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Boycott notion is blasted, By Mark Scodie, The Jewish Chronicle, 25/08/2005
A NATIONAL postgraduate education conference hosted an Israeli academic in a gesture meant to signal their disagreement with the Association of University Teachers' attempt to boycott two Israeli universities earlier this year. Bar-Ilan University's Prof-essor Gerald Steinberg took the podium at the conference, organised by the National Postgraduate Committee at Glasgow's Strathclyde Univer-sity. Conference secretary Dun-can Connors told the JC that "academic freedom is more important than politics. As a body, we believe the work of postgraduates would be hindered in general and specifically in computer science, physics and and medicine by a boycott. Personally, I feel the AUT boycott was based on very shaky criteria. Even at the height of apartheid, they never boycotted South African universities." An AUT conference passed a resolution in April to end contact with Bar-Ilan University and Haifa University, but this decision was overturned the following month. Professor Steinberg told an audience of some 40 student and staff representatives that the boycott attempt had been "politically correct but morally incorrect." He blasted the claim that Israel was an apartheid state, which had been promoted by Palestinian and Arab delegates at a controversial UN Anti-Racism Conference in Durban in 2001. "The accusation is itself racist to Israel, because it denies Jewish people the right to self-determination," Professor Steinberg asserted.
Israel and Gaza beach - when politics trumps human rights
Gerald Steinberg, ON LINE opinion, 23 June 2006
Gaza beach and how NGOs and the media jumped to the wrong conclusions and then pushed them without evidence
Report on "Holocaust in the Holyland Week" Allyson Rowen Taylor, Zionism On The Web, May 22, 2006
A report on three days at UC Irvine as a witness to hate speech and gross misrepresentations of Jews, Israeli's Americans and Zionists
Rachel Corrie, Rachel Thaler and many other Rachels besides
Comparison of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict with Apartheid South Africa Shimon Zachary Klein
These days it is becoming very popular to compare the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with apartheid South Africa prior to 1994. This article explains both situations and perverseness of such a comparison.
The myth of international law Gerald M Steinberg The Jerusalem Post, Oct. 15, 2005
Has international law has become another weapon in political warfare, without any moral authority?
Muslim antisemitism and anti-Zionism explained Denis MacEoin provides a history of Muslim attitudes to Jews and the background to Islamic antisemitism and anti-Zionism, a ZOTW feature
Irene Lancaster is alarmed by the anti-Semitism that she finds in the Church of England Irene Lancaster, the Church Times, August 19th,2005
Academic Freedom and the AUT Boycott Campaign: Examining the Lessons Prof Gerald Steinberg, National Postgraduate Committee (UK) Annual Conference, August 12 2005
Why I am A Zionist Gil Troy The Montreal Gazette, 26 April 2001
Anti-Zionism is Racism Judea Pearl, The New York Jewish Week, 2005
Israel Zionism and the Church Prof Paul C Merkely , the campaign of the Churches is against Israel's very right to exist
Zionism is not a 'settler-colonial undertaking' David Hoffman , Mail & Guardian (South Africa), 28 June 2005
A forum explanation of Zionism Transc3ndent , an Israeli corrects the misconceptions in a forum
Reclaiming Zionism's Good Name and Proud History: A Challenge for the Jewish Intelligencia Gil Troy Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Online Digest - 11.2.03
Self-critical without self-loathing Gil Troy The Canadian Jewish News Internet Edition - August 27, 2003
Language as a tool against Jews and Israel Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 1, 2004
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