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The need to boycott Israel
By Bradley Burston

Clearly, there is a need to boycott Israel.

And, just as clearly, the need is not what the boycotters think it is.

Take the latest case. The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE), Britains's largest union of university and college lecturers, is expected to vote later this month on a new boycott proposal.
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The proposal would recommend that NATFHE's 67,000 members take it upon themselves to boycott all Israeli lecturers and academic institutions which do not publicly declare opposition to Israeli "apartheid policies" in the territories.

The boycott goes beyond an April, 2005 boycott proposal by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT), which targeted just two Israeli institutions, Bar-Ilan and Haifa Universities.

Mindful of the fact that Haifa University threatened to bring suit against AUT, which quashed its the earlier boycott decision, the NAFTHE proposal sleazes past taking responsibility as a union, throwing the onus onto its individual members.

Specifics aside, the new boycott proposal tells us more than we want to know about the people who feel the need to propose it.

More than anything, it tells us that for them, it doesn't really matter what Israel is, or does. Knowing Israelis and Palestinians for the hard-bitten, pride-driven cases that they are, they know that neither side will knuckle under to a boycott, certainly not a boycott staged by pencil neck academics on some intellectual island within a distant actual island.

But the Lawrence of Arabia Complex being what it is, our British friends have a need to show us how to do things, save us from ourselves, wring a new order in the Middle East - in short, they have a need boycott us, and nothing will keep them from addressing it.

The conclusion, in any event, is self-evident:

Israel must be punished.

Since the last stab at a British academic boycott fizzled last year, Israel pulled thousands of settlers - all of its Gaza settlers - out of the Gaza Strip, and then tens of thousands of Gaza-based soldiers - all of its Gaza-based soldiers - out of there as well.

Israel left the Gaza Strip. Israel must be punished.

There's now a democratically elected Palestinian government whose ruling party's platform endorses the extermination of the Jewish state and continued terrorism against Israeli civilians.

Israel must be punished.

Israel has elected a government whose central goal is an unprecedented withdrawal from the West Bank, and the dismantling of settlements now housing tens of thousands of settlers.

Israel must be punished.

The Palestinians are still shelling the Negev with Qassams, up to eight a day. They're still blowing up innocent people at felafel stands in Tel Aviv.

Israel must be punished.

I am generally the first to protest when sincere criticism of Israel is dismissed as anti-Semitism.

Especially because this criticism is often an expression of love for Israel, honest concern for the nation's well-being and future.

And even if it derives from antipathy to Israel, there's still a huge difference between frank criticism of the Jewish state on the one hand, and anti-Semitism on the other.

But what do you call an burning need, an unquenchable itch, a profound, irrational passion to boycott a nation's citizens, beginning with those most likely to agree with you?

There is that same McCarthyite gleam in the eyes, the same subtle sadism in the self-righteousness.

There's one thing that you can know for sure in this boycott obsession: It has nothing to do with obtaining results.

The one positive thing the boycott does, is to make the boycotters feel better about themselves. It is, in fact, group psychotherapy for those who boycott. It is efficacious, inexpensive, fast-acting, assuring them of huge doses of the attention and the glowing fix of self-righteousness they apparently crave.

As the adage has it, just because you're paranoid ...

