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Boycotting Israel as moral masturbation
By Bradley Burston


Just for the sake of argument, let's suppose that you're a British academic. You believe strongly that the occupation must end, that the Palestinians should have an independent state, that Israel's military and diplomatic policies are wrongheaded to the point of immorality.

What to do? Simple. Find the one group within Israeli society which has consistently, vigorously and courageously campaigned against the occupation since its inception.
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Then attack them.

Single them out for professional ruin. Do your best to get as many of their colleagues around the world to shun them. Yes, just as if you were in seventh grade and had decided to alleviate your own feelings of insecurity, inadequacy, panic and lack of requisite cool by cutting another victim from the middle school herd and lobbying your equally insecure colleagues to abuse the chosen victim.

Choose your victim with care. Select the one group in Israel which has taken substantive physical, professional, legal and personal risks, which has defied the spirit of Israeli nationalism and the letter of Israeli law, in order to seek out Palestinians to search for equitable solutions.

Select the one group which has, from the very beginning, spoken out eloquently for the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination, to freedom from Israeli domination, to freedom from disproportionate and often indiscriminate use of force, to freedom from social injustice.

Then denounce them.

Decide that your moral vision fully empowers you to declare Israeli professors and other university and college faculty to be unworthy of practicing their calling. All of them.

That is, perhaps, the real beauty of the British campaign to declare a quarantine over Israeli academics.

You really must envy the U.K. far-left for its blindness. Its consummate inability to see more than one side, which is to say, its demonstrated refusal to see Jews as fellow human beings, is only exceeded by its exquisite sense of timing.

No matter that in the whole of the 1991 Gulf war, Saddam Hussein managed to hit all of Israel with a total of 39 missiles, and that two weeks ago, Hamas sent 40 rockets into the Sderot area in the space of a single day.

No matter that Sapir College, Israel's largest public college, has for years been a primary target of Qassam crews.

No matter that in boycotting all Israeli academics on the basis of their being Israelis, the measure is patently racist, a grotesque reprise of the history of curbing academic freedom.

No matter that Israeli Arab academics who are staunchly opposed to the occupation are vehement opponents of the boycott as well.

No matter, even, that opposition to the boycott runs strong within the British University and College Union itself. In fact, all the more reason to press on.

For the genuine elitist, the unpopularity of an opinion is the best assurance of its real value.

Perhaps this is why the whole boycott campaign smacks of a uniquely far-left British brand of moral masturbation, a desperate, delusional, sterile, supremely self-contained form of non-activism that risks nothing even as it changes nothing.

There must be some reason why no one in this world does condescension better than the British far-left. There must be some reason why the British far-left manages to satisfy itself with a uniquely public, uniquely self-congratulatory form of ideological self-abuse.

Leftists abroad would do well to respect their Israeli counterparts for defying societal norms to work for the rights of people with whom their nation is at war. Perhaps the Israeli left deserves respect, as well, for having to do this while enduring the racist abuse of leftists abroad.

