Comments on: Boycott backlash https://www.yourish.com/2009/09/02/8703 Cutting straight to the point Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2009/09/02/8703/comment-page-1#comment-37477 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:58:35 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2009/09/02/8703#comment-37477 Think of collaborations like that of Carmi’s lab at BGU and what that lab can contribute to the well-being of people in the Middle East. Just think what might have been if the Arabs had said “Welcome” to the Jews instead of responding to a new Jewish state with the cry “Kill the Jews.” Way to shoot yourselves in the foot guys.

They would not have to assume any altruism on the part of the Jews either, as I’m sure they would not whatever the facts. They might have said “We’ve been having a helluva time adapting to this here modern world. That weakens us and makes us poorer compared to the Europeans than we were centuries ago. The Jews are the people who adapted most quickly and competently to the modern world. Just think what we could do together. And all they want is a homeland for refuge from persecution in a little strip of land that, for us, is an impoverished backwater. What a deal.”

But their vanity would not permit it. Learn from Jews? Let Jews have their own state? Never. The Arabs missed a big chance. And if the Palestinian Arabs and the Iranians and the others ever get the chance they will do to Carmi’s lab and everything else the Jews have built since the First Aliyah what the Arabs of Gaza did to those greenhouses American Jews paid for to turn over to the Arabs as working businesses.

]]> By: Sabba Hillel https://www.yourish.com/2009/09/02/8703/comment-page-1#comment-37471 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:12:21 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2009/09/02/8703#comment-37471 I agree with Gordon in one respect. He should be the object of a boycott by everyone including honest academicians. Of course, no-one else should have to suffer for his idiocy. Thus, Ben Gurion University should be included explicitly on the list of invitees to every conference. However, whenever Ben Gurion University is invited to a meeting, there should be a postscript, that Gordon is not invited.

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