And just because eminently dismissible jingoist pro-Israelists call you an anti-Semite - well, you might just be one anyway.
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  1.   Ingrained hatred 10:22  |  Margie 09/05/06
  2.   Thanks Bradley for saying what has to be said LOUD and CLEAR 10:28  |  Judith 09/05/06
  3.   Boycott 10:32  |  Kenneth L. Wolf 09/05/06
  4.   everytime I read your column, I cant decide who is more stupid, 10:33  |  Sami 09/05/06
  5.   Mealy-mouthed hypocrites 10:41  |  SpottedClick 09/05/06
  6.   Burston & Rosner 10:46  |  Jeff Halper 09/05/06
  7.   IT CALLED PRAGMATISM 10:59  |  indrajaya 09/05/06
  8.   SPOTTED CLICK.Re Mealy mouth.What do YOU call selective outrage. 11:04  |  PETER SM 09/05/06
  9.   SpottedClick #5. 11:05  |  Ezreal 09/05/06
  10.   SAMI .Read the wisdom and democratic forums of your brothers 11:10  |  PETER SM 09/05/06
  11.   the truth hurts, dont it? 11:10  |  Dror 09/05/06
  12.   Looking for cvandidates to be boycotted? 11:11  |  Tom Smitsloo 09/05/06
  13.   Bradley, It isn`t just a case of punishing Israel.... 11:12  |  Dutch 09/05/06
  14.   To indrajaya- no pragmatism, just hippocricy. 11:12  |  Richard 09/05/06
  15.   Listen to Jeff Halper! He founded pre-67 pal universities 11:15  |  Absolute Sweden 09/05/06
  16.   Yawn. This type of self pity is boring 11:18  |  Stephen Murray 09/05/06
  17.   Indrajaya: a polite comment 11:30  |  Raykie 09/05/06
  18.   Israel`s getting stronger. 11:33  |  Sandra 09/05/06
  19.   To Jeff Halper 11:45  |  Dov 09/05/06
  20.   some facts about Jeff Halper 11:48  |  Gaby 09/05/06
  21.   I like the message, but not the tone 11:52  |  Gaby 09/05/06
  22.   They sure should boycot Jeff Halper 11:55  |  Gaby 09/05/06
  23.   Boycott 11:57  |  GrossedOut 09/05/06
  24.   # 14, RICHARD, CAN"T BE IGNORED.. 11:58  |  Indrajaya 09/05/06
  25.   Lessons 11:59  |  Pol Hofman 09/05/06
  26.   NO HASBARA IN EUROPE PART 1 12:05  |  Nicole 09/05/06
  27.   Indrajaya - the struggle for Dar al Islam 12:06  |  Richard 09/05/06
  28.   Gahy, I Know Jaff Halper well 12:08  |  Sam 09/05/06
  29.   # 17, RAYKIE, AN IMPOLITE COMMENT 12:08  |  indrajaya 09/05/06
  30.   # 17, RAYKIE, AN IMPOLITE COMMENT 12:08  |  indrajaya 09/05/06
  31.   the pressing need to boycott israel 12:10  |  raymond deane 09/05/06
  32.   Dutch-How Sad 12:10  |  Harry D 09/05/06
  33.   NO HASBARA IN EUROPE PART 2 12:11  |  Nicole 09/05/06
  34.   It`s about time 12:14  |  Roger Brown 09/05/06
  35.   the man from jakarta 12:26  |  Raykie 09/05/06
  36.   Boycott Israel 12:32  |  Roger Brown 09/05/06
  37.   more on Jeff Halper from ngo-monitor 12:49  |  Gaby 09/05/06
  38.   By All Means 12:54  |  Harry D 09/05/06
  39.   Raykie N.o 35 "expansionist" 13:00  |  Elisabeth 09/05/06
  40.   In the minds of British Academia... 13:01  |  Chana 09/05/06
  41.   On Bombing Gaza 13:04  |  Ronnie Wolman 09/05/06
  42.   To Roger Brown (Re: Boycott Israel) 13:06  |  EC 09/05/06
  43.   Academics - wow - tremble 13:06  |  Aussie Michael 09/05/06
  44.   # 35, RAYKIE, THE MAN FROM TEL AVIV 13:07  |  indrajaya 09/05/06
  45.   let them boycott 13:14  |  Raphael Yosef 09/05/06
  46.   The Jew always was the scapegoat and it does not change 13:15  |  Edith 09/05/06
  47.   Harry, Are you asking me to feel sorry..?.. 13:29  |  Dutch 09/05/06
  48.   To Roger Brown and Sam knowing Jeff Halper in the Biblical sense 13:30  |  Absolute Sweden 09/05/06
