Editor: The Modern Language Association is meeting in Chicago this week and today the conference featured a panel with several supporters of academic boycott of Israel, notably Omar Barghouti. Our friend Liz Shulman is at the MLA convention and took these fotos of some of the anti-boycott literature being passed out at the panel, or set on chairs.
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Another strong and heady scent of desperation in the form of printed hasbara.
Do they really think that they are ‘reaching out’ to uneducated rubes? Lemmeseehere– this might just backfire! Thank you Liz– all the best to all of you.
The Palestinians are caricatured by a few sound bites selected by some Zionists. Couldn’t these people at least come up with an argument? The ASA thoroughly examined this issue. I hope the MLA does the same.
they are cite the nyt citing http://www.palwatch.org/
they must really be desperate.
Let’s talk about Avigdor Lieberman’s ethnic cleansing plan, Bibi’s insistance that non-Jews are a “demographic threat” and Bennett’s bragging about how many Arabs he has killed and how “normal” this is. Would these same Zionists support a Palestinian leader who bragged about killing Jews? I don’t think so. Will they condemn Bennett? I don’t see that. Bennett even gets invited on CNN and to the Saban forum where he gets softball questions.
Finally, about that grand mufti.
What about the hundreds of state-appointed rabbis who have supported Jim Crow legislation as well as a few of them writing a book which advocated killing non-Jewish babies in certain circumstances and how it was “ethical” and “moral” to do so in such occurances.
Netanyahu didn’t move an inch.
And then there’s the whole question of occupation, which of course the flyers refused to talk about.
RE: “At MLA, boycott opponents paper chairs”
MY COMMENT: The literature pictured (excepting the first one in b&w) are far too slick. They look like something produced by a high-priced PR firm that is more accustomed to representing tobacco companies. I don’t think members of Modern Language Association will fall for that kind of glitzy “messaging”. In fact, I suspect they are more likely to be repulsed by it.