tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post4917245377425981000..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: On Academic BoycottsYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-29300775076960950692009-03-17T21:00:00.000+02:002009-03-17T21:00:00.000+02:00Very creative, Hasbara Buster (Ibrahim).Consider t...Very creative, Hasbara Buster (Ibrahim).<BR/><BR/>Consider the Zimbabwe boycott, change of government and the situation today; the population is certainly worse off. It's not reported but South Africa is going the same way and may already be there.<BR/><BR/>The lesson is to not simply destroy producing, western economies by handing them over to untried groups of people. It's a terrible waste and everyone ends up worse off. Make no mistake, the boycott is not about mere reform. (If it were it would acknowledge the Gaza pullout.)<BR/><BR/>These boycotts are for the purpose of suffusing liberals with the inner glow of sanctimony; they also like to kick around someone who won't hurt back.Thermbloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01219903189248781710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-16088546151632647352009-03-17T18:32:00.000+02:002009-03-17T18:32:00.000+02:00How many of the boycotters will forgoe on taking a...<I>How many of the boycotters will forgoe on taking advantage of scientific or technological advances created by Israelis? Hands, anyone?</I><BR/><BR/>As we say in Argentina, when you're going there I'm already back from there.<BR/><BR/>I responded in advance to your argument <A HREF="http://thehasbarabuster.blogspot.com/2009/03/they-should-stop-using-fill-in-with.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>. Read it; you're in for a few little surprises.Ibrahim Ibn Yusufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839484683464457225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-18606887375729082322009-03-17T18:14:00.000+02:002009-03-17T18:14:00.000+02:00Few if any of those involved in the boycotts will ...Few if any of those involved in the boycotts will actually eliminate products that come from Israeli ingenuity.<BR/><BR/>As long as they are a step or two removed from Israel it will provide enough cover for them to deny the relationship and continue using them. After all their principles aren't based upon inconveniencing themselves.Jack Steinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16625864271071630940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-62178557407130021522009-03-16T19:27:00.000+02:002009-03-16T19:27:00.000+02:00It's gratifying to see so many well argued comment...It's gratifying to see so many well argued comments in there about the double-standards practised by the anti-Israel academics, gives one a bit more faith in our educational institutions. Seems to me the comments were mostly favourable towards Israel, which was a bit unexpected. <BR/><BR/>On the subject of boycotts, I like the story about Ilan Pappe. I understand he was asked to resign from Haifa University because "It is fitting for someone who calls for a boycott of his university to apply the boycott himself" Talk about hubris, can anyone fault that logic?<BR/><BR/>Rgds, GavinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-31453544268029028072009-03-16T11:34:00.000+02:002009-03-16T11:34:00.000+02:00The political resources of academics are limited ....The political resources of academics are limited ...The boycott ... is left after all other forms of struggle have been tried<BR/><BR/>isn't that exactly the same reasoning by which Hamas justifies suicide bombing according to Jeffrey Goldberg and James Bennett at www.theatlantic.com?<BR/><BR/>and as to the powerlessness of academics - this is coquette - whom do they think politicians play golf with while they are on the rise? with Joe the Plumber?<BR/><BR/>rgds,<BR/>SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com