Date: Sun May 1, 2005 8:20 pm
Subject: Boycott Israel mamubhi Source
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shonar-bangla/message/1585 Statewide Academic Union Calls for University of Wisconsin Israel Divestment
Press Release, Al-Awda Wisconsin, 27 April 2005
(Madison, WI- 04/27/05) - The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (TAUWP) has adopted a resolution that calls on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to divest from companies that provide the Israeli Army with weapons, equipment, and supporting systems. TAUWP is a statewide local of the American Federation of
Teachers-Wisconsin representing faculty and academic staff from 25 University of Wisconsin campuses. The resolution was passed at the TAUWP delegate assembly on April 23rd by a vote of 24 to 2, with four
abstentions.
Citing the precedent set by the University of Wisconsin's elimination of investments in apartheid era South Africa, the resolution urged
divestment from Boeing, Caterpillar, General Dynamics, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, and Raytheon 'based on evidence of the active role these companies play in enabling Israeli
forces to engage in practices that violate international law and the human rights of the Palestinian people.' The University of Wisconsin
Trust Fund's investments in the companies specified by the resolution exceed $3.8 Million.
The resolution is part of The University of Wisconsin Divest from Israel Campaign, a project led by Al-Awda Wisconsin (The Palestine Right to Return Coalition), in partnership with several local social justice, student, and community organizations. The campaign gained significant momentum when the Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville passed a similar resolution at it's regular meeting on January 25th 2005. The UW-Platteville senate became the
first University faculty body in the United States to adopt a resolution calling for divestment from companies providing material aid to Israel. A similar resolution was adopted by the Teaching Assistant Association and called on the Board of Regents to divest from weapon manufacturers.
TAUWP cited reports by independent international, Palestinian, and Israeli Human Rights organizations that document widespread war crimes and human rights violations committed against Palestinian civilians. It was pointed out that in many instances, these abuses are perpetrated using weapons and equipment manufactured by the companies identified in the resolution. Holdings in these companies
are therefore contrary to the University of Wisconsin's code of socially responsible investment, which requires the Board to divest from companies whose corporate practices or policies are
discriminatory or cause substantial social injury.
Caterpillar Corporation - one of the companies identified in the resolution - provides the Israeli Army with the D-9 bulldozer and other equipment used to carry out widespread and systematic
demolition of Palestinian civilian homes, acts which have been classified by the UN Commission on Human Rights as war crimes.
Numerous civil society institutions have recently voiced support for divestment from Israel. The Presbyterian Church (USA) has resolved to
divest its portfolio from companies aiding Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands. Earlier this year, the World Council of Churches recommended that its 347 member churches and denominations follow
the example of the PCUSA. Other churches such as the Anglican Church, United Methodist Church, and United Church of Christ are currently considering divesting their investment portfolios from companies with
links to Israel. Several US-based labor unions, and organizations such as the National Lawyers Guild, have endorsed divestment from Israel. Last week, the Association of University Teachers, the UK's largest lecturer's union, voted to boycott two Israeli universities for their role in facilitating human rights violations perpetrated by the Israel government.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3802.shtml From: "brucesim1950"
Date: Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:33 pm
Re: Anti-Semite-Child-Molesters And Australian Racists brucesim1950
I would fight. But I would not fight civillians.
Bruce
From: sanjay pandey
Date: Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:39 pm
Re: Anti-Semite-Child-Molesters And Australian Racists
s_pandey_india
Bruce,
Just a curious thought.
What would you do if you were a Palestinian? Surrender to Israel and leave the land of your ancestors or fight with whatever you get?
Curiously,
Sanjay
From: sanjay pandey
Date: Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:46 pm
Subject: Re: [freeamericanow] Re: Anti-Semite-Child-Molesters And Australian Racists
Bruce,
Do you mean to say that Australia supports the Israeli suppression of Palestines. The bombings and everything.
So the minister is doing what politicians always do. Lying. That I can understand. They are the same all over the world.