  49.   # 39, ELIZABETH, WELL SAID 13:47  |  Indrajaya 09/05/06
  50.   Maybe the need to boycott Burston 13:48  |  Marlene 09/05/06
  51.   The truth hurts, doesn`t it? 13:53  |  Raykie 09/05/06
  52.   @ Roger Brown 13:58  |  Aby 09/05/06
  53.   Typcial 13:59  |  Gee 09/05/06
  54.   The Need to Boycottt Israel 13:59  |  Ephraim Ben-Zeev 09/05/06
  55.   #29 Indrajaya 14:01  |  Ilan 09/05/06
  56.   Islam - translation: the complete submission to Alla 14:04  |  Richard 09/05/06
  57.   Elisabeth - Israel has been shrinking 14:06  |  Richard 09/05/06
  58.   ONLY IN YOUR DREAM 14:09  |  Indrajaya 09/05/06
  59.   # 50 Marlene 14:09  |  Alan 09/05/06
  60.   Face the truth 14:14  |  Raykie 09/05/06
  61.   Dumb Marlene 14:23  |  Curious 09/05/06
  62.   Bradley`s selective discourse again.... 14:24  |  b khano 09/05/06
  63.   GAZA IS NOTHING 14:25  |  Indrajaya 09/05/06
  64.   Give me a break here, Israel never been punished 14:38  |  Gaza Boy 09/05/06
  65.   The imaginative and interesting work of Burston and Rosner 14:43  |  Shalom Freedman 09/05/06
  66.   Boycotts 14:52  |  Fritz 09/05/06
  67.   BRITANS DISGRACE 14:58  |  Dr David I Gross 09/05/06
  68.   Roger Brown on stormfront 14:58  |  Gaby 09/05/06
  69.   Gaza Boy - why does Israel need to be punished? 14:58  |  Richard 09/05/06
  70.   "Anti-semitism", a badge of HONOR! 14:59  |  Cavler Crociatus 09/05/06
  71.   I think Israelis will never learn; boycot is justified until... 15:06  |  Louisd 09/05/06
  72.   #46 toEdith 15:14  |  Dav 09/05/06
  73.   Only in Israel 15:19  |  H50 09/05/06
  74.   #35 Raykie 15:32  |  Dav 09/05/06
  75.   S. Murray #16 a Mirror? 15:42  |  semsem 09/05/06
  76.   # 63 to islamic humanist indrajaya 15:46  |  Bob 09/05/06
  77.   Easy answer to Sami`s question 15:46  |  Jacob Blues 09/05/06
  78.   WAY TO GO BRITAIN!!! 15:51  |  PRINCE OF PERSIA 09/05/06
  79.   Elizabeth #39-about Richard`s half truth 15:55  |  Kameel 09/05/06
  80.   All One needs to do is look at the ap picture 16:04  |  Ibrahim 09/05/06
  81.   Ronnie off the Wall Man #41 16:19  |  Gabe1 09/05/06
  82.   Louisd #69 16:19  |  Gee 09/05/06
  83.   Pariah People, Pariah Nations and Buggering British 16:20  |  B 09/05/06
  84.   Kameel ignores the original statement 16:29  |  Richard 09/05/06
  85.   #6 Jeff Halper, Paging the Activists 16:31  |  Dutch 09/05/06
  86.   Tom Smitsloo 16:32  |  Larry 09/05/06
  87.   Prince of Persia 16:35  |  Larry 09/05/06
  88.   How would the boycott work? 16:36  |  Gerald Deutsch 09/05/06
  89.   FREE WORLD WOULD BOYCOTT RACIST ISRAEL 16:40  |  Samir 09/05/06
  90.   racism in academia 16:47  |  Joy Springreen 09/05/06
  91.   Always the Martyr 16:57  |  A goy to You 09/05/06
  92.   Re: Jacob Blues 17:00  |  Sami 09/05/06
  93.   Samir #84 17:05  |  Gee 09/05/06
  94.   # 84 Samir 17:07  |  Shelly 09/05/06
  95.   Halper, a new ignorant poster 17:16  |  FOX 09/05/06
  96.   Dutch-Response 17:19  |  Harry D 09/05/06
  97.   It`s actually a declaration of war against Israel 17:23  |  bruce 09/05/06
  98.   Gabe1 17:32  |  KUTW 09/05/06
  99.   Israel 17:32  |  miki less 09/05/06
  100.   Discrimination premised on political correctness 17:33  |  bruce 09/05/06
  101.   They are dying in the Gazian Hospitals 17:48  |  Jeremy Stein 09/05/06
  102.   Why would that be, Ibrahim? 17:57  |  Jacob Blues 09/05/06
  103.   Ibrahim-Article 24 of the PLO charter 18:07  |  peter 09/05/06
