#antisemitism vs #apartheid "The academic world is rising up against us": Hidden boycott threatens Israeli scientific research
Last week, a Zoom meeting was held with senior members of Israel's academia and young researchers. The senior academics expressed concern about what is happening and conveyed a sense of emergency. The President of the University of Haifa, Prof. Ron Rubin, recounted in a conversation that he visited the US during the war and felt manifestations of antisemitism "seeping into places where they have never been before. There is a hostile attitude towards Israelis even in places like medical schools. It is terrifying to the nth degree. In the past, the problem was focused on faculties for the humanities and social sciences, but the phenomenon is spreading to additional fields."
The missing word in this article must be #aprtheid... I do see #BDS and antisemitism mentioned, many times, but not a word about the fact the USA and European boycott of Israeli academia is a refusal to cooperate with a perceived apartheid regime.
Rubin assumes that "a hostile attitude towards Israelis" is due to antisemitism, (because Israelis are - mostly - 80% - Jews).
But might it be because they are Israelis, and due to the fact that the state of Israel is committing war crimes and genocide on top of practicing apartheid?
I am constantly (& correctly) warned NOT to conflate Jewishness, Zionism, and Israel. The distinction seems less clear cut now. That is dangerous.
Most Israelis will comply when it comes to an existential threat, like the Hamas attack was presented to be.
The ethos of the war of 1948 is embedded in every Israeli from child, to the same extent, if not beyond, the memory of the holocaust. These are two triggering events which can’t be ignored when evoked by military leaders, or even Netanyahu. Israelis are also very much aware of past events like kidnappings and lynching mobs (Jericho)… it’s in living memory still.
But what made things easy for israelis to not question themselves is probably the fact that the Hamas is what it is. It’s not like they have a stellar reputation. So that wrapped logic is that there needs to be e response and we’ll tell ourselves we’re going after the Hamas not civilians.
The story of one woman who Israel calls terrorist and prisoner. This is not the exception, it's the norm. She was released in the hostage deal. She was moving furniture, her car malfunctioned, caught fire. Instead of helping her get medical care, Israeli soldiers watched her burn, accused her of terrorism & arrested, interrogated & tortured her.
I've just ordered it - but it seems an important book to learn about a massive injustice. Israelis are taken as hostage for a few weeks & ppl are rightly upset. BUT when Palestinians are accused of terrorism for waving a flag, for being a 12 year old boy, for saying on social media they mourn for gaza, or a car breaking down - suffer torture in Israeli jail - fingers cut off - those people SAY NOTHING.
Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment
The Western media paint Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation as exclusively violent: armed resistance, suicide bombings, and rocket attacks. In reality these methods are the exception to what is a peaceful and creative resistance movement.
@appassionato@bookstodon@palestine I guess after appealing to the international community for decades - and being fobbed off with feeble excuses - and staging peaceful protest marches (Gaza 2018) where children and medics were murdered by Israeli forces - you must get a little desperate about exactly what tactics the world will allow you. #gaza
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1/2 Enraged Israeli spokes people are a very common sight on Western TV these days, but this exchange between Sky's Kay Burley and Israel's Eylon Levy seem to set a new low.
Speaking to Levy about Israel's decision to handover 150 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 50 Israeli children and babies, Burley said she had spoken “to a hostage negotiator” about the discrepancy in the numbers. He made the comparison between the 50 hostages that Hamas has promised to release as opposed to the 150 prisoners that are Palestinians and Israel has said that it will release, [...] Does Israel not think that Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives?"
#BanalityOfEvil [repost] “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”
About the Palestinian children Israel sent to jail. An edited extract from “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”, which was recently published by Allen Lane.
“In her work as a doctor with #UNRWA, the UN relief and works agency for Palestinian refugees, Huda saw things that made her afraid for her sons. She had witnessed a soldier shoot a boy who threw a stone at a tank. The soldiers stopped her from going to help him as he fell to the ground. At home in Sawahre, listening to the nightly news of West Bank killings and closures, she had trouble sleeping. She knew Hadi was out throwing stones.”
Investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein has won an award for his book on Israel’s military-industrial complex.
The book The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World examines how the occupied Palestinian territories are used by Israel as a testing ground for new weapons.
He won the book category at The Walkley Awards, Australia’s biggest journalism awards.
All modern nation states have a story of their origins, passed down through both official and popular culture, and yet few of these accounts have proved as divisive and influential as the Israeli national myth.
#SelfCensorship The article on the Gaza war and the Nakba was commissioned by HARVARD LAW REVIEW, edited, fact-checked, and prepared for publication — but was then blocked amid a climate of fear.
The article argued that events in #Gaza met the terms of #genocide as defined by the United Nations convention. The author also called for a legally recognised crime of “Nakba” (catastrophe), the Arab word used to describe the forced removal of Palestinians from their land and homes in 1948.
@RememberUsAlways@jiujensu@palestine@israel@bookstodon Zionists para military groups used terrorism against the Brits and the Palestinians when they first occupied Palestine. Colonialism and occupation are a form of state terrorism etc etc. so factually not a fair comment.
Shortly after the publication of the infamous Balfour Declaration, the so called “Zionist Commission for Palestine” visited #Palestine. Chaim Weizmann was clearly worried the Palestinians were not quite impressed, and made the following request to make it clearer things are going to change in the near future:
"...[But] we find among the Arabs and Syrians, or certain sections of them, a state of mind which seems to us to make useful negotiations impossible at the present moment, and so far as we are aware – though here our information may be incomplete – no official steps have been taken to bring home to the Arabs and Syrians the fact that His Majesty’s Government has expressed a definite policy with regard to the future of the Jews in Palestine”
Military Governor Colonel Ronald Storrs replied:
“Speaking myself as a convinced #Zionist, I cannot help thinking that the Commission are lacking in a sense of the dramatic actuality. #Palestine, up to now a Moslem country, has fallen into the hands of a Christian Power which on the eve of its conquest announced that a considerable portion of its land is to be handed over for #colonization purposes to a nowhere very popular people. The dispatch of a Commission of these people is subsequently announced … From the announcement in the British press until this moment there has been no sign of a hostile demonstration public or private against a project which if we may imagine England for Palestine can hardly open for the inhabitants the beatific vision of a new heaven and a new earth. The Commission was warned in Cairo of the numerous and grave misconceptions with which their enterprise was regarded and strongly advised to make a public pronouncement to put an end to those misconceptions. No such pronouncement has yet been made; …”
British Government, Public Record Office Cabinet No. 27/23 (1918). In Ingrams, Doreen. 1972. Palestine Papers, 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict. London: J. Murray. pp. 25-26.
Military Governor Colonel Ronald Storrs saying that Palestine was "up to now a Moslem country" is a rather embarrassing historical oversight, since the Jews had lived alongside pre-Islamic polytheistic groups in the region of Palestine for 2000 years before Islam came into existence with Muhammed.
@oatmeal@histodons@israel@palestine Quite a choice bit about the British admitting the Zionists for colonizing the land. Puts paid to the whole “it’s not colonialism” BS right out the gate.
Israel’s #hasbara has officially gone into overdrive, or possibly becoming more desperate. This simulation of a terrorist attack in #London (guess it has nothing to do with London seeing the biggest demonstrations in support of #Palestine) on #Xmas day is supposed to “make Brits feel what it’s like to be ‘in our shoes’ for a minute or two,” according to one of the producers.
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London.
Christmas Day.
Your home and dear ones.
What if it were you?
In Israel these days, nothing gets past #hasbara unnoticed.
"People in #Israel, #Gaza and the West Bank are reeling from the repercussions of the 7 October attacks on Israel by the militant organization #Hamas ..."