Comments on: NY Times sort of backs Israel

By: Ed Hausman

Ed Hausman — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:12:02 +0000

When asked about the latest British boycott, the speaker for the Foreign Ministry of Israel should just play a laugh track, and walk off sneering at the idiots.

Then go to the British government, quietly, quietly, and mention that Israeli cooperation with British academia, industry, and media will be harder and harder to come by in the future …

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:27:01 +0000

Tat, Alex was being sarcastic. It’s his raison d’etre. That, and waiting for Lucy Lawless to show up at his door on a rainy night and ask if she can get out of those wet clothes.

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:41:03 +0000

The boycotts never existed, is what I meant.

I’m going to have to stop using pronouns entirely, because I can’t seem to keep them unambiguous.

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:33:54 +0000

“Be fair,Meryl, and include the British academics’ boycotts of China for its illegal and genuinely genocidal occupation of Tibet and Saudi Arabia for its overall oppression ofwomen.”

Neither of which ever existed. We’re not so far gone yet that we feel obligated to invent stories out of the blue just to pretend there is a balance where there clearly is none.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:41:30 +0000

Be fair,Meryl, and include the British academics’ boycotts of China for its illegal and genuinely genocidal occupation of Tibet and Saudi Arabia for its overall oppression ofwomen.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:53:50 +0000

Of course, many of the Israeli leftists would join the British boycott if they could think of a way of boycotting themselves.

By: chsw

chsw — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:46:36 +0000

Perhaps Israeli academic associations should announce a counter-boycott of UK institutions. After all, in many scientific fields, Israeli researchers and their projects are far more important than their UK counterparts. In neurology alone, Israelis lead the world in MS, ALS and Parkinson’s advances. Israel produces more advances in electronic physics than the UK. In water conservation and recycling, Israelis again lead. Business start-ups – the Israelis leave the Brits in the dust. At their present rate of technical innovation, the British might have to resort to falling back on their culture, becoming some sort of giant Shakespearian/Victorian theme park. Warm beer, anyone?

chsw