  104.   Bradley 18:09  |  Stella 09/05/06
  105.   Bruce, how convenient of you to omit 18:11  |  Ibrahim 09/05/06
  106.   "A goy to you"... 18:12  |  Chana 09/05/06
  107.   RE fox 18:14  |  Sami 09/05/06
  108.   #41 the role of a government is to serve its citizens ... DUH 18:18  |  pace306 09/05/06
  109.   Bruce :"a declaration of war against Israel" 18:22  |  Roger Brown 09/05/06
  110.   Gabe1 you`re being a boor 18:25  |  peter 09/05/06
  111.   Ibrahim #105 18:30  |  Gee 09/05/06
  112.   Britain, look what is happening to you... 18:30  |  Sandra 09/05/06
  113.   11:03 Four dialysis patients die in Gaza hospital 18:32  |  Ken Bradwick 09/05/06
  114.   Israel should be punished for killing journalists & peace activis 18:33  |  Levy Shamir 09/05/06
  115.   89. Samir: free world with the taliban (???) 18:45  |  KUTW 09/05/06
  116.   It`s about de-legitimisation/de-humanising pro Israelis Roger 18:48  |  bruce 09/05/06
  117.   #114 Punnished for killing terrorists and PIECE activists? 18:49  |  pace306 09/05/06
  118.   Pace,you have lost the thread of Jewish Conscience 18:49  |  Ronnie Wolman 09/05/06
  119.   levy shamir #114 has a serious problem 18:51  |  uzi silber 09/05/06
  120.   Are the Brits out of Ireland yet ? 18:56  |  pace306 09/05/06
  121.   Ibrahim, I see Israel as singled out by usual suspects 18:58  |  bruce 09/05/06
  122.   #53.Gee: Which non-Zionism Burston is guilty? 19:03  |  zmogus 09/05/06
  123.   #95 Fox, Free Palestine! 19:03  |  Observer 09/05/06
  124.   Bravo Pace Bravo 19:11  |  Larry 09/05/06
  125.   118 nice paragraph but it had no point.... 19:11  |  pace306 09/05/06
  126.   Bravo Pace Bravo Part 2 19:15  |  Larry 09/05/06
  127.   Bruce 19:18  |  Roger Brown 09/05/06
  128.   #96 Harry D , My response 19:23  |  Dutch 09/05/06
  129.   Boycott this "Navy keeps smuggled TNT out of Gaza" 19:24  |  pace306 09/05/06
  130.   #113. Dialysis 19:25  |  ariel 09/05/06
  131.   reply to Larry; 19:31  |  Raykie 09/05/06
  132.   Death in Gaza 19:33  |  ariel 09/05/06
  133.   #63 Idrajaya 19:36  |  Morgan 09/05/06
  134.   Gaby 19:36  |  Jay 09/05/06
  135.   Why does NATFHE do it? 19:37  |  KUTW 09/05/06
  136.   The reason is: 19:38  |  Sam 09/05/06
  137.   Boycott Israel 19:44  |  Chris Linthwaite 09/05/06
  138.   Ken 19:53  |  Roger Brown 09/05/06
  139.   126 territories captured from Jordan in 1967 to the Palestinians 19:56  |  pace306 09/05/06
  140.   #48, Absolute Sweden. Finaly the recognition of Palestinians? 19:59  |  zmogus 09/05/06
  141.   Boycotts work 20:08  |  tadchase 09/05/06
  142.   Bradley # 104 20:08  |  Howard 09/05/06
  143.   Pace:The Missiles FROM Gaza 20:09  |  Ronnie Wolman 09/05/06
  144.   Boycott is an urgent necessity 20:10  |  Francois 09/05/06
  145.   114 Levy Shamir:? peace activis? of a hamas branch 20:15  |  KUTW 09/05/06
  146.   I`m boycotting Europe. 20:18  |  Sandra 09/05/06
  147.   Francois 20:25  |  Larry 09/05/06
  148.   Chris Linthwaite and occupied territories 20:27  |  peter 09/05/06
  149.   Too Easy on the Boycotters 20:31  |  tod zuckerman 09/05/06
  150.   dead issue anyways 20:37  |  Paul Freedman 09/05/06
  151.   Levy Shamir: pals kill journalists 20:39  |  KUTW 09/05/06
  152.   137I`ll buy Israeli and Danish products 20:43  |  KUTW 09/05/06
  153.   Bruce, many can empathise 20:43  |  Ibrahim 09/05/06
  154.   Missles from Gaza - is that the kind of peace YOU prefer ? 20:47  |  pace306 09/05/06