Sanjay
--- brucesim1950 wrote:
From what I gather they called for a boycott on academic and cultural ties with Israel. I don't see the need as Israel is an ally of Australia but I also do not see that it would cause any harm either.
It has been my experience that most academics are cloistered wankers.
Cheers Bruce
Bruce,
How can boycotting the universities which approve of Israeli oppression in Palestine harm average Australian as claimed by the minister.
I am puzzled.
Sanjay
To
Professor Moshe Kaveh
President
Bar Ilan University
Dear Sir
In various media interviews today you expressed anger at the decision of British university lecturers to declare a boycott against the Bar-Ilan University, calling it "an unacceptable mixing of politics
into academic life". When asked about the "Judea and Samaria College" which your university maintains at the settlement of Ariel, you stated that this was "an entirely non-political issue" and that said college was nothing more than "the largest of five colleges which Bar Ilan maintains at different locations in Israel". Indeed, you declared yourself and your colleagues to be proud of the decision to establish the Ariel college, and you felt no contradiction between continuing to maintain that college, at the investment of a considerable part of Bar Ilan's total resources, and the maintenance of extensive ties with universities worldwide, including in Britain.
As an example you mentioned your own ties as a physicist with Cambridge University and your plans to spend some time at Cambridge this summer - plans which, as you stated, remain unchanged also in the wake of the British lecturers' decision.
Surely, a person of your intelligence and experience can be expected to note the obvious contradictions in the above position. As you well know, Ariel is not "a location in Israel". Rather, Ariel is a location in a territory under military occupation, a territory which is not and has never been part of the state of Israel. Moreover, Ariel is a special kind of location: it is an armed enclave, created by armed force and dependent for its continued existence on force, and force alone.
The creation of Ariel is a severe violation of international law, specifically of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which specifically forbids an occupying power from transferring and settling its own
citizens in the occupied territory. On the ground, the creation and maintenance of Ariel entailed and continues to entail untold hardships to the Palestinians who happen to live in the nearby town of Salfit and in numerous villages a long distance all around. Palestinian inhabitants are exposed to ongoing confiscation of their land so as to feed the land hunger of the ever-expending Ariel settlement, and their daily life are subjected to increasingly stringent travel limitations in the name of "preserving the settlers' security".
The government-approved plans to extend the "Separation Fence" so as to create a corridor linking Ariel to the Israeli border necessitate
the confiscation of yet more vast tracts of Palestinian land, depriving thousands of villagers of their sole source of livelihood. Moreover, should the Ariel corridor be completed, it would cut deeply
through the territory which the international community earmarked for creation of a Palestinian state, depriving that state of territorial
continuity and viability. For that reason, the plan aroused widespread international opposition, not least from the United States, our main ally on the international arena.
In all of this the Bar Ilan University, of which you are president,
made itself a major partner - indeed,since a violation of
international law is involved, the term "accomplice" may well be
used. The "Judea and Samaria College" which you and your colleagues
established and nurtured has a central role in the settlement of
Ariel, increasing its population and its economic clout. The
college's faculty and students are prime users of the "Trans-Samaria
Road", the four-lane highway which was created on confiscated
Palestinian land in order to provide quick transportation to Ariel.
The Palestinian villagers on whose land this highway was built are
excluded from using it. They are relegated to a rugged, bumpy
mountain trail.
It is you and your colleagues, Professor Kaveh, who started mixing
academics with politics. A very heavy mixture, such as few
universities anywhere ever engaged in. You cannot really complain
when people in Britain, who have different standards for what is the
proper moral behavior of academics (or for human beings in general)
take action which you do not like. In fact, if you are truly proud of
establishing and maintaining the "Judea and Samaria College", you
must have the courage of your convictions and take the consequences.
Much better, of course, would be for you and your colleagues to sever
your connection with the ill-conceived settlement project - and than
you can quite rightly demand that the boycott be removed from your
university.