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  1.   You`ve hit the nail, squarely on the head. 13:15  |  Niall 31/05/07
  2.   If true, then they should be for the boycott. 13:24  |  Rutger Omedahl 31/05/07
  3.   The Apartheid must end Bradley 13:35  |  Daniel 31/05/07
  4.   Ending Occupation - Rutger 13:52  |  David 31/05/07
  5.   Facts, please, Daniel 14:08  |  sellier 31/05/07
  6.   Bradley,Bradley,Bradley Opening point is a Home Run 14:18  |  Ronnie Wolman 31/05/07
  7.   NOBODY`S PERFECT 14:21  |  indrajaya 31/05/07
  8.   totally off the mark 14:29  |  jj burke 31/05/07
  9.   Bradley Burston 14:45  |  Daniel 31/05/07
  10.   JJ Burke - Don`t Whine 14:47  |  John 31/05/07
  11.   jj burke - moral idiot 15:09  |  MarkC 31/05/07
  12.   this boycott is NOT racist or political but MORAL 15:11  |  David 31/05/07
  13.   # 8, JJ BURKE 15:11  |  indrajaya 31/05/07
  14.   Many have written on this "boycott" 15:16  |  Michael Steiner 31/05/07
  15.   jj burke 15:21  |  Inigo Montoya 31/05/07
  16.   jj burke2 15:23  |  Inigo Montoya 31/05/07
  17.   #2: 15:39  |  Michael Steiner 31/05/07
  18.   #10 15:48  |  jj burke 31/05/07
  19.   #9 Daniel from Mersey side 15:55  |  Itsik 31/05/07
  20.   Boycotting Israel by British Academics 16:03  |  Randy 31/05/07
  21.   we should boycott the english language 16:15  |  christoph 31/05/07
  22.   Some Comments on This Article 16:17  |  Howard Katz 31/05/07
  23.   A question for Daniel in the UK 16:27  |  Jacob Blues 31/05/07
  24.   Well David, that of course is a matter of opinion 16:31  |  Jacob Blues 31/05/07
  25.   As the Vilna Gaon Said... 16:41  |  Evan 31/05/07
  26.   3: Yes Daniel, when will you stop it? 16:44  |  David Teich 31/05/07
  27.   Jacob Blues-Very good question 16:54  |  almagor 31/05/07
  28.   Remind them of the Acco prison break 17:18  |  Jake 31/05/07
  29.   At first I was aginst this boycott... 17:33  |  GrossedOut 31/05/07
  30.   Unison in 14 days time will announce their boycott 17:37  |  Chris Linthwaite 31/05/07
  31.   Boycott Arab World`s abuse Womens Rights, Gay Rights 17:40  |  Margaret 31/05/07
  32.   The Left Does Respect those oppossed to occupation 17:47  |  Yaakov Sullivan 31/05/07
  33.   Far-Left Pro-Palestinian israeli Academics Boycotted 17:47  |  Penelope 31/05/07
  34.   Kassam are falling..... 17:48  |  Shalom 31/05/07
  35.   Evidence? 17:48  |  Frederico 31/05/07
  36.   ZIONISM is RACIST MASTURBATION 17:50  |  BOYCOTT ISRAEL-NOW 31/05/07
  37.   Honor Killings of Women in Palestinian Cities 17:51  |  Jen 31/05/07
  38.   "Morally masturbation" isn`t moral at all! 17:52  |  Sink 31/05/07
  39.   Giving Masterbation a Bad Name 17:57  |  FOX 31/05/07
  40.   Masturbation, the "LEFT" and Jews. 17:57  |  curious 31/05/07
  41.   For jj burke - Ditto 17:58  |  Les Moore 31/05/07
  42.   Perhaps British Academics should declare support 17:58  |  H50 31/05/07
  43.   The south African model 17:58  |  Yaron 31/05/07
  44.   #3 - @Daniel, "Apartheid", lmao! 18:02  |  Freedom of press 31/05/07
  45.   #31 Margerat 18:02  |  Chris Linthwaite 31/05/07
  46.   The Arab World is FAR from perfect, but OCCUPATION is AN EVIL 18:05  |  BOYCOTT ISRAEL-NOW 31/05/07
  47.   To my leftist "academic & intellectual brothers..." 18:07  |  bat yam 31/05/07
  48.   I love theses boycotts! Gimme more, more, more! :-) 18:07  |  Israeli right 31/05/07
  49.   Yaron 18:07  |  H50 31/05/07
  50.   They do what they can 18:11  |  Fritz 31/05/07
  51.   Bradley: Deja Vu! 18:12  |  CHGODMK 31/05/07
  52.   Silly bursting Bradley 18:13  |  Tosefta 31/05/07
