Thursday, February 5, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Richard L. Cravatts: Group Calls for Academic Boycott Against Israel - 'Seemingly giving proof to Orwell's observation that some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals, yet another group of academics -- this time in the United States -- has followed Britain and Canada by ignobly launching another academic boycott of Israel. What is called The U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel seeks to enjoin "participation in any form of academic and cultural cooperation, collaboration or joint projects with Israeli institutions that do not vocally oppose Israeli state policies against Palestine" and "promot[e] divestment and disinvestment from Israel by international academic institutions."...'
