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Next Sunday (5th December), SOAS is hosting a conference on the Middle East.
If the title - Resisting Israeli Apartheid - doesn't make clear the bias and preaching of hatred which the conference entails, the timetable and speakers will:
10.00-10.15 Welcoming Remarks Victoria Brittain, UK10.15-10.45 Keynote address
Tom Paulin, Oxford University, UK
Partition and Literature: Reflections
Palestine/Israel and Northern Ireland
Chair: Steven Rose, Open University, UK10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-13.00 Isolating Apartheid: Divestment, Sanctions, Boycott
Chair: Victoria Brittain, UK11.00-11.15 Lisa Taraki, Palestine
The Cultural & Academic Boycott of Israel11.15-11.30 Lawrence Davidson, USA
Divestment: Isolating Apartheid Financially11.30-11.45 Betty Hunter, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK
The Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) Campaign11.45-12.00 Omar Barghouti, Palestine
Boycott as Resistance: The Moral Dimension12.00-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Isolating Apartheid: Scope & Principles
Chair: Nur Masalha, UK14.00-14.15 Ilan Pappe, Israel
The Meaning & Objectives of Boycott14.15-14.30 Ur Shlonsky, Israel and Switzerland
Resisting Apartheid and the Charge of Antisemitism14.30-14.45 Mona Baker, UK
On the Distinction between Institutions & Individuals14.45-15.00 John Docker, Australia
Settler Colonialism as Genocide. Implications for a Strategy
of Solidarity with the Palestinians15.00-16.00 Discussion
16.00-16.30 TEA BREAK
16.30-18.00 Isolating Apartheid: Strategies and Actions
Chair: Karma Nabulsi, UK16.30-16.45 Hilary Rose, BRICUP, UK
Building the Academic Boycott in Britain16.45-17.00 Haim Bresheeth, UK
Organising the Academics: Our Duty to Expose Israel, the
Extra-Judicial Pariah State17.00-17.15 Ben Young, Jewish Students for Justice for Palestinians, UK
The Role of Students: Lessons from South Africa17.15-18.00 Discussion
18.00-18.15 Summary & Close
Jeremy Corbyn MP
It would be almost impossible to draw up a list of more biased anti-Israel speakers, many of whom do not even support Israel's right to exist, and at least one of whom - Tom Paulin - has advocated the mass murder of Israeli citizens.
Assuming - it's a big assumption, given the viewpoint and record of some speakers - that they do not call for violence or murder, then they are of course entitled to their view, and to express it. But at SOAS? SOAS is an academic institution which is supposedly dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge, not to the advocacy of hate politics.
To be fair to SOAS, this doesn't seem to be a SOAS sponsored conference so much as a conference held at SOAS. Nonetheless, it remains grotesquely offensive - not least to some SOAS academics, one of whom has let me know about this with some concern.
The authorities at SOAS presumably know what is going on in their premises. The meeting is hardly secret. Are we to assume from this that they are happy to allow advocates of the murder of Israelis to grace their institution?
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There is also an event on "Israeli apartheid" (whatever that is) at my uni, Warwick. The panel is 3-to-1 anti-Israel. The Union were worried about it but they have allowed it to go ahead.
I tried to point out to one of the Friends of Palestine exec members that a country which allows people who oppose its existence to sit in its parliament cannot seriously be compared to Apartheid South Africa, but - would you believe it - they weren't persuaded.
By all means we can be disgusted, but are we really surprised? The hard left is heavily represented in Academia, both here and in the US, and they are by far the worst anti-semites going.
SOAS should be ashamed that they are letting this disgraceful event take place on their campus.
As for those in the 'Friends of Palestine' group - did you really expect anything else from them?
Cut off their funding, and these people will need to relocate to Hyde Park corner.
This is clearly a Mossad plot to discredit the anti-Israeli cause by identifing it with the most unpleasant, hate filled moonbats in Britain. Although they forgot to invite Richard Ingrams and A.N. Wilson.
Still any conference that is opened by Tom 'kill the jews' Paulin and is closed by the IRA supporting Jeremy Corbyn ought to be good for a laugh.
I suppose the next thing would be a demand for a cultural and economic boycott of the Arabic world because of the genocide in the Sudan, and apartheid treatment of Dhimmi Christian and Jew , no? These people being so fair minded, and all.
Ack, maybe not.
If I wasn't elsewhere it would be quite good fun to go along and stir things up a bit, you know, by saying that most palestians support terrorism and any hardship they experience is all their own fault.
How long would I last?
"Ilan Pappe, Israel". Shouldn't that be "Occupied Palestine"?
I wish these people would make up their minds.
Richard, I think they'd set their attack squad of Anglican vicars on you, like the ones who attacked the Outrage! geezers on Trafalgar Square.
"It would be almost impossible to draw up a list of more biased anti-Israel speakers..."
How come they missed out Jenny Tonge then?
