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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: 12-Jul-2002 10:20:33 +0800
> From: patricia martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: UMINFO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Fw: An Open Letter on Israeli Academic boycott
>
>
>
> Original message from patricia martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> received
on 12.07.2002 10:20:33:
>
> The Chronicle of Higher Education is the leading academic news journal.
The writer of this letter is a Malaysian, my cousin.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> Dear Professor Greenblatt:
>
> I read in the Chronicle of Higher Education Online that you have written
an
> open letter, in your capacity as MLA President, to the owner/publisher of
a
> British linguistics journal, protesting her decision to fire two Israeli
> academics from her editorial board. I hope the Chronicle report is
> mistaken or incomplete in at least two respects (I am in France and have
> not been able to read your letter, so my apologies in advance if I have
> misunderstood your position).
>
> Firstly, and this is my less important concern, the owner of the journal
> has made it clear that it was not their Israeli nationality which
motivated
> her decision, but the fact that the two academics in question worked for
> Israeli universities. Israelis working for universities outside Israel
> are not affected by the boycott observed by the journal publisher. This
> may make no difference to you, but it is certainly avoids the charge that
> the two profoessors were targetted because of their Israeli nationality.
> Be that as it may, there are many of us who feel that after decades of
> systemic violations of the human rights of Palestinians, Israel is now
> morally in the position that used to be occupied by apartheid South
Africa,
> and those of us who took part in the academic boycott of South Africa find
> equal justification for a similar boycott of Israel.
>
> Secondly, and this is my primary reason for emailing you, the Chronicle
> report makes no mention of your concern for an equally weighty consequence
> of the current intifada, namely, the total breakdown for nearly a year of
> the Palestinian education system because of Israeli army blockades and
> curfews. The overwhelming majority of Palestinian college students
> cannot attend class at Bir Zeit and Al Quds universities because they are
> prevented from leaving their towns and villages. Those who can and are
> brave enough to do so face repeated humiliation and harassment from
Israeli
> soldiers at the notorious checkpoints. Only yesterday the staff and
> faculty at Al Quds university were removed AT GUNPOINT from the campus,
and
> the university closed, ostensibly on the grounds that the university was
> 'an institution of the Palestinian Authority' operating in
> (Israeli-annexed) East Jerusalem, over which the Palestinian Authority is
> deemed by the Sharon government to have no jurisdiction by virtue of
> Israel's annexation. Moreover, when the Israeli army began its
> occupation of the West Bank, it totally trashed several Palestinian
> ministries, including the ministry of education. Everything was
> destroyed in the ministry building, including all student records, and the
> soldiers even unrinated and defecated into filing cabinets and xerox
machines.
>
> The Chronicle report does not mention your condemnation of Israel for what
> it has been doing to Palestinian students and teachers in the West Bank,
> and maybe you did make such a condemnation but were not reported as doing
> so. However, if your letter did not condemn Israel for destroying the
> Palestinian higher education system, the principle of fairness behooves
> that you do. How can you condemn publicly the firing of two Israeli
> academics from an editorial board and, for instance, say nothing about the
> hundreds of Palestinian academics who are physically prevented from doing
> their jobs and who have in some cases been evicted at gunpoint from their
> offices?
>
> If you do not rectify this anomaly in the position you have taken publicly
> as MLA President, as an MLA member I will take steps to bring about a
> censure motion at the Delegate Assembly when the MLA next meets. It is
> not unreasonable for an MLA member to expect the organization's president
> to be as fair and impartial as possible when taking a public stand (in
that
> capacity) on a sensitive political issue.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kenneth Surin
> ::::::::::
> Kenneth Surin
> Professor
> Program in Literature
> Duke University
> Durham NC 27708 USA
>
> Tel: (919) 684-4364 (office)
> Fax: (919) 684-3598
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> web page: http://www.duke.edu/~ksurin/
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>
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