Comments on: Technion students hit back…and the PM waves her anti-BDS flag

By: Otto Waldmann

Otto Waldmann — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:13:10 +0000

Point is that, while universities have been traditionally ( in fact just after the 1st decade 19th Century ) hot beds for political activism, one of the first such agitations had a distinctive anti Semitic character.
Starting with 1819, the “hip-hip” German universities movement targeted exclusively Jewish students. So, nothing at all has changed here.
As all this activism is, most definitely, extra-curicullar, one wonders how much time do the students up on the BDS barricades devote to ACTUAL mental improvement, because, considering the full dedication of the malice and stupidity of their full time political/insurectional enthusiasm, there would be no time left for intellectual improvement, the ACTUAL function of being a uni. student. Consequently, the “substance” of this current anti-academic activity is a precise reflection of their “brain power”, a clear example of a massive ZERO.

By: Paul Winter

Paul Winter — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:48:33 +0000

Yes indeed, our PM has taken the right approach. The BDS movement is exceedingly unhelpful with regard to the “two state solution” on which the international community is fixated, often superficially and hypocritically. The BDS movement, so ardently backed by the PA is, in truth, a denial of two states for two people; it calls for the destruction of Israel, the nation state of a people the mohammedans claim do no exist and are not recognised.

The Technion students’ statement is absolutely right and absolutely clueless. The BDS movement is founded on Jew hatred, based on religion, copying Soviet antisemitism. Technion students are trying to reason with irrational people.

What Julia Gillard should do is to defund the antisemitic indoctrination program run by Jake Lynch, because that is what the so-called peace and conflict studies at Sydney Uni with its openly Jew-hating guest lecturer really is. If money is short, universities have better ways of spending it than on hate creation and truth bending cadre creators.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:41:08 +0000

Once again, well done, Julia Gillard. We may be greatly at odds with you on your recent willingness to sacrifice the quality of our universities in the name of “School Reform”, but on these two issues (the Technion and Max Brenner) you are “right on”. Let’s hope that in Australian universities we still have students of a calibre to benefit from interaction with creative, innovative and brilliant students and faculty of the Technion.