  155.   Peter 20:48  |  Chris Linthwaite 09/05/06
  156.   Peter of Montreal 20:49  |  Gabe1 09/05/06
  157.   Usual, hopeful request 20:49  |  H50 09/05/06
  158.   The Need to Boycott 20:59  |  Rabbi Allen S. Kapla 09/05/06
  159.   Sandra 21:00  |  Rebecca 09/05/06
  160.   I would boycott the UK, but really cannot figure out how 21:10  |  Terry 09/05/06
  161.   @Fritz 21:11  |  Aby 09/05/06
  162.   139.pace306territories captured from Jordan in 1967 to the Pale 21:16  |  KUTW 09/05/06
  163.   Rebecca, Israel is far more interesting than Europe. 21:17  |  Sandra 09/05/06
  164.   Chris Linthwaite and PLO2 21:18  |  peter 09/05/06
  165.   Sami, Simply and Certainly who ask`s this question is most 21:20  |  Aby 09/05/06
  166.   Marlene, the one of the Royal "we" 21:23  |  Terry 09/05/06
  167.   Disagree here 21:26  |  Colin Wright 09/05/06
  168.   # 39 21:32  |  ChanahS 09/05/06
  169.   Colin Wright, siding with terrorists isn`t a just solution. 21:33  |  Chana 09/05/06
  170.   H50 #157 21:33  |  Gee 09/05/06
  171.   tadchase # 141 Sometimes Boycotts Work and Sometimes They Don`t 21:46  |  Jeff Northridge 09/05/06
  172.   Depends on your definition of `Just`, Colin 21:47  |  Jacob Blues 09/05/06
  173.   157 H50s warped fantasy 21:47  |  pace306 09/05/06
  174.   Peter 21:49  |  Chris Linthwaite 09/05/06
  175.   Ibrahim - the future course 21:55  |  bruce 09/05/06
  176.   Peter 22:00  |  Chris Linthwaite 09/05/06
  177.   Chris Linthwaite 22:11  |  peter 09/05/06
  178.   Bruce, future course... 22:14  |  Sandra 09/05/06
  179.   The World disenchantment with Israel 22:14  |  BazMann 09/05/06
  180.   Boycot: a non-violent way to demand an end to the occupation! 22:32  |  Ben Alofs 09/05/06
  181.   KEN BRADWICK.Why are you not delivering a truck load of equipment 22:47  |  PETER SM 09/05/06
  182.   #176 Chris 22:53  |  JonO 09/05/06
  183.   85.Dutch. pals targeting children. Horrifying 23:07  |  KUTW 09/05/06
  184.   60% of Americans identify with Israel... 23:24  |  Chana 09/05/06
  185.   Pace: There no End 23:55  |  Ronnie Wolman 09/05/06
  186.   Ben Alofs, you aren`t seeing reality. 23:56  |  Sandra 09/05/06
  187.   Saudi Arabia on the UN human rights council 23:58  |  Gaby 09/05/06
  188.   Israelis R Getting Off Easy 00:03  |  RC 10/05/06
  189.   Carpet Bombing Gaza and Gabe1 00:04  |  Ronnie Wolman 10/05/06
  190.   Saudi Arabia on the UN human rights council? 00:05  |  Mark Lincoln 10/05/06
  191.   "So much owed by so many to so few" 00:08  |  Abu Zayd 10/05/06
  192.   Chris Linthwaite- more on PLO charter 00:10  |  peter 10/05/06
  193.   It`s about time to boycott Israel 00:13  |  Shahar Hlinovsky 10/05/06
  194.   ISRAEL IS NOT THE VICTIM-THE PALESTINIANS ARE 00:17  |  Burst On ? 10/05/06
  195.   re: #44 expansionist islam 00:23  |  Rikk 10/05/06
  196.   The world must boycott Israel 00:25  |  wibism 10/05/06
  197.   Ronnie off the Wall Man to Pace #182 00:49  |  Gabe1 10/05/06
  198.   ha who needs them 00:53  |  Deutsch 10/05/06
  199.   A goy to you 00:59  |  Stephen Duke 10/05/06
  200.   Dutch is a Haaretz editor? 01:06  |  bbl 10/05/06
  201.   Odd responses 01:10  |  H50 10/05/06
  202.   Dear Editor of Haaretz 01:10  |  Daniel Reisel 10/05/06
  203.   About Dutch`s comments #13 -- the long post 01:13  |  bbl 10/05/06
  204.   Steven Murray -- I thought you were more knowledgable 01:23  |  bbl 10/05/06