  53.   Why is Ilan Pappe leaving Israel? 18:22  |  Abier Shamma 31/05/07
  54.   #23 media should bring them to task on China 18:26  |  Felix Drost 31/05/07
  55.   Not to go off topic, but it was what, just over a week ago 18:26  |  Jacob Blues 31/05/07
  56.   They want to stick it to the Jews 18:28  |  Sam 31/05/07
  57.   left is and always anti-Semitic 18:31  |  Tomas 31/05/07
  58.   #49, to H50 18:38  |  Yaron 31/05/07
  59.   knew i would find tosefta in section entitled moral masturbation 18:40  |  yirmiyahu 31/05/07
  60.   For Daniel 18:42  |  Simon 31/05/07
  61.   tosefta is being carried away by his verbosity 18:44  |  yirmiyahu 31/05/07
  62.   Lesson for Israeli leftists 18:45  |  Lou 31/05/07
  63.   Good article, Haaretz 18:50  |  Polybios 31/05/07
  64.   British Moral Masturbation 18:51  |  JW 31/05/07
  65.   The Brits Must Employ MORAL MATURBATION 18:55  |  Eli 31/05/07
  66.   Academic Wanker`s.... 18:59  |  Nils 31/05/07
  67.   Boycotting Israel 19:02  |  Chajah 31/05/07
  68.   Indrajaya? Israel An Evil Regime? 19:03  |  Yosemite 31/05/07
  69.   Talkback Generalisations 19:06  |  Stephen J 31/05/07
  70.   The left is not against Jews 19:09  |  Marilyn 31/05/07
  71.   Slap in the face of Israeli peaceniks 19:14  |  Gene 31/05/07
  72.   You`re pumping up the blood pressure Bradley. 19:17  |  Nick Ferriman 31/05/07
  73.   All Palestinians live under Self-Rule PA/HAMAS 19:19  |  Mohammad 31/05/07
  74.   Great - and excactly to the point. 19:22  |  Elias 31/05/07
  75.   Israeli and Palestinian academics = Helpless human beings 19:23  |  Swiss (Dino) 31/05/07
  76.   Make "Peace" with Qassam rocketers and Terrorists? 19:24  |  Shimon Peres 31/05/07
  77.   70marilyn, "nutters" & "squatters" 19:31  |  curious 31/05/07
  78.   Chris Linthwaite 19:34  |  Jeremy Woolf 31/05/07
  79.   Yaron 19:36  |  H50 31/05/07
  80.   Beautifully justified. 19:41  |  Ali bin Abu ibn Abd 31/05/07
  81.   Academic community that violates its own first principles 19:41  |  Shalom Freedman 31/05/07
  82.   To #70 19:44  |  Seraph 31/05/07
  83.   The British army is occupying Iraq 19:46  |  Colonial 31/05/07
  84.   Kerensky, Mirabeau, Mao, Lenin...Durban 2007 19:53  |  DJStahl 31/05/07
  85.   To # 77 Squatting 19:53  |  Seraph 31/05/07
  86.   #79 H50: Again 20:01  |  Yaron 31/05/07
  87.   For the sake of peace 20:03  |  Palestinian 31/05/07
  88.   Palestinian - You forgot your militant brethrens` part in the 20:17  |  almagor 31/05/07
  89.   "time to free those that never seen freedom" 20:19  |  Pablo Gonzales 31/05/07
  90.   WRONG Mr Burston...AGAIN 20:20  |  Adam 31/05/07
  91.   53Abier Shamma,don`t forget Tanya Reinhart,who had to leave 20:22  |  lakshmi 31/05/07
  92.   "Just solution for the Palestinians" 20:22  |  Sam 31/05/07
  93.   Bradley, it would have helped if you had provided at least a 20:24  |  lakshmi 31/05/07
  94.   show me something, Bradley 20:25  |  Pssd Off American 31/05/07
  95.   it will only make us STRONGER!!!!! 20:27  |  Shy 31/05/07
  96.   87 - What peace? 20:27  |  Bruriah Sarah 31/05/07
  97.   Far-left British behavior is patently racist 20:28  |  Gili 31/05/07
  98.   Smart move finally, you British fools - thank you! 20:29  |  Israeli right winger 31/05/07
  99.   OK I admit it 20:30  |  Ben 31/05/07
  100.   bradley ther is no doubt that we deal with WANKERS IN TALKBACK! 20:30  |  paul harris 31/05/07
  101.   Israelis should boycott Israel as well 20:31  |  Fritz 31/05/07
  102.   don`t antisemites eat avocadoes ? 20:31  |  rent-a-jew 31/05/07
  103.   36 - Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism 20:32  |  Bruriah Sarah 31/05/07
