Yet another group of academics — this time in the United States – has launched an academic boycott of Israel, claiming that professors who have not publicly denounced the Israeli government are complicit in oppression.
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees is the latest group to call for a ban of Israeli academics. [...] Because across the country school boards and legislatures have mounted aggressive efforts to introduce intelligent design as a co-equal, alternate theory to evolution in public school science classes. [...] Harvard Professor J. Lorand Matory claims that he is seeking a greater civility on campus through reasoned academic discourse, but his real intention seems to be to create that civility by having only his side of the discussion be heard. [...] The Boston Zoning Commission has passed a new ordinance which will make it illegal for landlords to rent to more than four students in a single rental unit. [...] In the strange logic of UC Davis, Lawrence Summers' views are "appalling" and worthy of censorship, while Norman Finkelstein and Ward Churchill represent "diversity." [...] The group of 130 British physicians calling for a boycott of Israel Medical Association were unusually silent last week as their heroes in the struggle for self-determination in “occupied Palestine” seemed to self-destruct in wanton, seething anarchy. [...] Experts such as James Q. Wilson have noted that the inclination for young people to join gangs is understandable as a part of inner city sociopathy, and that efforts to suppress the existence of gangs is fruitless. [...] The accusations that the creation of the State of Israel led to the eradication and dispossession of a Palestinian ‘nation,’ and that Israel continues to obstruct and deny the Palestinian’s right of self-determination, are spurious at best. [...] Where a Maxwell Perkins could nurture, cajole, develop, and protect his stable of writers, publishers today have been forced to go in directions earlier editors and publishers might have thought untenable and inappropriate. [...] Johnny can't read, but at least he'll know who the oppressor is, thanks to the Wheels of Justice traveling bus tour. [...] According to this author, if Harvard is to survive Summers’ departure, real discourse and freedom of inquiry will have to be encouraged and welcomed, not stifled in the name of political correctness. [...] For decades the Arab press has used the cartoon to debase and dehumanize Jews and the State of Israel. [...] Harvard University has agreed to accept a $20 million gift from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a donor who is a member of the ruling family of a repressive, totalitarian, sexist theocracy. The Ninth Circuit has determined that public schools are free to provide education on sexual matters to children, with or without the consent and participation of parents. According to Profits with Principles, companies concerned with both profit making and providing social benefits — creating value and values — outperform businesses that focus exclusively on financial gains. [...] The New York Civil Rights Coalition recently concluded that the color-conscious policies of many colleges and universities actually “support a new form of ethnic and racial segregation in higher education.” [...] A close look at the Baltic (named after the Monopoly game's low cost property), a model of how government can help ease, rather than constrict, affordable housing creation by helping the private sector do the right thing. [...] A close examination of Al Sharpton’s history of race or “victimologist” hustling. [...] |
 
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