Independent Media Center, Israel http://indymedia.org.il Yes to Absolut Boycott ImmidietlyMonday 24 Feb 2003 author: AVI

You write: "Livnat would like to strip power from the faculty senates and transfer it to boards of trustees in which professors are barred from membership. An academic boycott will only strengthen Livnat, and in this way assist the destruction of academic freedom in Israel." Let Livnat do that exactly. You are entirely blinded by your ethnicity and privilage: there is no academic freedom in Israel and there never has been been one. Israeli univesities and senates are fortresses of white European colonialism -- as 95% of the Israeli faculty are white Ashkenazim (either Zionist, non-Zionist, post-Zionist or anti-Zionist). The colonial structure of Israel is maintained by Ashkenazim who benefit from Zionist colonialism and exclude the majority of indigeneous inhabitants, i.e. Palestinians and Mizrahim. Memorize: you and the Haifa professor are both equal beneficiaries of the Israeli system. Unlike both of you, the Mizrahi/Palestinian absolute majority in Israel HAVE NO VOICEN AT ALL WHETHER inside and outside the academia. THIS IS WHY ISRAELI UNIVERSITIES MUST BE BOYCOTTED until they allow entry for the natives.

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