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| Harvard insists Israeli shares sale not driven by boycott |
| 2010-08-17 |
| One of divestment's leading opponents at Harvard, Professor Alan Dershowitz, said he had checked with those involved in the decision to sell the shares and was satifisfied it was purely technical. "There will be some irresponsible anti-Israel extremists who will try to portray this economic decision as an attack against Israel," Dershowitz said. "Shame on them. They will continue to lose their credibility among all reasonable and objective people if they try to take political advantage of this purely technical decision." Well, I guess I feel better about this. But the "lose credibility" part assumes the Legacy Media will pick up on those who try to take advantage of it. Professor Dershowitz incorrectly assumes that the Joo-haters worry about their credibility, or that they even define the word the same as he and I ... He added: "The end result may well be that Harvard will have greater rather than lesser holdings of Israeli stocks. No one should misinterpret this purely economic decision as support for any form of divestment against Israel. Indeed, Harvard has publicly committed itself not to divest from Israel and not to participate in any campaign of boycotting the Jewish nation." The idea of boycotts and divestment against Israel was inspired by a similar strategy that some credit with bringing an end to apartheid in South Africa. US churches, students, academics, and others took a lead in that campaign. And we all know how well that has been working. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #2 In The meantime Arabs can kill over a million Blacks in Sudan, Turks can use WMDs on Kurds and you will never hear of Harvard boycotting them. |
| Posted by: JFM 2010-08-17 11:24 |
| #1 Nod, nod. Wink, wink. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-08-17 03:49 |