Richard, that would be wonderful way to get get beat up...sadly you would probably get arrested for causing a disturbance.
One of the many offensive aspects of this fun-packed day, apart from its very existence, is the number Jewish speakers. Such gushing apologetics helps assuage their self-loathing. Moral masturbation, if you will.
'SOAS should be ashamed that they are letting this disgraceful event take place on their campus.'
= a university should be ashamed to allow the expression of views it might disagree with.
Puerile. This is a free country. Get used to it.
'Anon' is, of course, quite correct. These people have an absolute right to express their sixth-form opinions; in fact, I would go further and say that it is essential that they do so, because the rest of us need to be able to identify not only the enemy, but also the fellow travellers/useful idiots who march to their tune, if only so that we can avoid them. People like 'Anon', most probably.
By the way, isn't that an unusual name? What were his/her parents thinking of when they chose it?
Really anon?
Well how far do you think a pro-Israeli event staged at a UK University would get in this country at the moment?
"= a university should be ashamed to allow the expression of views it might disagree with.
Puerile. This is a free country. Get used to it."
The deliberate deligitimisation of a democratic state with the intention of bringing about her destruction is merely a point of view? No doubt your grandfather made similar comments when he was vigorously defending Hitler and Mosley.
A free country? Yes, free to abandon its Jewish population. Free to engage in open anti-Semitism. Free to openly plan the destruction of the Jewish State? Yes, Britain in 2004 is free, in very much the same way virulently anti-Semitic Poland was free in 1934. Then again, Britain (a country which fought a world war in spite of, and not because of the Jews) in 1934 was quite as anti-Semitic as Poland, so really not much has changed.
For more on the current state of Jew-hating Britain, do read this brilliant article ("Her Majesty's Foreign and Prejudice Office") by Melanie Phillips in which she makes the following comment:
"Jack Straw’s silence in the face of Sir Ivor’s remarks will only further embolden the anti-Jewish prejudice in Britain that is now on such brazen and alarming display, and calling into question the nature of the Jewish settlement in Britain itself."
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles/archives/000920.html
It's interesting also that Anon obviously doesn't consider Pollard truly British. "Get used to it," he says, as if talking to a visitor to your perfidious shores. How very typical, and how very British.
A few years back, a wealthy American Jew gave over one hundred million pounds of valuable art objects to Britain. "You bloody idiot," I wanted to shout at him, "don't you understand the kind of people you're giving these things to?" I'm only glad that that poor man is no longer with us to see just how disastrous a decision he in fact made.
The Jews of Europe, and particularly Britain and France, should clear out, now, before it's too late.
Heidi, anon was pointing that "get used to it" comment at me, not Stephen.
Also, I find your comment "don't you understand the kind of people you're giving these things to?" out of order. You're tarring everyone in Britain with a quite vile brush.
Heidi: Oddly enough, most British Jews feel safer in Stamford Hill or Finchley than in Tel Aviv. Can't imagine why, when Gen. Sharon protects Israelis so well witn his nice big fence and secret nukes. But perhaps those Brits are "self-hating Jews", like everyone else who doesn't dance to the Likudnik/Zionist tune.
This is really sad. This discussion at SOAS and many like it (both previous and in the future) is related to the actions of the state of Isreal in Palestine which one has to be deluded to not accept are both illegal and oppressive. This is nothing to do with being anti-semitic or a raving lefty. Why does this subject always turn people into irrational children?
I sat through five hours of this miserable meeting. The keynote speaker was Tom Paulin, who has been banned from speaking at Harvard but is incomprehensibly still
persona grata with UK Universities and of course BBC Newsnight. He made his usual highly selective literature survey masquerading as academic scholarship, including some quotes from British Jews who opposed Zionism including from Edward Montagu, secretary for India in the Lloyd George government. The nastiest comment from the platform that I heard was Paulin's reply to a former Israeli who asked whether Israel could be equated to Nazi Germany. His response was that the IDF operations in the occupied territories are equivalent to what the Nazis did to the Warsaw Ghetto. (I later challenged him and he said that an Israeli Minister had made the same comparison (he did not: Lapid was just talking about the Rafah operation - and later retracted).
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Here's a report on the above conference (beneath === line).
According to recent research over 50% of British academics
admitted to "bumping" up degree grades (i.e. cheating) in
order to maximise funding for their departments. It is well
known that some British universities depend greatly on
Arab cash to survive. I suppose the guys below hope they
are doing themselves a favour with their Arab audience.
What next? Bend over?
On Dec. 5, some 270 academics from around the world convened
in London to discuss the implementation of a boycott of Israeli
academic institutions and the severing of cultural links with Israel.
The aim of the conference was to refine the arguments, clarify the
rationale, and determine how to act next. Participants considered it
an important step toward convincing large numbers of academics
to heed a call for an academic boycott.