  104.   israeli apratheid 20:34  |  Roman 31/05/07
  105.   36 - Jews were treated like Garbage in Arab countries 20:35  |  Bruriah Sarah 31/05/07
  106.   36 - Hamas & al want to make Israel Judenrein 20:37  |  Bruriah Sarah 31/05/07
  107.   For forty years 20:44  |  Heinze 31/05/07
  108.   Americans should act NOW 20:51  |  Paul Henzen 31/05/07
  109.   Isolation as a Strategy 20:53  |  Seraph 31/05/07
  110.   104 - Arabs moved to Green line rather than live in PA 20:59  |  Bruriah Sarah 31/05/07
  111.   #12 David, the missguaded is saing 21:01  |  TOMY 31/05/07
  112.   109 - We will Surive 21:05  |  Bruriah Sarah 31/05/07
  113.   Boycotting 21:06  |  P. J. Casey 31/05/07
  114.   rent-a-goy #102 21:08  |  FOX 31/05/07
  115.   Lakshmi and Pssd Off American 21:08  |  Eli 31/05/07
  116.   Mr B Burston 21:16  |  Andrew Smith 31/05/07
  117.   The Palestinian(87) is rig 21:20  |  lakshmi 31/05/07
  118.   Bat Yam # 47 And Then I looked Around 21:31  |  Eli 31/05/07
  119.   jj burke 21:32  |  larry 31/05/07
  120.   #87 To Palestinian: For the sake of peace 21:33  |  Yaron 31/05/07
  121.   Boycotting Israel and the left 21:40  |  Connie 31/05/07
  122.   The left`s talkback comments are most instructive 21:43  |  Joel in Albany 31/05/07
  123.   I asked a beetle why it was picking on an ant 21:46  |  Efox 31/05/07
  124.   @9, daniel you are fool 21:46  |  vladimir 31/05/07
  125.   Who really gets hurt? 21:48  |  Jon 31/05/07
  126.   Lakhsmut 21:52  |  CHGODMK 31/05/07
  127.   Bradley Burston.... I LOVE YOU!!! 21:53  |  Adrian de Klerk 31/05/07
  128.   # 23 Jacob Blues - Well said 21:59  |  Adrian de Klerk 31/05/07
  129.   Mr. Burston, "you earned your pay!" 22:00  |  a wandering Jew 31/05/07
  130.   NICE HEADLINE BRADLEY 22:00  |  Albert Fischer 31/05/07
  131.   # 70 poor Marilyn the squatter 22:01  |  Adrian de Klerk 31/05/07
  132.   correct, boycott should be far more encompassing 22:05  |  Ernst 31/05/07
  133.   No Bradley, It`s moral reckoning.... 22:10  |  Dutch 31/05/07
  134.   Brits worse occupiers on this earth 22:15  |  silkey thread 31/05/07
  135.   "The Palestinians are ready for peace" 22:21  |  Sam 31/05/07
  136.   $52, "the boycott should be targeted" 22:23  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 31/05/07
  137.   Loony Left 22:41  |  Joseph 31/05/07
  138.   Re #12 contiguity and "morality" ahistorical and unfactual 22:45  |  DJStahl 31/05/07
  139.   Rockets equal peace? (113) 22:58  |  Jefferey 31/05/07
  140.   you are giving masturbation a bad name. 23:02  |  ralph 31/05/07
  141.   British academics: Modern day Nazis 23:02  |  Yoseph 31/05/07
  142.   fool. what has morality reason thinking have to do this? nothing 23:04  |  ralph 31/05/07
  143.   anti-israel anti-semetism racist bigots do not allow facts reason 23:05  |  ralph 31/05/07
  144.   boycotting israel 23:11  |  lisa 31/05/07
  145.   A call to Jews all over the world 23:17  |  Yonatan 31/05/07
  146.   Until UK boycot Muslims because of terror, this boycot is RACIST 23:18  |  Ignacio 31/05/07
  147.   re: rent-a-jew 23:22  |  Efox 31/05/07
  148.   Inigo Montoya I love Your posts 23:28  |  Zebulonguy 31/05/07
  149.   Self-interest - they want to eliminate their academic competition 23:31  |  Anonymous 31/05/07
  150.   what ye reap.... if you really feel betrayed 23:38  |  terry 31/05/07
  151.   Brilliant article 23:40  |  Edith 31/05/07
  152.   Go ahead Boycott Israel 23:45  |  Zebulonguy 31/05/07
  153.   116 - The design is NOT to have a contiguous Pal territory 23:51  |  david 31/05/07
