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Comment on After the storm by Mike

Mike — Sun, 19 May 2013 20:25:22 +0000

Uncanny! That’s also exactly how much it would cost me to download your article and read it!!one¡eleventyunit.

Not to worry, I’ve not even finished the free download of the first installment of your SF trilobite yet. By the time I get through that, someone will have hacked the pdf paywall.

Comment on After the storm by Steve Caplan

Steve Caplan — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:26:49 +0000

Please see my POST SCRIPT and TWEET IMAGE now added to the body of this blog above. Proof of anti-semitism in the BDS movements, by its leaders.

Comment on After the storm by cromercrox

cromercrox — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:49:55 +0000

Anyway, anti-semitism is no more. It has ceased to be. And that’s official! http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/its-official-thanks-to-stephen-hawkings-israel-boycott-antisemitism-is-no-more-8621112.html

Comment on After the storm by cromercrox

cromercrox — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:56:11 +0000

I did my Ph.D. on that very question
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.3390080107/abstract
and if I had a pound for every time I heard that hoary old joke I’d have £873.

Comment on After the storm by Mike

Mike — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:12:20 +0000

What’s the difference between a ~~buffalo~~ bull and a bison?
You can’t wash your hands in a bull.

Comment on After the storm by cromercrox

cromercrox — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:54:56 +0000

I saw about 19 mins of this before I lost the will to live. Omar Barghouti’s equation of Israeli policy with apartheid is just plain stupid. The rabbi was over the top. The lady academic talked some sense. So did you.

Comment on After the storm by Steve Caplan

Steve Caplan — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:04:09 +0000

I thought the storm might be over, but was asked today to participate on the Huffington Post’s “HuffLive” segment dedicated to the boycott of Israel. here is the link:

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/hawking-israel-boycott/519461712b8c2a257c0002af

Comment on After the storm by cromercrox

cromercrox — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:37 +0000

Ola, you really don’t know what you are talking about. Judaism is a religion, but it is also closely tied to an ethnicity. That’s why I tend to refer to it as a ‘tribe’. And when I have had grandparents die in the Holocaust, and when I have had fellow students at Cambridge University say that this fact was a ‘jolly good thing’, and when I have celebrated the Bat Mitzvah of my second daughter only last weekend, and yet I still have to fight of ignorant people like you who imagine they know what they are talking about – well, that says a great deal about the battle that we Jews have to fight every day so as not to have to make excuses for living.

Comment on After the storm by Ola

Ola — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:38:08 +0000

Please, STOP calling it racism!
Judaism is not a race. It is a religion.
People can opt in or out of Judaism, but cannot do so for race.

This is by no means intended to diminish the importance of the anti-semitism you speak of. Religious prejudice is just as nasty as racism, but it is a tremendous disservice to those who suffer bona fide racism, to use the term loosely to describe something else.

Comment on After the storm by cromercrox

cromercrox — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:48:26 +0000

They annoy me, too, but hypocrisy and injustice won’t go away if you ignore them.