Support for the boycott is motivated by the terrible conditions
created by the Israeli occupation and continued dispossession
of the Palestinians. Furthermore, the failure of governments to
effectively pressure Israel so that it will comply with international
law means that it is up to civil society to act. As Lawrence Davidson,
a professor of history in the U.S., stated: "Governments in the
West, left to themselves, do not have the will to sanction Israel for
its illegal occupation of the occupied territories and its violent
destruction of Palestinian society. Therefore, an international grass
roots movement must be organized to educate significant parts
of the Western populations on the nature of Israeli behavior, and
simultaneously build pressure on Israel to change its ways, and
governments to act to encourage this change." Boycotts, a
quintessential nonviolent form of protest, are seen as a key tactic
to force Israel to end the occupation and in general obtain a
modicum of justice. Academics in particular see the boycott of Israeli
academic institutions as a way they can contribute to this struggle.
Israeli professor of history Ilan Pappe called on his academic
colleagues to "boycott us." This may seem an odd recommendation
coming from an Israeli scholar-indeed, someone likened Pappe's call to
a "turkey voting for Christmas"! Pappe explained his action, however,
by arguing that change will not come from within, that external
pressure is essential for Israel to change. Although Israeli academics
may be more liberal than the population at large, Pappe didn't believe
that demand for change would come from this quarter. If Israeli
academics actively were working for change, he explained, then the
boycott might be seen as counterproductive. It was clear from several
presentations, however, that Israeli academic institutions are part of
the problem. Support for the boycott also came from a handful of
academics in Israel, some Israeli academics working abroad, and a
significant number of Jewish academics.
A large number of Palestinian academics and intellectuals called for
the boycott in April 2004, and Prof. Lisa Taraki of Birzeit University
clarified what Palestinians hoped to obtain from this action. She
warned against substituting genuine solidarity with Palestinian
academics with offers of funds conditional on Israeli partnership.
European Union funding agencies in particular have implemented
such arrangements, she said, but this has resulted in a "false
solidarity." Joint Palestinian-Israeli research projects, she
elaborated, "inevitably result in enhancing the legitimacy of the
Israeli institutions as centers of excellence, without doing much to
strengthen the research capacity of Palestinian institutions." And,
Taraki concluded, "luring fund-starved Palestinian academics in
such a manner can be seen as a form of political blackmail, again
regardless of the intentions of the sponsors." She cautioned
conference participants against accepting such conditional
arrangements as substitutes for a boycott.
A portion of the conference dealt with drawing lessons from the
boycott against apartheid South Africa. It took years to implement
this boycott and to overcome the arguments leveled against it. The
South African academic boycott proved to be effective, however,
and an important contribution to the collapse of apartheid. The same
arguments made in favor of the academic boycott against South Africa
apply now-and even more so. Since Israel's version of apartheid is
more extreme than that of South Africa in the 1970s, it is clear that
the arguments for the boycott are more relevant today.
Mona Baker, a British professor of translation studies, set out
principles of who and which institutions should be boycotted. This is
an important issue, because the boycott must avoid the appearance
of discrimination and the risk of dilution due to individually chosen
exceptions. The proposal was to cast the academic boycott as an
economic boycott "to undermine the institutions that allow a pariah
state to function and claim membership of the international
community." When considering a boycott of, say, tourism to Israel,
Baker noted, "supporters of an economic boycott do not ask whether
the individual hotel workers who are being laid off in Israel are
individually for or against the occupation. But we do keep returning
to this question in relation to academics affiliated to Israeli
institutions."
When cast as an economic boycott, therefore, an academic boycott
implies that all academics at Israeli institutions should be
boycotted, and Israeli academics working abroad would be exempted.
Similarly, non-Jewish academics at Israeli institutions also would be
boycotted. Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian dance company director
and doctoral student at Tel Aviv University, addressed the common
arguments raised against the academic boycott. He, too, observed that
there were no genuine attempts by Israeli academic institutions to
make a difference or bridge the divide. Israeli academics were deeply
involved in the implementation of the Israeli brand of apartheid, he
noted, and the legal profession was particularly complicit in this.
Finally, addressing the claim by opponents of the boycott that it will
hurt those opposed to the occupation, Barghouti made it clear that
such a group was a small minority in the universities. Thus, he
concluded, it didn't make sense to suspend the boycott because of
a handful of individuals.
In the coming months several activist groups will push for divestment,
economic boycotts and an academic boycott of Israeli academic
institutions. Because it seems, on the face of it, to conflict with
values such as academic freedom and freedom of speech, the latter
tactic will encounter most opposition, and opponents of the boycott
may attempt to diminish the responsibility of academics for crimes
committed by their state. In 2005, we will witness the overall call
for the academic boycott gathering momentum, and this will undoubtedly
trigger a sharp and violent reaction. The London conference was meant
to prepare advocates of the boycott with the arguments with which to
address their colleagues, and the means to answer any objections.
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