Given the circumstances, I think that the most honorable thing that can be done is to have the organizers of the non-university talk - cancel it and explain to him the evilness of academic boycotts of universities which do not themselves practice discrimination or censorship of the opinions which he advocates.
--- Omer On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 03:05 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2011 at 02:54:12 (GMT+2) Hetz Ben Hamo > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi People, > > > > I just got this answer from Richard Stallman. > > > > Apparently, he *does* plan to give a talk in Israel, but not in any > > Israeli university. > > I actually find this pretty weird, considering that most of the > > universities in Israel are full of staff from the left-side of the > > political map (TAU for exmaple?) > > It's not weird at all. The screwballs who participate in boycotts are > not at all interested in details, but are grabbed by buzzwords, e.g. > "Israel". Since they themselves are students or faculty in universities, > it occurs to them to boycott other universities, never considering that > universities are precisely where they are most likely to find their > soul-mates. It's all completely logical. Compare, for example with the > British situaation, where calls for boycott originate almost exclusively > in the universities and labor unions, i.e., in all the strongholds of > the left. Left = Gauche in French, Sinister in Latin. There is probably > a language somewhere in which Left = Stupid. > -- Palestinians did not firmly and vocally and strongly denounce the Hannover attack (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/24/german-youths-attack-jewi_n_623922.html) but rather supported the attack, even though it is yet another proof why Jews need their own country in which they can live safely. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