  154.   boycotting 23:53  |  lisa 31/05/07
  155.   YONATAN # 131 - That Is Very Cruel, But................OK! 23:58  |  Eli 31/05/07
  156.   Bradley Burston 00:04  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/06/07
  157.   Yaron from Barcelona 00:07  |  christa 01/06/07
  158.   To David #153 You are wrong!! 00:33  |  dovvod 01/06/07
  159.   Kinda right 00:48  |  FriendofPalestine 01/06/07
  160.   126Chickmadoltduck! I am beginning to like your name! 00:50  |  lakshmi 01/06/07
  161.   Why not use the word? 00:51  |  Victor 01/06/07
  162.   Stephen J and UK academics 00:54  |  Ben 01/06/07
  163.   A rule of thumb about charges of "anti-semitism" 00:54  |  Bobby 01/06/07
  164.   Bradley Burston 00:58  |  Johnny 01/06/07
  165.   115Eli,okay this is not the right venue for asking for details 00:59  |  lakshmi 01/06/07
  166.   Daniel from Liverpool #9 01:00  |  Johnny 01/06/07
  167.   To Christa #157 01:21  |  dovvod 01/06/07
  168.   They are as blind as YOU are 01:26  |  Ruben Misrahi 01/06/07
  169.   #157, How can Monaco be free? 01:40  |  Bob 01/06/07
  170.   #89 Yes Pablo, it is time to return Spain to its natives 01:50  |  Bob 01/06/07
  171.   Duplicious British 01:55  |  Scharker Yid 01/06/07
  172.   Re #153 Gaza and West Bank already not contiguous 02:16  |  DJStahl 01/06/07
  173.   Kerensky was a "white" Russian- NO RED 02:25  |  Anonymous 01/06/07
  174.   Wankers? 02:32  |  Johnnymac 01/06/07
  175.   Thank you Mr. Burston. 02:36  |  Max S. 01/06/07
  176.   Let`s see them boycot all Israeli goods 02:42  |  Eyal H 01/06/07
  177.   #136 Bird from Outerspace and Earthly terminology 03:13  |  Tosefta 01/06/07
  178.   Lakshmi - We Are Covering a Lot Of Topics Here 03:18  |  Eli 01/06/07
  179.   Remove the intel chips 03:38  |  GZLives 01/06/07
  180.   153David,could you give us the full name for Halper? 03:38  |  lakshmi 01/06/07
  181.   If not a boycott, what? 03:38  |  John Coady 01/06/07
  182.   The "Left" is crumbling, striking out as it falls to its 04:00  |  Thereisnooccupation 01/06/07
  183.   Why is this happening now? 04:10  |  TonyL 01/06/07
  184.   boycoting Israel 04:12  |  Egon Kimel 01/06/07
  185.   #89 Pablo sure knows freedom 04:15  |  Captian Freedom 01/06/07
  186.   Lakshmi # 165 On Morals, Humanism and Politics 04:53  |  Eli 01/06/07
  187.   #180 Hello lakshmi; re Jeff Halper 05:34  |  Ben Alofs 01/06/07
  188.   Good Column Bradley 05:38  |  Bill 01/06/07
  189.   Daniel from Liverpool`s Hypocrisy 05:41  |  Bill 01/06/07
  190.   #183 TonyL Why is this happening now? 05:44  |  Ben Alofs 01/06/07
  191.   Let`s Start with some Definitions 05:46  |  Seraph 01/06/07
  192.   Bizzare Orwellian World 05:52  |  Bill 01/06/07
  193.   Moral Masturbation 05:54  |  Academic 01/06/07
  194.   #18 05:56  |  Moshe 01/06/07
  195.   More Jews must boycott the U.K. 06:04  |  Bill 01/06/07
  196.   Lakshmi # 180 - Jeff Halpern Is/Was An Israeli 06:15  |  Eli 01/06/07
  197.   Much ado about a micropoint (Eli #186 re Lakshmi) 06:33  |  Tosefta 01/06/07
  198.   Tosefta #197 - I Was Just Responding To Lakshmi 07:13  |  Eli 01/06/07
  199.   Boycott`s Unintended Consequences 07:13  |  Bill 01/06/07
  200.   #70 Marilyn and her "squatters" 07:34  |  JW 01/06/07
  201.   #136, Cipora: In Defense of Tosefta - I 07:46  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  202.   #136, Cipora: In Defense of Tosefta - II 08:11  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  203.   #170 Bob; it is time for you to return Long Island! 08:43  |  tad 01/06/07
  204.   #145 Yonaton 08:48  |  tad 01/06/07
