It is the aggressors, namely the “Palestinians” and the Arab states who should be boycotted since they have been opposing the human rights of the Jewish People for more than a century; and they are indulged by dupes in the West who reinforce their abominable conduct.

The violators of human rights are those who seek to weaken Israel by disseminating myths about it. The Israelis who work on defence projects are the upholders of human rights. More strength to them.
Israel’s enemies operate on the premise that one of their human rights is to wage war against Israelis by slitting Jewish babies’ throats, blowing up hotels and buses, using human shields etc.
In the 1930’s and 1940’s quite a few academics in the West collaborated with communism, rationalising its monstrous crimes; nowadays there is a parallel at work: demonising Israel for defending Jews and absolving the enemy of its abominable conduct.

It is the aggressors in the conflict who should be penalised; those aggressors are the “Palestinians” and the Arab states. Those entities refuse to recognise the human rights of the Jewish People, and have for a century waged war against us, using illegal means such as human shields, targeting civilians, maintaining economic boycotts.
That they have a demographic and petroleum advantage over us in no way justifies appeasing them; nor does it justify slanderous, baseless accusations against Israel.

The “occupation” myth is used by appeasers and self-righteous grandstanders to rationalise their support for the Arab cause, which is the dissolution of Israel.
And so the learned weighty opinions of international lawyers who demonstrate the vacuity of that myth are ignored constantly by certain academics and intellectuals who have pretensions to proficiency in evidence-based conclusions. The result of such a counter-intellectual approach is that certain universities are becoming production lines of groupthink.
An example is Sydney University’s Peace Centre: it does not tolerate pro-Zionist points of view because its agenda is not education but propagation (of its peculiar ideology.)
Thus do some privileged people who are on the public payroll abuse their positions of trust and thus do they create a generation of Orwellian proles.

The “Palestinian” cause is and has always been the dissolution of Israel.
It’s unreasonable to expect Jews to support that cause.

He is opposed to the “Occupation” . It is the “Occupation” that is the root cause of Israel’s problems.. Therefore we need to find a formula that punishes Israel in order to save the Israelis from themselves. Everything else will then fall into place.

Leaving aside the sheer chutzpah, even cowardice, of this from the safe side of the planet, it begs the question where has he and the rest of the Peter Beinart left been for the last 45 years. In a cave on Mars in blindfolds and with their fingers in their ears?

This kind of sloppy intellectual laziness is no longer acceptable. The world has become too dangerous and this nonsense has become too useful to the enemy for that.. It must be firmly denounced. We haven’t got the time to waste on this easy, squalid sideshow. There are some seriously dangerous evils once again loose in the world and it is the easiest and oldest antisemitic smear in the books to blame the Jews or Israel for this hatred directed at them .

Che Gorilla

http://geofffff.blogspot.com.au/
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Gina
The “new” South Africa lost its moral compass long ago and plays third world solidarity politics.
They keep Mugabe in power and kept Al Bashir the Sudanese genocidal racist mass murderer out of the ICJ
Remember the Durban conference? A disgrace at every level.
Kasrils has been an anti Israel communist ideologue all along and not paricularly honest either
Dugard has been shown( See UN Watch )to be completely prejudiced pro Palestinian and his travelling “Trial” roadshow is just a self indulgent joke. The only question is who is paying?
Bishop Tutu would have more credibility if he acted for Christians being persecuted in Moslem world.
That he only needs to act and call, for BDS when it comes to Palestine speaks for itself and reflects the “new” South Africa,likely the next Zimbabwe.

Larry
I read the article.
It is full of leftist jargon & slogans,such as the Arabs are indigenous and by implication Jews are not.
That is the PA line recently repeated by Abbas in the UN.
Defence R&D is NOT automatic oppression of Palestinians and it is both dishonest and partisan to claim otherwise.
The default position that Palestinians want peaceful co existence and it is just Israel that is at fault , is at best naive but we know it is much more than that Any cursory reading of the Arab especially PA & Hamas media gives lie to the claim that PA & Hamas want to live at peace side by side
As for the numerous “special filters” that keep out Palestinians there are lots of words and claims but no hard irrefutable facts presented.
The very tone of the article reeks of propaganda
In my experience Arabs in Israeli Universities do NOT keep their heads down,on the contrary..

