NAFTHE holds Israeli academics to a different standard than academics from other countries. Which is exactly what Siva Vaidhyanathan’s amusing post is pointing out. If NAFTHE’s action is not motivated by anti-semitism, what’s the reason?

True enough. Israelis have put settler colonies with about 400,000 settlers on the land conquered in 1967. Batshit crazy is one way of putting it. A permanent policy motivated by racist hatred of arabs is another.

It’s just not possible to think that anything NAFTHE is doing is more objectionable than what Israel has done and is doing.

Yes there is. Israel is seen as a country one can reason with, unlike Russia and the various countries that contain Kurdistan.

And therefore…the rest of your comment has no basis.

Conference notes the victory of HAMAS in the recent Palestine Authority elections.

Conference condemns the hysterical reporting of the result by most of the British news media and the outrageous bias shown by UK Government statements against the outcome of a democratic process

Now recall, if you will, that the preamble of the founding charter of Hamas cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Recall that Hamas regularly cites a piece of Muslim eschatology about Jews hiding behind trees and the trees crying out “there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” Recall that Hamas’s fighters regularly use the Nazi salute. (Yes, the salute is of American origin, but Hamas’s men are not paying homage to the Bellamy brothers when they use it.) Recall that Hamas’s publications regularly speak in overt praise of Hitler.

Recall that Hamas’s platform calls for restoring the formal inferiority of non-Muslims to Muslims, as specified in their take on Sharia Law.

The proponents of the NATFE resolution are well aware of all this; it is absurd to think otherwise. Their response, is willfull blindness.

It takes willful blindness to call the British government’s treatment of Hamas as “outrageous” when you know Hamas is a racist, antisemitic, and genocide-minded party.

There is a word that fittingly describes people who treat displays of antisemitism with willful blindness. The word is “antisemitic.” The proponents of the NAFTHE resolution have spent considerable time and effort providing the world with evidence of their antisemitism. The jackboot fits and they should wear it. BTW, Henry, to describe them as antisemites does not ascribe them with importance or world historical significance.

Henry, have you paid enough attention to all national conflicts? How much efforts, i.e. blogging have you done for the pure Kurds? Have you supported the French Canadians, etc.

Sunners is not stupid; you are an Anti-Semite, though only when Israel is concern (what a relief).

Not that this stops it being a remarkably stupid idea, of course.