lunedì 4 giugno 2007

boycott

il racconto di Benny Tziper che ogni venerdì va a manifestare pacificamente (una manifestazione fatta da israeliani e palestinesi insieme) davanti al muro nel villaggio di Bil'in, vicino a Tel Aviv, close to Tel Aviv and central Israel and to all the fake leftists who inhabit Tel Aviv’s coffee shops, dove si fa presto ad assumere atteggiamenti fricchettoni e a definirsi di sinistra senza poi fare nulla di concreto.
It’s easiest to cry over the occupation from afar, without ever seeing a Palestinian close up. I believe that there may not be a solution to the Palestinian issue, but that’s nothing to do with the fact that one can act like a human being and to show Palestinians, who are imprisoned behind fences and walls only a few kilometers from us, that we share their pain and sadness.

il suo commento, e l'approvazione, alla campagna di boicottaggio da parte dei docenti universitari in Gran Bretagna, definiti da Israele antiebrei.
It is true that it is not the professors in the universities who are oppressing Palestinians, but in their silence, they are approving of the atrocities. And with their huge egos they ignore what is happening at spitting distance from them: that there are professors and lecturers just like them who can be treated like dogs by every pissy soldier, whose decision it is whether or not they will give their lesson today, and all this because they are Palestinians (...) true civilization means fighting for the academic freedoms and for the rights of those who do not have them.
You know what? I’m am looking forward to the day when every Israeli who took part in the evils of the occupation will be refused entry into England. I want to see the faces of all those young heros, who throw tear gas canisters at elderly women and who chase a disabled man in a wheelchair, and then when they’re done with the army travel to India and become spiritual.
(fonte We deserve the British Academic Boycott!, l'originale in ebraico su Haaretz)

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