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		<title>Norm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hirsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Geras isn&#8217;t well.  Everyone associated with Engage wishes him the very best. He has written with clarity and commitment about contemporary antisemitism for longer than Engage has been in existence.  He writes about lots of other things too. On Alibi Antisemitism &#8211; major piece in fathom.  (Jan 2013) On Greg Philo&#8217;s work which says [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engageonline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5890231&#038;post=6645&#038;subd=engageonline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Left-wing Israeli academics, shunned at home and abroad &#8211; Or Tshuva</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 12:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hirsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece, by Or Tshuva, is on Haaretz.com. Growing support for an academic boycott of Israel abroad and subtle censorship at home make it hard for Israeli scholars to play a role in moving their country toward peace. Countless words have been written in the past week about British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engageonline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5890231&#038;post=6641&#038;subd=engageonline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking&#8217;s Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more  &#8211; Howard Jacobson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 06:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hirsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece is by Howard Jacobson, in The Indpendent. Why is Israel alone of all offending countries to be boycotted? Perhaps because it&#8217;s that offending country which also just happens to be Jewish? Gather round, everybody. I bear important news. Anti-Semitism no longer exists! Ring out, ye bells, the longest hatred has ceased to be. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engageonline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5890231&#038;post=6638&#038;subd=engageonline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hannah Weisfeld on Stephen Hawking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 15:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found Hannah Weisfeld’s recent post, ‘Hawking’s Israel boycott in its UK context’ curiously elusive.  The first paragraph mostly consists of a series of factual statements – with no clue as to whether the author approves of his decision to pull out of the Presidential Conference or not.  The exception is the very opening sentence [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engageonline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5890231&#038;post=6615&#038;subd=engageonline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some reading for Stephen Hawking to catch up on concerning the campaign to exclude Israelis from the global academic community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hirsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Yudkin’s argument against the academic boycott campaign.  click here.  (2007) David Hirsh on the antisemitism which comes with the boycott campaign.  (2013) Cure worse than the disease: academic boycott of Israel in the light of the academic boycott of South Africa &#8211; Mira Vogel (2007) Mira Vogel on PACBI (2008) Engage response to BRICUP [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engageonline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5890231&#038;post=6603&#038;subd=engageonline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review by Robert Fine: &#8220;Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity&#8221;, Shmule Feiner</title>
		<link>http://engageonline.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/book-review-by-robert-fine-moses-mendelssohn-sage-of-modernity-shmule-feiner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hirsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mendelssohn’s resistance to social prejudice against Jews, even when it came from within the liberal enlightenment, speaks to us today.  Shmuel Feiner’s fine biography of Moses Mendelssohn shows us just how radical was the very ‘German’ moderation of this 18th century Jewish German philosopher.  By rejecting the Faustian pact that Jews were supposed to enter, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engageonline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5890231&#038;post=6595&#038;subd=engageonline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eve Garrard on &#8220;The Pleasures of Anti-Semitism&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 14:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hirsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eve&#8217;s piece is on normblog here and a version is also coming out in fathom. &#8220;Antisemitism is much more than a cognitive error. It attracts by providing the deep emotional satisfactions of hatred, tradition, and moral purity.&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;Anti-Semitism is fun, there&#8217;s no doubt about it. You can&#8217;t miss the relish with which some people [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engageonline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5890231&#038;post=6593&#038;subd=engageonline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St Andrews J-Soc Ball cancelled following threats</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s4r4hbrown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was reported this morning that the Golf Hotel in St Andrews had cancelled a J-Soc Ball, scheduled for tonight, because of pressure from protestors who objected to the fact that proceeds from the ball were going to support charities which included the Jewish National Fund and Friends of the Israeli Defence Forces, as well [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engageonline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5890231&#038;post=6583&#038;subd=engageonline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zionism is a lightning rod for antisemitism &#8211; Jonathan Lowenstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Vogel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Lowenstein, an Anglo-Israel historian and political scientist, considers historical boycotts against Jews, asks a lot of good questions, and worries: &#8220;Am I an Israeli academic?  I have dual nationality and dual degrees. Do boycotts apply to Israeli Arabs or just to Jews?  Where do you draw the lines? At present it seems like these [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engageonline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5890231&#038;post=6579&#038;subd=engageonline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Irish union&#8217;s boycott fallacy &#8211; Raphael Cohen-Almagor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Vogel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish Chronicle has a trenchant piece by Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Director of the Middle East Study Group, University of Hull, responding to the unhinged and futile decision of the Teachers Union of Ireland to boycott Israeli academics: Dr Ilan Saban is a lecturer at the University of Haifa who devotes much of his time defending [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engageonline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5890231&#038;post=6575&#038;subd=engageonline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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