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Posts Tagged ‘Academic Boycott’

No Motion in Norway's Academic Ocean: they didn't even flip through the boycott motion text

By Mary Rizzo • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Education, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
Last week might have been a week when history was made. There would have been a precedent set that would from that point onwards made a change in very many ways, one comparable to fulfilling the request the ANC made in South Africa. At first, the ANC request was seen as merely symbolic, [...]

A Plea to Norway's University of Trondheim to Boycott Israel

By Guest Post • Nov 3rd, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Education, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

It is shocking that the world accepts Israel’s genocides and threats against its neighbors as fait accompli without regard to the never ending suffering of Palestinians under its brutal military occupation. Palestinians and Lebanese die, suffer and endure in silence in a world conditioned to accept Israel’s “right to self defense”, a euphemism for wanton murder. They die in silence, absent from the western conscience due to the blanket support of most western media outlets, none more so than in America, the nation exporting democracy and freedom through smart bombs and biased politicians who if they dare to criticize Israel jeopardize their ambitions and become the recipients of the worst media smears. In the U.S. no debate or action is allowed against Israel either by our own “never challenge Israel” government or by our staunchly Pro-Israel media.