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In English usage, it implies you're considering X but haven't decided yet.<BR/><BR/>(2): The boycott is protected under the rights of speech (choosing not to talk to or quote Israelis), press (choosing not to publish their results or cite their results), and assembly (choosing not to associate with them). All of these rights are enumerated (in the same amendment, even).<BR/><BR/>(3): It is ironic that you express concern about unenumerated rights but have no problem suggesting the government use unenumerated *powers*. Nothing in the Constitution explicitly gives Congress the right to screen who may enter the country.Revenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374515200055384226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149698824409382662006-06-07T12:47:00.000-04:002006-06-07T12:47:00.000-04:00"The AAUP has issued a statement against the boyco...<I>"The AAUP has issued a statement against the boycott a year ago, and has taken a stance against academic boycotts in general. However, it has yet to speak out against this vote."</I><BR/><BR/>Yes they have<BR/><BR/>http://www.adl.org/Israel/Letter_aaup.asp<BR/><BR/>As far as AAUP not crying it from the mountaintop now (despite the ADL letter exchange which was pretty darned explict), they may be waiting for UCU to rule on it. The AUT (which slapped it down the last time) along with its "sister" union NATFHE (which pulled the lasted stunt) have just merged to make the UCU and the leadership sees this as a major liability to the new union. The current call for a boycott is also being condemned by many NATFHE/AUT/UCU members who oppose the boycott as it was pushed through by a rather undemocratic method and, like the AUT stunt, did not represent the rank-and-file membership. Only the most fanatic of the true believers are considering it to be binding. Everyone against the boycott is telling them to get stuffed.<BR/><BR/>In short, the people pushing the boycott, though they are getting "good press," are burning through their karma, the patience of their fellow union members, and their bridges at an astounding rate.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01133641184086114484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149689717161447292006-06-07T10:15:00.000-04:002006-06-07T10:15:00.000-04:00I oppose the Israeli boycott. Israel's human right...I oppose the Israeli boycott. Israel's human rights violations are nowhere close to severe enought o justify it. Punishing Israeli academics, many or whom have worked hard to minimize the destructive policies of the Israeli gov (settlements, etc.) is especially egregious. Academics from any country should be the last people boycotted, because the free exchange of information is so important to preventing human rights abuses.<BR/><BR/>Having been in academia for several years, however, I find the charge that there are large numbers of anti-semites laughable, particularly since their are many Jewish academics representing all of the various hues of political opinion.<BR/><BR/>Finally, one reason that western nations are boycotted is because boycotts might actually have some effect on them because they are in some sense accountable to their citizens who suffer from the boycotts. Castro or the Saudi royal family does not care and cannot be made to care by their subjects.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149656327878440472006-06-07T00:58:00.000-04:002006-06-07T00:58:00.000-04:00Revenant --I said I was tempted. Temptations are ...Revenant --<BR/><BR/>I said I was tempted. Temptations are impulses for resisting, not indulging; they go against your better judgment. That is why they are called <I>temptations</I>, not inspirations. <BR/><BR/>So, yes, I already said it was a horrible idea.<BR/><BR/>However, note a boycott is not speech, but an unenumerated right, and membership in a body is not speech, but another unenumerated right. The tendency to name certain unenumerated rights improperly as enumerated rights tends to assist in the denial and disparagment of other unenumerated rights not so easily associated. The result puts the house of liberty in greater peril, as solid timbers are shifted from portions of the roof that are already weakly supported to where the roof already has strong beams.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149646989639263002006-06-06T22:23:00.000-04:002006-06-06T22:23:00.000-04:00Just to clarify:The AAUP has issued a statement ag...Just to clarify:<BR/><BR/>The AAUP has issued a statement against the boycott a year ago, and has taken a stance against academic boycotts in general. However, it has yet to speak out against this vote.Cathy Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09688616617444359647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149644073089285522006-06-06T21:34:00.000-04:002006-06-06T21:34:00.000-04:00...thus furthering my thesis that any university p......thus furthering my thesis that any university professor possessing a "degree" in any fuzzy studies does not deserve to be regarded with any more respect that we would give a pimp. Oops, the pimp actually provides a service. Sorry, all you pimps out there. No sorry at all to the jokesters possessing wimpy, mushy, "degrees" in the non-sciences. Babble on...nobody cares except your fellow wimipy, mushy students...and journalists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149640578018434522006-06-06T20:36:00.000-04:002006-06-06T20:36:00.000-04:00As noted by commenter "gr" over on the Volokh blog...As noted by commenter "gr" over on the Volokh blog, the AAUP issued a rejection of the boycott over a year ago:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.aaup.org/newsroom/press/2005/AUT.htm" REL="nofollow">Link</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149633578685190292006-06-06T18:39:00.000-04:002006-06-06T18:39:00.000-04:00I'd be tempted to pass an anti-anti-semitism law d...