Yours
Uri Avnery
Gush Shalom (The Israeli Peace Bloc)
http://gush-shalom.org/biu.html GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033
http://www.gush-shalom.org/www.gush-shalom.org You brought the boycott upon yourselves
Gush Shalom letter to Bar Ilan University
From: "taxirevolution"
Date: Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:37 pm
Subject: Anti-Semite-Child-Molesters And Australian Racists
BRITAIN: Lecturers vote for Israeli boycott
On April 22, the British Association of University Teachers voted to
boycott two Israeli universities ?Haifa and Bar Ilans ?because of
their failure to speak out against the Israeli government's attacks
on Palestine. The boycott will follow a plan proscribed by a group
of 60 Palestinian academic and cultural bodies, which calls for
academics to sever links with Israeli institutions, exempting those
individuals and organisations that speak out against the brutal
occupation of Palestine. A motion to boycott Hebrew university was
deferred, after queries were raised about the claim that it evicted
Palestinians to build dormitories. Some delegates complained that
insufficient time was given to opposition to the boycott in the
debate.
From Green Left Weekly, April 27, 2005.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20c.htm or
Anti-Semite-Child-Molesters?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeamericanow/message/20553 To Whom It May Concern
20th April 2002
To All State and Federal members of Parliament All media and
community organisations
Dear sir/madam
During the Salmon Rushdie debacle of the late 80s, former CIA man
George Bush lead the Gulf massacre of the 90箂; before and after the
September 11 tragedy, many sections of the media went on to
ostracise, vilify and thereby unfairly promote prejudice and bigotry
against Australians of Arab and Muslim background. However, NOT one
Muslim nor one Arab Australian was ever convicted of any offence
relating to the above mentioned unwarranted incidences.
I therefore would like to request that you take necessary action
leading to prevention of the wholesale prejudice and bigotry against
Australians of Arab and Muslim background.A particular focus on the
conduct of the Sydney radio talk - back industry would be a useful
starting point.
With thanks
taxifaruque
Moderator
Free America Now
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeamericanow Source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeamericanow/message/25 2/20/2005 Racist Is Not A Racist
The News: The European academics have suspended contact with their
Israeli counterparts and they will continue to do so untill
andunless Israel starts a meaningful peace negotiation with the
Palestinians. However, the zionised (?) Australian media kept this
news secret from us. The moderator of the Free America Now
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeamericanow approached a few Australian academics and questioned the reason(s) of their
shortcomings in this reagard and they have displayed their ignorance
of the issue. However, a few days later Australian academics
followed their European counterparts footstep and found themselves
under attack from the disgusting Zionised Australian government. Can
you tell us what happening in your part of the world?
"Petition Racist'A PETITION circulating in Australian universities
calling for aboycott of academic and cultural ties with Israel has
been slammed by the Federal Government.The petition has been signed
by academics from major universities.However, Multicultural Affairs
Minister Gary Hardgrave said the petition was racist and academics
should reject it."It is un-Australian to judge people other than on
the content oftheir character" Mr. Hardgrave said. "It flies in the
face of the normal behaviour of academics. "This is in itself a form
of censorship at it's very worst". Mr. Hardgrave said the petition
would hurt a lot of Australian.
Source:
http://www.sundaytelegraph.com.au/ May 28 2002 page 18 or source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeamericanow/message/94 2/20/2005
A PETITION circulating in Australian universities calling
for a boycott of academic and cultural ties with Israel has been
slammed by the Federal Government.The petition has been signed by
academics from major universities. However, Multicultural Affairs
Minister Gary Hardgrave said the petition was racist and academics
should reject it."It is un-Australian to judge people other than on
the content oftheir character" Mr. Hardgrave said. "It flies in the
face of the normal behaviour of academics. "This is in itself a form
of censorship at it's very worst".Mr. Hardgrave said the petition
would hurt a lot of Australian.
Source:
http://www.sundaytelegraph.com.au/ May 28 2002 page 18 I wonder why are the European Academics ahed of Australian
academics?
Source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeamericanow/message/87