Has anyone ever heard of a professor being denied a job in a pro-Israeli US academic department?
Do you really believe that people should withhold funds because one person in a major university opposes the policy of a government? David B. Shemano wrote:
Of course they should. I can say that because I believe in the state/private distinction and support the 1st Amendment as a restriction on state action but not private action. I support the right of a Lefty dominated university department to decide not to hire a pro-Israel professor, and I support the right of pro-Israel supporters to make the decision public and try and convince alumni to withhold money from the university. Of course, the fact that I support somebody's right to say something doesn't mean I support them saying it. I did want to note the irony (if that's the right word) of Doug Henwood complaining when anti-Israel critics are accused of being Nazis, and Jim Devine contemporaneously calling Israel "one of the worst kinds of ethnic nationalist regimes currently on earth," which I think a reasonable reader would interpret as a Nazi analogy. So apparently it is unfair rhetoric for somebody to call your side Nazis, but okay rhetoric to call the other side Nazis, and if anybody calls you a Nazi for calling them a Nazi, that proves they are a Nazi. David Shemano
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com
