Three days after carrying Stanley Fish’s argument against the academic boycott of Israel, the Times may have unwittingly offered the best argument for the cultural boycott. Ethan Bronner’s front page article “After Gaza, Israel Grapples With Crisis of Isolation” outlines…
Weird. Here’s a statement by Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers saying the AFT opposes the academic boycott of Israel. OK. Some people don’t like this kind of thing. But the AFT includes the gratuitous and erroneous statement…
As any regular visitor to this site knows, I have conflicted feelings about my relationship to the Jewish community. Though I am always proudly Jewish, I announce that I am assimilating, anti-Zionist, non-Zionist, realist, leftist. I have a love-hate thing…
This is a cool boycott action video from a French supermarket. And here’s an explanation of the green-shirted action in the video, for the French-impaired (from an email that’s being passed around): Mostly, they are talking about the products they…
But, writing in the Times, he’s against an academic boycott of Israel, as a blunt instrument you only get out when you’re dealing with the Third Reich.
Last month, the Japanese author Haruki Murakami accepted the Jerusalem Prize as part of the Jerusalem International Book Fair. Murakami was widely criticized for attending and rejecting calls to boycott the event. At the award ceremony Murakami addressed the controversy…
Susie Kneedler tried to comment on the Shahar Peer story, couldn’t get her comment posted. We’re working out the bugs. Here it is: Sadly, John McEnroe, Billie Jean King, and Mary Carillo all condemned the UAE decision to deny Peer…
Last month the United Arab Emirates refused to give a visa to Israeli tennis star Shahar Peer so that she could play in a tournament in Dubai, and the UAE has now been fined by the women’s tennis association for…