This has got to be one of the funniest stories of the dog days of August. Never Gordon, a leftwing professor at Ben-Gurion University, published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, supporting the BDS movement (that's boycott, divestment, and sanctions) against Israel. In other words, Gordon called for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel here.
Some Los Angeles Jews have responded by threatening to cut-off donations to Ben-Gurion University.
which is, of course, what Gordon was calling for!
So maybe this should now be the tactic of supporters of BDS in Israel: Get leftwing academics from all the universities to call for boycotts, and then angry Jews will response by cutting off funds from their university.
I know, I know. Gordon is not the first Israeli academic to join the BDS movement. Let's not forget Ilan Pappe when he was still at Haifa, and the late Tanya Reinhart, who did the same while at Tel Aviv. And there are others.
But Gordon is the first Israeli academic to get an op-ed in a major metropolitan newspaper with a major Jewish community, and the largest concentration of Israelis outside of Israel (I think). If the LA Jews don't give their money to BGU, maybe they can be convinced not to give their money to any of the Israeli universities.
Except to Bar-Ilan and the pseudo-university, the College of Judea and Samaria.
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RE: Some Los Angeles Jews have responded by threatening to cut-off donations to Ben-Gurion University, which is, of course, what Gordon was calling for!
MY COMMENT: That Neve Gordon is so diabolically clever!
"pseudo-university, the College of Judea and Samaria"
Why? Because they disagree with you? There are plenty of right-wing people scattered around Israel's campuses! Neve Gordon just wants to attract attention to himself-like Silverstein.
an excellent example of the idiocy of the 'bds' movement.
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