  205.   Sandra 01:26  |  Rebecca 10/05/06
  206.   To Steven Murray -- moreover... 01:28  |  bbl 10/05/06
  207.   Indrajaya 01:39  |  bbl 10/05/06
  208.   Colin Wright 01:49  |  TT 10/05/06
  209.   Indraya and Elizbeth -- check your history 01:54  |  bbl 10/05/06
  210.   Easy to defeat, pls circulate part 3 02:08  |  rich 10/05/06
  211.   The Church, The Academics, The... 02:35  |  JOHANES Franzen 10/05/06
  212.   153 Ibrahim 02:45  |  howard 10/05/06
  213.   Missing the point when at all possible 03:17  |  Saad Khatib 10/05/06
  214.   # 183 Sandra, about reality 03:20  |  Ben Alofs 10/05/06
  215.   To Roger Brown, Chris Linthwaite, other Brits 03:24  |  Gilad 10/05/06
  216.   dutch 03:25  |  Barry 10/05/06
  217.   Stephen Murphy 03:28  |  Barr 10/05/06
  218.   PLO Charter - to Chris 03:32  |  Gilad 10/05/06
  219.   Wanna Boycott Israel? 03:40  |  Efox 10/05/06
  220.   Straighten me out Terry, but not with Zionist history lessons 166 03:42  |  Marlene 10/05/06
  221.   Gabe 1,tell me when do we start the program? 03:43  |  Ronnie Wolman 10/05/06
  222.   A legitmate boycotting 04:00  |  Magnus 10/05/06
  223.   Gabe 1 When do you suggest we start? 04:12  |  Ronnie Wolman 10/05/06
  224.   WEAK LOGIC 04:49  |  Bijan 10/05/06
  225.   To Bijan 05:28  |  Gilad 10/05/06
  226.   Hey Marlene 05:44  |  Gilad 10/05/06
  227.   To Durch 06:02  |  R 10/05/06
  228.   Terry`s on solid ground Marlene, you`re sinking 06:09  |  peter 10/05/06
  229.   punishment 06:17  |  masters 10/05/06
  230.   double dutch 06:26  |  Masters 10/05/06
  231.   #211, Marlene, no one could straighten you out 06:49  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 10/05/06
  232.   Bradley Burston you must realize 07:12  |  Omar 10/05/06
  233.   Let you boycott. Anyway you`ll loose 07:16  |  Anna 10/05/06
  234.   BRUCE, you are completely right in all your posts 1 07:22  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 10/05/06
  235.   BRUCE, 2; McCarthyism and totalitarianism 07:41  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 10/05/06
  236.   Oh spotted.... TMF is watching 07:41  |  YourOldPal 10/05/06
  237.   4 Sami -- Now that`s what I would call constructive criticism. 07:42  |  Goober 10/05/06
  238.   Existance 101 for Marlene 07:47  |  Jacob Blues 10/05/06
  239.   Rebecca 07:50  |  Sandra 10/05/06
  240.   b oycot Israel and tell it to get rid of itself. 07:56  |  rosetta stone 10/05/06
  241.   198. H50: Odd responses 07:56  |  KUTW 10/05/06
  242.   #47 Dutch - TERRORIST COMMITTED TO OUR DESTRUCTION DESERVE NOTHIN 08:01  |  Umm El Kul Naqba 10/05/06
  243.   Ben Alofs, more on reality... 08:04  |  Sandra 10/05/06
  244.   The Hamas Charter 08:22  |  Barbara 10/05/06
  245.   Well, From A Spiritual Viewpoint This Is The Way It Will Go Down! 08:23  |  Sam The Sham 10/05/06
  246.   Boycott 08:34  |  Gizelle 10/05/06
  247.   #217 Marlene - If we don`t exist, you don`t have a problem 08:35  |  Umm El Kul Naqba 10/05/06
  248.   Marlene, read the entire resolution 142 08:46  |  Terry 10/05/06
  249.   THE BRITISH (schoolteachers) COMING! 09:09  |  MarkC 10/05/06
  250.   Saad Khatib - Do you still beat your wife? 09:21  |  Ana Muta Asef 10/05/06
  251.   shyte 09:25  |  hadyn 10/05/06
  252.   FREE PALESTINE 09:29  |  Julia 10/05/06
  253.   Halper is a patriot 09:50  |  wessels 10/05/06
  254.   Julia, there are 21 ARAB NATIONS. 10:07  |  Sandra 10/05/06
