US university heads oppose academic boycott of Israel

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4796154,00.html

The chancellors of leading US universities, including MIT, the University of Chicago, and all ten campuses of the University of California, have clarified that they are opposed to any academic boycott, in particular to one against Israel. Their comments followed an appeal from the Association of University Heads of Israel (VERA), which was intended to prevent the final adoption of the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) resolution to boycott Israel.

BDS is un-American. Kudos to those helping fight it. Hawkin supporting BDS is no different than James Watson's racism.

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1. BDS are a group of bigots

Un-American is right.

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2. BDSers are carrying on the long tradition of anti-Jewish boycotts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_boycotts

This is a very incomplete history, going back to 1875. But doesn't get into bans on Jews in academic fields trades, cities, countries, dhimmi status, etc.

There is nothing progressive or heroic about jumping on the Jew-banning bandwagon. And it's not "different this time."