling that to the parents of children who diedcrying in absolute agony after Israel bombed young children inGaza with white phosphorous bombs or try telling that to theparents of the 14 year old Palestinian refugee shot in the back and killed by an Israeli Army sniper or try telling that to theparents of the 17 year old deaf mute boy who was riddled withbullets by an Israel army woman soldier when he was on hisway to a shop to buy a birthday cake. Maybe you are the onewho needs to revisit your goals as an individual?Like · 6 · December 16 at 1:17pm
I know very well what I am talking about. Ithink you need to revisit the TRUE facts. Take your blinders off Mr. Dowdle and put the Kool Aid down. Also have you stoppedto mourn the innocent Israeli children who have been murderedby the terrorist? My guess is no you have not. Also before you judge by photos, try to discern whether theyhave been photo shopped as the terrorist elements often do.Like · 18 · December 16 at 1:27pm · Edited
Well said, Paul. Please note that in hisscreed, he has conveniently forgotten to mention that Israel hasbeen proffering medical services to victims of the Syrian conflict.on those in the ASA that oppose or wish to abstain!Dear friends and colleagues,We are in the final countdown until the end of voting on theNational Council’s “Proposed Resolution for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions” (voting ends Dec. 15th at11:59PM). Thanks to eight of our former ASA presidents, we have onemore document objecting to the academic boycott to circulate.To hear their objections to the boycott, see here -->http://tinyurl.com/noasaboycott. The National Council continuesto refuse to circulate or post to the ASA’s website alternativeperspectives. Please spread this letter among ASA colleagues(via social media, e-mail, whatever you do) and urge them toreject the resolution. If they remain uncertain, encourage themto register their stance by voting to abstain. A special thanksgoes to our MSU contingent for figuring out that strategy! Again the link to the Letter from ASA PRESIDENTS in Oppositionto Proposed Boycott of Academic Institutions: http://www.scribd.com/.../Letter-from-ASA-Presidents-in...Like · 2 · December 13 at 3:58am
Open Letter to Mae NgaiDear Mae,Thank you for your opposition to Israel’s occupation of Palestine, its aggression, and its treatment of Palestinians. Andthank you for your support of divestment campaigns. All that isgood to hear and all valuable. Nonetheless, we are sorry to hearthat you continue to believe that the boycott resolution “violatesthe principle of academic freedom and free speech.” It doesneither. As has been frequently explained throughout ASAdebates on the resolution, and on many other occasions, theboycott targets institutions not individual academics. Israeliacademics remain free to enjoy all the benefits of academicfreedom: their right to research and publish, to travel, to attendconferences, including the ASA. None of these freedoms areguaranteed to Palestinians, and more often than not they aredenied by Israeli practices, laws and policies. Still less does theboycott deprive anyone of their freedom of speech, thoughPalestinians are regularly imprisoned, batoned, shot with rubberbullets and gas canisters, and even live ammunition, for seekingto claim their rights to speak out against oppression anddispossession. Institutions, however, do not enjoy academic freedom, thoughthey are called upon to protect and further it. What the boycottseeks to do is to persuade all of us to obey our consciences inwithdrawing our consent from any collaboration, material orintellectual, with institutions whose actual complicity in acts of occupation, dispossession, and colonization fare outweighs anyhypothetical restriction on Israeli academic privileges that mightensue from our refusal to collaborate. You ask why this focus on boycott. The principal reason is thatthe great preponderance of Palestinian civil societyorganizations has asked us to honor their call boycott as well asdivestment and sanctions. It is not for us, and not especially forany Israeli scholar or national, however progressive they maybe, to instruct the Palestinians on the proper means and limitsof their struggle. Would you have told the Civil Rights activiststhat they should not boycott buses for fear of alienating thegood white citizens of Alabama? Or the UFW not to boycottgrapes for fear of damaging Californian grocers? Why then seek to limit the parameters of Palestinian struggle in order to protectthe feelings and efforts of the Israeli left? To say this is not tooffer insult or to be divisive. It is merely to state a fundamentalprinciple of all solidarity: we do not instruct the oppressed onhow to fight their fight. With all due respect to Michael Zakim, itis clear enough that decades of well-meaning “dialogue” havechanged nothing and at best offered cover to continuing Israeliexpansion. Now it is time to listen to the Palestinian movementfor justice and honor and endorse the boycott they have calledfor. Signed, David Lloyd, David Palumbo-LiuLike · 2 · December 13 at 11:21am · Edited
I heard or read somewhere that under the termsof an academic boycott, an Israeli scholar would be accepted atan ASA conference only if her or his travel to the conferencewas not sponsored by their university. Do you know if that iscorrect?Like · December 13 at 5:40pm
WHO is persecuting WHOM?Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza:1968: 1.1 million2013: 4.4 millionJewish population in Morocco:1948: 265,0002004: 5,000Jewish population in Iraq:1948: 135,0002004: 30Jewish population in Algeria:1948: 140,0002004: 100
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Also, where is his outrage over Arab on Arab atrocities?Like · 7 · December 16 at 6:11pm
