Quoting "Stan Goodman" <[email protected]>:
On Monday 06 June 2011 at 09:58:36 (GMT+2) Shachar Shemesh
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 06/06/11 03:05, Stan Goodman wrote:
> 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.
If, as you said, the Israeli academia were unanimously left wing,
then silencing them will not significantly decrease the diversity of
thought that the academia is supposed to encourage. It is precisely
because Israel is a potential source for dissenting view that anyone
calling for an academic boycott on Israel is undermining their own
academic legitimacy.
Nowhere have I said that Israeli academics are unanimously left wing.
Everyone know, however, that many are, and that Ilan Pappe was not alone
before he took his nonsense to the more "kosher" environment of the UK.
Nor have I said that the phenomenon is unique to Israel -- the same
thing can be observed in the US, Canada, and especially almost anyplace
in Europe. I have CERTAINLY not intimated that I wish to stifle dissent
or silence leftists from expressing their ideas, foolish though they may
be.
I have not understood, on the other hand, why so many evidently
intelligent people fall for a destructive philosophy. That is a
relatively new phenomenon; I do not remember it from the time when I was
at university.
There is one big fault in your argument is that you are pushing
opinions as facts.
Right wing people claim that left wing ideas are foolish and
destructive and left wing people claim that right wing ideas are
foolish and destructive. You can't use one or the other to claim that
the other side is foolish.
The only way to actually know who is right is to run with one opinion
or the other and see if we are still here to see the results.
Unfortunately, there is no way to know if the other course of action
wouldn't have yielded a better result.
And it is not clear what is the relatively new phenomenon, left wing
ideas or universities (both of which by the way existed in mid-evil
England, where the king kept them far enough not to cause trouble and
close enough to keep an eye on. By the way, college heads at the time
head the right to execute students).
--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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