7,
January 2014
Dear Editor, Israel
– The Peace Process
The Middle East process is doomed to failure.
The current Israeli policy of land expropriation and marginalizing the Palestinians both inside and
outside the Israeli borders is increasing its isolation. Building hundreds of
Israeli settlements and rewarding Jewish settlers from around the world to live
and establish “beach heads”, largely from government largesse, is intensifying
hostilities and losing international support.
Releasing a few “terrorists” in return for building more settlements is
a failed policy. Israel can easily capture more Palestinians on triumphed up
charges with complete impunity. In a major show of academic activism, the association of
American professors (AMP) with almost 5,000 members voted to endorse an
academic boycott of Israeli colleges and universities, making it the largest
academic group in the United States to back a growing movement to isolate
Israel and exert pressure for it to embrace policies of inclusiveness and respect
for human rights. The ASA sited that “Israeli institutions of
higher education are a party to state policies that violate human rights."
The association’s boycott vote follows similar actions
taken by the leadership council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies
Association and the Association for Asian American Studies.
The Presbyterian Church supports BDS (Boycott, Divestment
and Sanctions) against Israel. The World United Methodist Church resolution
went much further by advocating a complete withdrawal of military and economic
aid. What is disturbing is the growing practice of local letter writers to
stifle dissent by accusing dissenting opinion writers as being anti-Semites.
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