  205.   Wrong It is a dangerous act of moral perversion 08:57  |  Shalom Freedman 01/06/07
  206.   Ben Alofs #190 08:58  |  TonyL 01/06/07
  207.   The boycott will fail........... 09:21  |  NS 01/06/07
  208.   Boycotting the wrong group - Page 1 09:21  |  Ron, Boston 01/06/07
  209.   Boycotting the wrong group - Page 2 09:22  |  Ron, Boston 01/06/07
  210.   BOYCOTTING Israel is a way of saying "Up Yours" to the West. 09:23  |  PETER SM 01/06/07
  211.   Thomas Jackson, Texas 09:36  |  Eric, Boston 01/06/07
  212.   Israeli Academics 09:50  |  Alasdair Anderson 01/06/07
  213.   #136, Cipora: In Defense of Tosefta - III 09:52  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  214.   masterbation 10:00  |  David 01/06/07
  215.   Boycott 10:01  |  Peter Dale 01/06/07
  216.   More Jews must boycott the UK!???? 10:04  |  Tareq 01/06/07
  217.   #24 Jacob Blues 10:11  |  Jan Vlaming 01/06/07
  218.   Thomas Jackson #201/202 10:26  |  S 01/06/07
  219.   Boycotting Israel 10:40  |  Barry 01/06/07
  220.   thomas jackson "in support of tosefta" 11:20  |  yirmiyahu 01/06/07
  221.   #211, Response to Eric in Boston 11:36  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  222.   research helps the IDF!!!! 11:41  |  mehmet 01/06/07
  223.   This is `Anti-Semitic`, so stand by! 11:59  |  Chris 01/06/07
  224.   Bradley: Painful, but necessary1 12:12  |  Spider 01/06/07
  225.   Academic Boycott of Israel 12:14  |  Prof. Clive Jones 01/06/07
  226.   A special place in hell 12:15  |  ghassan 01/06/07
  227.   Bradley: Painful, but necessary 2 12:16  |  Spider 01/06/07
  228.   It`s a bit like Don Imus 12:20  |  bbl 01/06/07
  229.   What should academics boycott then? 12:28  |  Tom S 01/06/07
  230.   Bradley, why do you always lose my stuff? 12:54  |  S 01/06/07
  231.   Bradley in did you hit nail 12:56  |  Ran 01/06/07
  232.   187Ben Alof,thanks and Eli and Tosefta,Ben it is good to know 13:03  |  lakshmi 01/06/07
  233.   British are Bastards 13:17  |  mahmoud 01/06/07
  234.   Their Ugliest Hour 13:24  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 01/06/07
  235.   #223 chris YOU ARE TALKING OUT OF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD 13:31  |  paul harris 01/06/07
  236.   what else to do? 13:45  |  Tess 01/06/07
  237.   Israeli Accademics must speak out 13:46  |  Saad Khatib 01/06/07
  238.   ghassan hills of the west bank are heart of the jewish homeland 13:53  |  ya hussein 01/06/07
  239.   #218, Reply to "S": What`s your solution? 14:18  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  240.   High Praise 14:22  |  John Mackie 01/06/07
  241.   we should boycott also israel medical and architect associations 14:29  |  cristina 01/06/07
  242.   thomas jackson you have enough on your plate 14:33  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  243.   thomas jackson`s last stand 14:36  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  244.   #43 Yaron 14:42  |  Itsik 01/06/07
  245.   Uk boycot 14:44  |  Nason Goldstein 01/06/07
  246.   well done and thanks Mr.BB 14:46  |  Issy Hass 01/06/07
  247.   Bradley Burston 14:47  |  Jeremiah 01/06/07
  248.   #70 Marilyn 14:58  |  Itsik 01/06/07
  249.   #79 H50 15:07  |  Itsik 01/06/07
  250.   #87 Palestinian and H50 15:16  |  Itsik 01/06/07
  251.   rent a jew 15:16  |  non purchaser 01/06/07
  252.   Theory vs. experience (Eli #198) 15:25  |  Tosefta 01/06/07
  253.   Question for anyone ... 15:30  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  254.   Pharaoh is Pharaoh , 15:32  |  Joseph E . 01/06/07
