>I would agree wholeheartedly that it is wrong to boycott Israeli nationals
>living abroad, but I cannot see the difference between boycotting Israeli
>academic institutions and boycotting any other area of the Israeli economy. I
>don't see why universities should be exempt on the basis of some notion that
>they are ostensibly places of high learning and humanism. At any rate, I don't
>think I would waste much time with the finer points of this argument, which is
>bound to generate acrimonious accusations of personal bias. Israel requires
>sanctions, not boycotts. Or at least it requires that we stop supporting and
>inciting them.
Puts Americans in a rather odd position, since we fund and arm Israel. Do we boycott ourselves?
Doug