  255.   #36 Roger Brown 10:21  |  Stan 10/05/06
  256.   Its Amazing 10:32  |  Stan 10/05/06
  257.   Julia 10:42  |  Connie 10/05/06
  258.   252. Julia: OUT THE TERRORISTS 11:03  |  KUTW 10/05/06
  259.   Until the End. 11:07  |  NB 10/05/06
  260.   #189 Ronnie Wolman 11:18  |  Stan 10/05/06
  261.   Do ALL Of What You`re Supposed To Do--THEN Complain! 11:28  |  Proud Pal Defender 10/05/06
  262.   Go figure 11:35  |  Dangor 10/05/06
  263.   Continuation of my previous post #260 11:49  |  Stan 10/05/06
  264.   Own flesh 12:17  |  Wim 10/05/06
  265.   When you are wrong - you are just plain wrong 14:23  |  Conor 10/05/06
  266.   Thank you Ha`aaretz 14:24  |  rich 10/05/06
  267.   To #5 15:01  |  Joe 10/05/06
  268.   Britain laughs at boycotters 15:07  |  jonathan 10/05/06
  269.   Roger Brown 15:48  |  Sol 10/05/06
  270.   Let`s boycott British 15:52  |  Eytan 10/05/06
  271.   re: Always the Martyr 16:19  |  Sol 10/05/06
  272.   Julia in Sydney 16:19  |  rich 10/05/06
  273.   Julia in Sydney 2 16:21  |  rich 10/05/06
  274.   UK=Israel= Evil 16:30  |  English 10/05/06
  275.   Boycott UK. Free Northern Ireland!! 16:55  |  Shmuel Ben-Y 10/05/06
  276.   Hypocrisy 19:06  |  Gabe 10/05/06
  277.   Genocides are not so important 21:33  |  Alain 10/05/06
  278.   Proof read and spellcheck 21:59  |  Rex 10/05/06
  279.   Go ahead and boycott 22:12  |  Mordechai 10/05/06
  280.   Hypocrisy Continued 02:37  |  Gabe 11/05/06
  281.   #203 bbi, My Response 03:06  |  Dutch 11/05/06
  282.   Julie , I welcome your interest and concern .......... 03:46  |  Dutch 11/05/06
  283.   Elisabeth 03:48  |  Howard 11/05/06
  284.   To Colin 06:00  |  Bob 11/05/06
  285.   RE : Let`s boycott British 06:20  |  Dav 11/05/06
  286.   jeff halper 06:22  |  vladimir 11/05/06
  287.   #19, dov 06:24  |  vladimir 11/05/06
  288.   Ben Alofs 06:39  |  Danite 11/05/06
  289.   #79, kameel 06:46  |  vladimir 11/05/06
  290.   a goy, $91 06:52  |  vladimir 11/05/06
  291.   Gaby please stop misleading information on Saudi Arabia 08:36  |  sam 11/05/06
  292.   #288 Danite , your history is ridiculous 14:23  |  Dutch 11/05/06
  293.   Bruce is correct on every point. 15:14  |  AV 11/05/06
  294.   Academics boycott Israel to get rid of competition 16:10  |  Anonymous 11/05/06
  295.   To Dutch on Herzl and the natives 16:16  |  AA 11/05/06
  296.   I`m an anti-semite !! 18:18  |  Thameen Darby 11/05/06
  297.   #171 jeff 20:30  |  tadchase 11/05/06
  298.   Yes, it is anti-Semitism 23:12  |  Yitzhak 11/05/06
  299.   response to Dutch 23:24  |  Carly 11/05/06
  300.   Dov 23:29  |  Carly 11/05/06
  301.   international law, raymond deane 23:36  |  Carly 11/05/06
  302.   Roger Brown 23:41  |  Carly 11/05/06
  303.   your post 23:48  |  Carly 11/05/06
  304.   ABOUT ANTISEMITIC ARTICLE, REQUIRING BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL ! 02:22  |  ALEX DRAGUNSKY 12/05/06
  305.   ABOUT ANTISEMITIC ARTICLE, REQUIRING BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL ! 02:31  |  ALEX DRAGUNSKY 12/05/06
  306.   Your Enemy Is Yourself And You Are Your Enemy 00:19  |  Be Within&Above 18/05/06
  307.   ISRAEL! 08:42  |  SAKRAYAMI 25/05/06
  308.   #296 Thameen Darby 08:50  |  sakrayami 25/05/06
  309.   I applaud you Bradley 08:52  |  Norma 05/05/08
  310.   Muslim History, not to be forgotten 02:36  |  reza santorini 13/09/08
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