The “new ” South Africa lost its moral compass long ago and just plays third world politics
Mugabe without their active support would be gone long ago
South Africa voted in the UNSC to prevent the genocidal murderer Al Bashir of Sudan being sent to the ICC
The same South Africa that is corrupt from top down murdered its striking miners recently.
Kasrils is a doctrinaire communist Israel hater and has always been hostile to Israel
Bishop Tutu would have some credibility if he acted against the murder and persecution of Christians and animists, let alone what Islamists are doing now
http://blog.unwatch.org.
Five Facts About John Dugard

The resolution adopted at yesterday’s Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council slammed Israel and decided “to dispatch an urgent fact-finding mission headed by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.”

Given the explicit bias that characterized the Special Session proceedings from start to finish, it actually makes perfect sense to have John Dugard head its fact-finding mission.

Consider the following five facts about our newly named fact-finder:

1. The mandate of special rapporteur on Palestine — created in 1993 by the discredited and now defunct UN Commission on Human Rights — is to investigate only violations by Israel, a one-sided duty John Dugard has zealously embraced since his appointment to the post in 2001. His reports stand out, even by UN standards, for their virulently anti-Israel prejudice. Not only does Dugard systematically ignore Palestinian acts of terror and their victims, but he has gone so far as to laud Palestinian “militarized groups armed with rifles, mortars, and Kassam-2 rockets [who] confront the [Israeli army] with new determination, daring, and success.” (See examples here.)

2. There are many UN figures who like to lambaste Israel. But Mr. Dugard has the dubious distinction of being the only appointee of the UN who regularly rails against the UN-sponsored Quartet and its Road Map for Middle East Peace. Last summer, he even managed to convince seven other UN experts to join him in this bizarre line of attack.

3. Mr. Dugard’s presentation on Wednesday at the Special Session dutifully lambasted the Quartet several times, suggesting that the UN’s membership in the grouping rendered it pro-Israel. (Yes, and Al Qaeda is too pro-American.) “Whether [the EU and the UN] can act as ‘honest brokers’ while remaining members of the Quartet is, however, questionable.” All of this, needless to say, flies in the face of the actions and recommendations of the Security Council and the Secretary-General, which have strongly endorsed and encouraged the UN role in the Quartet.

4. Much worse, though, was the opening of his Wednesday presentation. “At the outset I wish to make it clear that I have every sympathy for Corporal Gilad Shalit; and indeed for all Israel’s young soldiers compelled to serve in the army of an occupying power.” (emphasis added) In other words, Professor Dugard could not bring himself to express sympathy for the captured soldier without wrapping it in a sharp stab, drenched with cynicism, at Israel’s morality. We’ve seen nothing to suggest Corporal Shalit has felt anything other than patriotic about his service. One imagines that the vast majority of Israelis feel proud and justified in defending their country, and would find Dugard’s “sympathy” — for their being “compelled to serve in the army of an occupying power” –nothing short of insulting and contemptible.

5. In his August 2005 report, Dugard for the first time broke instructions and explained that he felt compelled to address Palestinian violations as well. Would Dugard finally say a few words about Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism? No. What caused him to break his instructions was an issue of Palestinian victims — those who suffer from the Palestinian Authority death penalty. “The Special Rapporteur’s mandate,” Dugard acknowledged, “does not extend to human rights violations committed by the Palestinian Authority. It would, however, be irresponsible for a human rights special rapporteur to allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners to go unnoticed. . . The Special Rapporteur expresses the hope that these executions were aberrations and that the Palestinian Authority will in future refrain from this form of punishment.” (August 2005 report.)

Nothing wrong with protesting a justice system whose methods make IRA “knee-capping” look tame by comparison. What is shocking, though, is that Dugard for the first time demonstrated that he is perfectly free in his reports to reference the terror faced daily by Israeli civilians — more than 140 separate suicide attacks, and 13,730 shooting attacks, over the past four years — and free to mention the attempted mega-terror attacks against Israeli skyscrapers, ports and fuel depots, which could easily have taken the lives of thousands more. All of this, Dugard has shown, he is free to mention. He simply chooses not to. To paraphrase Dugard’s moral justification of his mandate as quoted above, it is, apparently, perfectly responsible for a human rights special rapporteur to allow the killing of Israelis to go unnoticed.

No Madam you are not doing what you ” can” you just do not want to know.