January 29, 2009

U.S. Leftest Professors Call For Academic & Cultural Boycott Of Israel

HOPE/CHANGE!!!

For first time, U.S. professors call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel criminate assault on the Gaza Strip and its educational institutions," the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel stated in its inaugural press release last Thursday.

Speaking in its mission statement of the "censorship and silencing of the Palestine question in U.S. universities, as well as U.S. society at large," the group follows the usual pattern of such boycotts, calling for "non-violent punitive measures" against Israel, such as the implementation of divestment initiatives, "similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era."

The campaign was founded by a group of 15 academics, mostly from California, but is, "currently expanding to create a network that embraces the United States as a whole," according to David Lloyd, a professor of English at the University of Southern California who responded on behalf of the group to a Haaretz query. "The initiative was in the first place impelled by Israel's latest brutal assault on Gaza and by our determination to say enough is enough."

Hamas supporters welcome:
Asked if the group would accept the endorsement of Hamas supporters, Lloyd said, "We have no a prior policy with regard to the membership or affiliation of supporters of the boycott so long as they are in accord with the main aims stated in the press release."
I expect unrepentant terrorist Billy Ayers name will be on that list of distinguished Hamas supporting professsors


By Stable Hand at January 29, 2009 10:23 AM | | l digg this