  255.   Question for anyone (2nd try) ... 15:35  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  256.   On apologists (Thomas Jackson, my defense attorney) 15:44  |  Tosefta 01/06/07
  257.   #247-8 Itsik 15:47  |  H50 01/06/07
  258.   #238 Thomas Jackson 15:47  |  S 01/06/07
  259.   Sarah Buriah #110 15:49  |  Itsik 01/06/07
  260.   #157 Christa 15:52  |  Itsik 01/06/07
  261.   #241 242, Dear General Custer: 15:54  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  262.   TOSEFTA #256 16:04  |  DRORA 01/06/07
  263.   257 H50 16:07  |  Itsik 01/06/07
  264.   #257 continue H50 16:12  |  Itsik 01/06/07
  265.   thomas jackson morally masturbates 16:12  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  266.   tosefta occupies the low ground 16:17  |  yirmiyahu 01/06/07
  267.   Paul Harris #235: One at a Time, please! 16:17  |  Chris 01/06/07
  268.   Boycott Israel? Bring it on!!! 16:18  |  Adi Burstein 01/06/07
  269.   Boycotting Israel/Jew 16:18  |  julius Klayman 01/06/07
  270.   #216 Tareq - British Jews boycotting Britain 16:20  |  Dr O 01/06/07
  271.   thomas jackson and his deal 16:22  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  272.   thomas jackson and falluja 16:25  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  273.   #267 YOU SAID IT CHRIS ALL 4 16:38  |  paul harris 01/06/07
  274.   Our verbally diarrhetic "flushman"; aka The Hydra/Yirmiyahu 16:40  |  Tosefta 01/06/07
  275.   To #241 Christina 16:58  |  dovvod 01/06/07
  276.   #241 Cristina in London 17:03  |  Itsik 01/06/07
  277.   #239 Thomas Jackson 17:11  |  Itsik 01/06/07
  278.   #258: Reply to "S" 17:16  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  279.   John Mackie #240 17:19  |  dovvod 01/06/07
  280.   Furthermore Thomas Jackson 17:23  |  S 01/06/07
  281.   Boycott our schools and kindergardens 241 17:31  |  Baruch 01/06/07
  282.   An attempt to discriminate British jews 17:33  |  Jonas 01/06/07
  283.   thomas jackson who will boycott the usa 17:40  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  284.   #256: Thanks to Tosefta 17:43  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  285.   The open society and its enemies 17:44  |  Geoff 01/06/07
  286.   May I suggest "moral performance art"? 17:45  |  Rob McGee 01/06/07
  287.   BRAVO BRADLEY!!! 17:47  |  Noa 01/06/07
  288.   England third world 17:51  |  observer 01/06/07
  289.   thomas jackson "no pleasure or satisfaction" 17:56  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  290.   #277: Itsik, if this a correction, I accept it. 18:00  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  291.   Boycotting Israel: Why Anglo countries? 18:02  |  Tosefta 01/06/07
  292.   yosem 18:09  |  dawood 01/06/07
  293.   #201,202,213, Thomas Jackson, Tossy`s pal 1 18:13  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/06/07
  294.   Boycotting Israel 18:29  |  Walters 01/06/07
  295.   #201,202,213, Thomas Jackson, Tossy`s pal 2 18:31  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/06/07
  296.   Itsik, you`ve missed my point 18:33  |  H50 01/06/07
  297.   thomas jackson and the long goodbye 18:53  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  298.   thomas jackson "its very sad indeed" 18:54  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  299.   #201,202,213, Thomas Jackson, Tossy`s pa, 3 18:55  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/06/07
  300.   JEW HATERS MUST ALWAYS BE FOUGHT 19:04  |  TONY 01/06/07
  301.   #201,202.213, Thomas Jackson, Tossy`s pal 4 19:09  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/06/07
