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The British Union of Education Workers requires Israeli scientists to abandon their country
On Monday, the largest British union of figures will vote by resolution, which recommends 67 thousand members of the Union to boycott Israeli colleagues who do not want to distance themselves from the "apartheid policy" of their country regarding the Palestinians.
In the context of this new version of the Inquisition, Jews will be asked to abandon their country if they want to be accepted in the world, writes The Wall Street Journal . The British resolution corresponds to the entire three "D" of the concept of Nathan Scharansky . She condemns not only Israel, but also the “outrageous prejudice” of the British government against Hamas. The only thing that is outrageous is in this is that these days it goes for an intellectual dialogue. (Full text on the website inopressa.ru .)
The proposal of the National Association of Teachers of Higher and Further Education does not say a direct boycott. Instead, the association "invites" its members to think about him. The Union probably hopes that an informal boycott will protect him from possible court claims with accusations of discrimination.
However, the moral responsibility for the approval of the "black lists" of Israeli figures of science and education does not disappear. The plan of the Association with the Association of University Teachers shortly after the conference will expand the scope of this agreement.
The transformation of Israeli scientists into untouchables contradicts the very essence of academic freedom. This argument helped to prevent the boycott of two Israeli universities from the Association of University Teachers last year.
In addition to academic freedom, another important question is at stake. As Harvard President Larry Summers indicated in relation to anti -Israeli campaigns in American campus, such actions are anti -Semitic in form, if not in content. Antisionists usually reject this accusation, calling him a trick, designed to make the critics of Israel silence.
However, to argue that attacks on the only Jewish state in the world can never fall to the level of anti -Semitism - this means letting fog for two thousand years of history. Anti -Semitism, together with anti -Americanism, is an adhesive that connects the left radicals with those who deserve the greatest censure: feminine, racists and anti -iliberal theocrats from the Middle East.
It was developed by Nathan Scharansky, a former Soviet dissident and ex-minister of Israel.
The first "d" is "demonization" . At dawn of the stories, Jews slandered like the "killers of Christ." Today's equivalent of this accusation is the statement that the Israelis act as the Nazis. To call Israel an Aparteid state is a sophisticated younger brother of this lie.
Demonization leads to the second "d" - "delegitimization". As Judaism was once called illegitimate, today they say that Israel does not have the right to exist.
And finally, the third "d" is "double standards" . Even if all the inflated accusations against Israel, which could be represented, were true, then why is it allocated only by him? Why are there no boycotts against the Chinese occupation of Tibet, against the brutal Russian "policy of scorched land" in Chechnya or against Sudanese genocide?