<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">BRAVO, David Green!!!<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417984398609_10251"><span></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417984398609_10254" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417984398609_10253" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417984398609_10252" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417984398609_10255" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Ahmad Hamdan <ahamdan2@illinois.edu>; "rwarrior@illinois.edu" <rwarrior@illinois.edu>; "sashermn@illinois.edu" <sashermn@illinois.edu>; Gary Storm <grstorm24@gmail.com>; "sbrotman@illinois.edu" <sbrotman@illinois.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, December 7, 2014 11:59 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Peace-discuss] Letter submitted to N-G<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417984398609_10256" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6272704587"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417984398609_10258"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417984398609_10257" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"> <div id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_6681" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><font id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_6680" face="Calibri">This letter responds to Jim Dey’s column of October 26<sup><font size="2">th</font></sup> regarding BDS, and implicitly to Gary Storm’s cogent commentary of December 6<sup><font size="2">th</font></sup>. It also responds to Nelson’s edited volume <i id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_7919" style="">The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel</i>, 470 pages, which I have read twice.</font></div><font face="Times New Roman"></font><div id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_6679" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><font id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_6678" face="Calibri">I support BDS and the Palestinian cause, but I do not support an academic boycott. Academic boycotts risk violating academic freedom. However, Nelson has targeted Steven Salaita from well prior to his de-hiring, thus making a mockery of academic freedom.</font></div><font face="Times New Roman"></font><div id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_6675" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><font id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_6674" face="Calibri">I support a two-state solution, as Nelson also does. Nevertheless, genuine support involves resistance against occupation. Neither Nelson nor his 30 co-authors can claim to offer such resistance. Instead they offer apologetics for Israeli aggression and lurid, baseless accusations of anti-Semitism in academia. Their arguments are for the most part propagandistic, decontextualized, irrelevant, or Islamophobic. Collectively, they display enormous self-pity among privileged academics who work in environments free of anti-Semitism.</font></div><font face="Times New Roman"></font><div id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_6677" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><font id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_6676" face="Calibri">Nelson, along with Rachel Harris of the U. of Illinois and historian Kenneth Stein, has written a chapter called “The History of Israel.” This chapter is not scholarship but liberal Zionist propaganda. It romanticizes Jews while being defamatory of Palestinians and Arabs. It is comparable to an exoneration of those who committed genocide against American Indians. I find it selective, tendentious, ethnocentric, and racist.</font></div><font face="Times New Roman"></font><div id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_6737" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><font id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_6736" face="Calibri">I challenge Nelson to publicly debate me on the substantive issues of the conflict. Given the institutionalized dominance of Zionism on this campus, it’s important to level the playing field in an open and safe context.</font></div><div id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_7938" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri"></font><br></div><div id="yiv6272704587yui_3_16_0_1_1417974378891_7937" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri">David Green</font></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>