  302.   #292: Reply to Cipora 19:21  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  303.   T. Jackson 19:24  |  Jasmine Murphy 01/06/07
  304.   #293 Comprehension of a Bird`s brain (re Thomas Jackson) 19:27  |  Tosefta 01/06/07
  305.   #120 and all similar ones 19:27  |  Palestinian 01/06/07
  306.   #256, "ingrained sense of Jewish charity" 19:29  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/06/07
  307.   #250, Itsik 19:34  |  Palestinian 01/06/07
  308.   tosefta and the uk 19:35  |  ariel 01/06/07
  309.   tosefta is a dunce but it should not be forgotten 19:37  |  arkady 01/06/07
  310.   Tosefta # 252 - re Theory Vs Experience 19:40  |  Eli 01/06/07
  311.   #301: One last question for Cipora 19:51  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  312.   so thomas jackson does a texans word mean nothing? 20:04  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  313.   Poor Israeli academics 20:04  |  joe blow 01/06/07
  314.   thomas jackson "tosefta and irony to good effect" 20:08  |  gen custer 01/06/07
  315.   Arabs Can`t Be Anti-Semites 20:13  |  Jacoub Hussien 01/06/07
  316.   #303, Jasmine Murphy 20:22  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/06/07
  317.   Bradley Burston: UK Guardian prints a letter 20:23  |  AM 01/06/07
  318.   So Says Cipora Julianna Kohn on Tosefta #293 20:23  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/06/07
  319.   Eli in Berkeley on Meir Baal Haness #310 20:44  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/06/07
  320.   TOSEFTA 20:45  |  JOJO 01/06/07
  321.   THEY`LL BE BURNING BOOKS NEXT FAO: Chris Linthwaite 20:53  |  Sam 01/06/07
  322.   Why is the main point not spoken to 20:56  |  JOJO 01/06/07
  323.   R. Meir (Eli #310) 20:57  |  Tosefta 01/06/07
  324.   hUSSEIN #311. 20:58  |  JOJO 01/06/07
  325.   OVER 300 QASSAM ROCKETS IN TWO WEEKS 21:00  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/06/07
  326.   Bradley.Good Article Thank you.,And adding some Paraphrasing.... 21:14  |  Kath` 01/06/07
  327.   Arkady - Are You Suggesting That Anti Semitism 21:29  |  Eli 01/06/07
  328.   # 262 DRORA @ Ben Ami / Israel 21:30  |  Joseph E . Post 1 01/06/07
  329.   # 262 DRORA @ Ben Ami / Israel 21:32  |  Joseph E . Post 2 01/06/07
  330.   That mosaic is stunning, Tosefta #317 21:43  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/06/07
  331.   # 321 Cipora Julianna Kohn 21:56  |  Joseph E . 01/06/07
  332.   Thanks Yaacov - Now You Made Me Nostalgic 22:04  |  Eli 01/06/07
  333.   Palestinian 22:27  |  Sam 01/06/07
  334.   Chris in London, not as easy as you think 22:31  |  bbl 01/06/07
  335.   Cipora Julianna Kohn, please see my important question at #311 22:37  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  336.   MORALITY? 22:37  |  Michael Greenberg 01/06/07
  337.   Saad 237 -- did you read the article? 22:42  |  bbl 01/06/07
  338.   Even University students goes with guns to classes 22:43  |  Bret 01/06/07
  339.   #312: Ah, General Custer; General Jackson here 22:44  |  Thomas Jackson 01/06/07
  340.   Jacoub Hussien -- get that dictionary back out 22:49  |  bbl 01/06/07
  341.   AM -- Palestinain academics also work in those univerities 22:59  |  bbl 01/06/07
  342.   How many of them were really academics? 23:01  |  A British academic 01/06/07
  343.   # 325 Cipora Julianna Kohn. OVER 300 QASSAMS ROCKETS IN TWO WEEKS 23:11  |  Kath` 01/06/07
  344.   I meant `humanitarianism` (Lakshmi #232) 23:13  |  Tosefta 01/06/07
  345.   To Bob from Long Island : Monaco is free 23:38  |  christa 01/06/07
  346.   #315 Hussein`s Dishonesty 23:43  |  Seraph 01/06/07