06-11-2007
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Member Since: Mar 2004
Location: Cyberia
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Re: Boycott of Israeli academe backed by UK union.
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Of course they had to ban people who have a habit of strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up innocent men, women, and children. It's not because they are Arabs. Arab Israelis go to study in Israeli universities all the time.
Perhaps if people in Gaza and the West Bank stopped launching terrorist attacks, their lives would improve.
By the way, what would happen to Israeli Jews who tried to go to university in Gaza, or Saudi Arabia, or Syria? Would they be arrested and hanged, or would they simply be lynched before they even make it to the university?
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You are as guilty of racism as the IOF if you support their blanket ban on Palestinians. This 'security' crap has been taken to extremes, milked beyond imagination, then taken to extremes again.
If Israelis want the infiltrations into their heartland to cease then they should get the hell out of the Territories. Don't you read about imperialist history and resistance ?
More good news on the peaceful resistance front;
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Pressure mounts on Israel's architects
Susannah Tarbush, The Electronic Intifada, 10 June 2007
Just days before 5 June's 40th anniversary of the start of the June 1967 war, some of the biggest names in British architecture signed a petition calling on Israeli architects and their fellow professionals to stop participating in the creation of "facts on the ground", which obliterate the idea of a viable future Palestinian state.
The petition, organised by London-based Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine (APJP), condemns "three typical projects that make Israeli architects, planners and design and construction professionals complicit in social, political and economic oppression, in violation of their professional ethics." The three projects are the E1 plan to expand the largest illegal settlement -- Ma'ale Adumim -- to link it with metropolitan Jerusalem, and developments in the village of Silwan and the deserted village of Lifta.
The signatories include Charles Jencks, Will Alsop (Stirling Prize winner in 2000), Ted Cullinan, Rick Mather and Sir Terry Farrell. The president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Jack Pringle is also a signatory as are former presidents Sir Richard MacCormack, Paul Hyett and George Ferguson and president-elect Sunand Prasad.
In all, more than 260 architects, planners, academics and others have signed the petition, from countries including Britain, Israel, Palestine, Australia, the USA, Japan, Cuba, Brazil, Finland and the Netherlands. The petition was published as an advertisement in the London newspaper The Times; the full version can be seen (and signed) on the APJP website at Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine - Home.
Coincidentally, the issuing of the petition came as the London Independent newspaper reported that Theodor Meron, who was the Israeli Foreign Ministry's legal adviser in 1967, still believes he was right to warn the Israeli government after the 1967 war that it would be illegal to build Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Judge Meron is now one of the world's leading international jurists.
ei: Pressure mounts on Israel's architects
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Just suggesting and publicising academic and professional censure highlights the illegitimacy of Israel's brutal policies.
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