June 1, 2006

The Disgraceful Boycott in Britain

By James Lewis
One British professor emailed and called it "monstrous." Another wrote that  "We live at a time of insane politics." And distinguished retired professor in London writes that "just because we (as also in your country) have dangerous fanatics, please do not consign us to limbo. We need to keep communicating and fighting these battles against fanatics together, be they fascist or whatever." A Swedish friend calls it "a symptom of this pervasive sickness," the obsessive hatred of America and Israel that has now resulted in a boycott vote by a university professors' union  in Britain to blackball Israeli professors and institutions who do not publicly denounce Israel's "apartheid policies." You can tell moral people by their capacity to feel guilt about a deeply shameful event. You can also tell the clueless ones or the useful fools, by their inability to get what just happened.  In Europe, Stalin lives. On May 29 a totalitarian faction of the Socialist Workers' Party...(Read Full Article)