<I>I'd be tempted to pass an anti-anti-semitism law denying non-U.S. citizens entry into the U.S</I><BR/><BR/>I think that would be a horrible idea, both because it would show contempt for freedom of speech and because it would be counterproductive to US interests.Revenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374515200055384226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149625081963218052006-06-06T16:18:00.000-04:002006-06-06T16:18:00.000-04:00I'd be tempted to pass an anti-anti-semitism law d...I'd be tempted to pass an anti-anti-semitism law denying non-U.S. citizens entry into the U.S. if they are members of "Nazi parties, neo-Nazi organizations, or any organization engaged in collective punishment targetted at Jews", with an explanatory clause in the law specifying that these Israel boycotts count as Jew-targetting collective punishments.<BR/><BR/>It's a bit of a blunt hammer, and would certainly provoke howls of outrage. But then, it would be intended to provoke outrage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149620316529912702006-06-06T14:58:00.000-04:002006-06-06T14:58:00.000-04:00It is times like this when I'm thankful that the a...It is times like this when I'm thankful that the academic establishment has little influence on public sentiment or government policy.Revenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374515200055384226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149613156960891152006-06-06T12:59:00.000-04:002006-06-06T12:59:00.000-04:00Cousin's comment is astute. Just as in that examp...Cousin's comment is astute. Just as in that example, the perceived human-rights abuses of Israel are insignificant, in severity and in number, to human-rights abuses elsewhere. <BR/><BR/>(They're also easily debatable, where others are not. We can argue, if you like, about whether long lines at Israeli checkpoints constitute human-rights abuses; but Iraqi mass graves, Sudanese machete-wielding mobs, and widespread starvation in North Korea don't leave much room for argument.)<BR/><BR/>If someone ignores a hundred large indisputable tragedies per day in one part of the world, but zeroes in on a handful of small debatable misfortunes per day in another, what does that say about a person's priorities?<BR/><BR/><BR/>In re the AAUP: Jews have long been the canaries in the coal mine for Western civilization, and Israel plays a similar role among the nations. If today we can boycott Israeli academics for the policies of their government, tomorrow we can boycott British academics -- or American academics -- who did not speak out strongly enough against the Iraq War. <BR/><BR/>This is no time for moral cowardice; this is not the time for standing on the sidelines. Academics can support the boycott of Israel or protest it, as they please; but they must not pretend that it won't affect them. It does, and it will.<BR/><BR/>respectfully,<BR/>Daniel in BrooklineDaniel in Brooklinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296850357629131645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149611090209403152006-06-06T12:24:00.000-04:002006-06-06T12:24:00.000-04:00We have the same problem in the Presbyterian Churc...We have the same problem in the Presbyterian Church USA where our leadership started a divestment process in 2004. <BR/><BR/>What you wrote, "Anti-Semitic or not, the movement to boycott Israel is hypocritical, sanctimonious, and quite simply wrong. It is a shocking example of selective outrage." also applies to the PCUSA.<BR/><BR/>There are groups in the PCUSA fighting against the leadership who is pushing the anti-Israel agenda.<BR/><BR/>Our website is <BR/>http://concernedpresbyterians.net/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149605712667176072006-06-06T10:55:00.000-04:002006-06-06T10:55:00.000-04:00Some Israel critics here have attacked the "hypocr...Some Israel critics here have attacked the "hypocricy" claim (i.e., that nobody is boycotting the Arab League for Sudan, Russia, etc.) by arguing that two wrongs don't make a right and these other nations sins don't excuse Israel's.<BR/><BR/>I realized why that's so offensive. If policemen only ticketed African-American speeders while allowing white drunk drivers to swerve down the highway, that's by far the bigger societal problem. It's offensive to say that taking immediate corrective action against the police is supporting speeding.Cousinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16853632643540164377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149601762188897892006-06-06T09:49:00.000-04:002006-06-06T09:49:00.000-04:00You make some excellant points. How utterly safe a...You make some excellant points. How utterly safe and mundane to pick on Israel. Oh the rot of the Left....goeshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05781857563232791703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149600309078130462006-06-06T09:25:00.000-04:002006-06-06T09:25:00.000-04:00Is there any significance to the fact that the AAU...Is there any significance to the fact that the AAUP's initials, when spoken, seem to sound like the proverbial Southern "Aye-Yup"?<BR/><BR/>The comparison, unfair to true Southerners as a quite undeserved slap, can give quiet substantiation to the apparent single-minded determination by these elitist educators to pursue the liberal/socialist agenda while successfully ignoring facts.<BR/><BR/>DukeDuke of DeLandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06838022714970116981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11306845.post-1149599614873089302006-06-06T09:13:00.000-04:002006-06-06T09:13:00.000-04:00i will confidently bet the aaup will not formally ...i will confidently bet the aaup will not formally come out against an academic boycott of israel...why? not because the group is anti-semitic, anti-israel or cowardly but simply because the group doesn't care enough to institutionally confront the issue...<BR/><BR/>...as we have seen throughout campuses nationwide, the principle of 'academic freedom' has devolved into self-indulgent 'self interest' rather than an interest and concern of academe in general...<BR/>this principle of self-interest uber alles is what governs faculty, administrators and regents alike...and since it is difficult to imagine how an israel boycott by british academics will undermine american academic self interest (as they perceive it), it is thus equally difficult to imagine why the aaup will bother to intervene....aaup's attitude will be 'wait & see'...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com