Notice the namecalling and sophomoric goofiness in this post:
Palestine is an addiction for Europe.
Manchester University has once again announced a boycott of Israel.
Very important university. Oy vey: in continuous decline since Chaim
Weizman (later first president of Israel) was professor of chemistry
there at the beginning of the 20th century. Any Israeli academic it
keeps out will only diminish its standing a bit more. Oh, yes, and then
there is Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts where you can major
in the ecology of the Connecticut valley, a weirdo "new age" place if
there ever was one; it is about to disinvest from companies which
"help" the Israel Defense Forces, at the initiative of a far-left-wing
Israeli student. Here we are in koo-koo land.
I doubt Peretz has even visited Hampshire College, or Manchester University, to issue these foolish slights. The other day Dershowitz said that the only forces arrayed against Israel in the U.S. are "the neo-Nazi hard right and the neo-Stalinist hard left." And so when Bill Moyers spoke out, Dershowitz was "disappointed."
Disappointment is likely to be Peretz and Dershowitz's portion again and again in the next phase of this battle, and they will be challenged to come up with better thinking than koo-koo and neo-Nazi.