Doodle has no photo because he isembarrassed by the little mustache under his nose resemblinghis pal Adolf Like · 4 · December 16 at 6:12pm
John, if that's even your real name asyour FB looks like a made up one, I surely don't see Israelposting internet feed like the jihadists do as they chop peoplesheads off...but hey why boycott that? John, I do wonder whatyour real name is lolLike · 2 · December 17 at 12:39am
Even if they are not photo-shopped, It issimple. Israel does NOT target civilians; they are killed ascollateral damage. Just like in EVERY military action by EVERY western nation. Islamic Jihad shot an anti-tank missile at aschool bus last summer. Maybe they thought it was a tank?They nearly killed 25 children on purpose. How would you reactif a terrorist organization operating out of Mexico shot missilesat schools in the US and the Mexican government did nothingabout it?Like · 4 · December 17 at 10:09am
So MIchael the shelling of Palestinian civilianswith Israeli white phosphorus was 'collateral damage'?Like · 1 · December 18 at 5:57am
In fact, all of the Zionists shills here need tolie in order to maintain beliefs.How about we listen to one of the people involved tell us whatthey do...and not the fools that come to facebook supportinggenocide pursuant a belief that ignorance = knowledge..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wldvJYuFmKw... “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there hasalways been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been aconstant thread winding its way through our political andcultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy meansthat "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov
Israeli Racism - where Ethiopian Jews "aren'tJewish enough.":"According to IRIN, a UN humanitarian news website, there isrampant racism against Ethiopian Jews; they face constantdiscrimination and they live in very poor socio-economicconditions because of this racism: “Ethiopian Jews are treated differently from other Israelis:factories do not want to employ them; landlords refuse them;and certain schools turn away their children.” http://chicagomonitor.com/.../israels-ethiopian-jews-a.../Like · 1 · December 19 at 5:20am
"Take your blinders off Mr. Dowdle and putthe Kool Aid down." Ad hominem from a man who states an opinion, and then callsit fact. Who denies fact based on speculative "conspiracies"about photoshop...Here is some more fact you wont like, being a believer. This woman, is the perfect representation, of a Zionist. IMOhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded... this is who you are, pursuant your support for the racism calledZionism.Like · 1 · December 19 at 5:26am
forefront of human decency? Yank your headout boy. You are stinking up the joint.http://www.clevelandchallenger.com/u-s-media-suppressed.../Like · December 19 at 5:27am
I was going to ignore you but you are soentertaining I couldn't resist a reply. I speak from fact DonLeonard. I am further amazed at your willingness to rely on aUN "humanitarian" website for your so-called facts. Perhaps youshould get off your duff and go visit Israel and see for yourself how incredibly wrong and naive you are. You must be drinkingsome of Mr. Dowdle's kool aid.Like · December 19 at 12:55pm · Edited
Once again Paulie, you have nothing but adhominem, because that is all you got.I see you for what you are.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?Jewish population in Tunisia:1948: 105,0002004: 100Jewish population in Egypt:1948: 75,0002004: 100Jewish population in Yemen:1948: 50,0002004: 800Jewish population in Libya:1948: 38,0002004: 100Jewish population in Syria:1948: 30,0002004: 20Jewish population in Lebanon:1948: 5,0002004: 10Like · 4 · December 16 at 7:25pm
File photo accompanying Nation piece:http://en.wikipedia.org/.../File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146...Like · December 18 at 2:59pm
This is Benjamin Dohertyon Tenured Radical's decision to vote FOR the boycottresolution.Like · 1 · December 12 at 10:08am
going to repost this for proper placement:my general opinion is that there is a large dedicated sector of your group which has a great hostility to Jews and the Jewishstate wholly unrelated to issues of human rights or territorialdisputes. The environment that your "academic group"seemingly wishes to foster, where you castigate and boycottJewish citizens solely based upon their religious ties to theircountry, is strikingly similar to the hostile political and socialenvironment that like minded academics in Germany promotedin Germany for years which gave rise to the Nazi party.Like · 10 · December 12 at 11:04pm
Bless those who're joining the noble cause of stopping the evils of zionism. Bless the Torah Jews whom, wegreatly respect.Like · 1 · December 16 at 10:22am
Deb Kay only likes certain kinds of Jews. Iguess in Deb Kay's world there are 'good' Jews and 'bad' Jews.Like · December 17 at 10:55pm
Cool. We only need to break the taboo onthe wrongness of the Holocaust and we are done!Like · 4 · December 12 at 12:24pm
The fact that ASA is citing the ElectronicIntifada and Mondoweiss (two websites known for their radicalanti-Israel stance and columnists w/ very checkered pasts) as acredible source says all I need to know about this organization---the only taboo you have broken ASA is the one wherebyeducation should be for all people for the betterment of mankind not an exclusive club for those whose ideology yousupport and a weapon to promote bigotry and hatredLike · 2 · December 14 at 9:39am · Edited
http://merip.org/breaking-%E2%80%9Camerica%E2%80%99s-last...Like · Reply · 2 · December 12 at 9:28am
A fascinating article just came out aboutthe needed project of deconstructing zionism and analyzing theroots of the problem:http://www.aljazeera.com/.../here-why-deconstructing...Like · December 12 at 10:52am
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