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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The entire Salaita/Iliniwak Fiasco just proves how mean, nasty, vicious, ruthless, cruel and unprincipled the Campus Zionists have always been since I
started teaching here on August 21, 1978. They will stop at nothing to get their perverse way. The Campus Zionists are just a Gang of Academic Thugs and Moral Reprobates.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Fab.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Champaign IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 28, 2018 4:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Peace-discuss List (peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net) <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] Daily Illini items re Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">Yeah, as I said before:
<i><u>Campus Zionists are a Gang of Moral Lepers!</u></i> They maliciously procured the illegal firing of Steven Salaita;they threw him, his wife and their baby out into the street with no visible means of support; they destroyed his entire academic career;
and they eviscerated our Native American Studies Program that was intended to constitute Partial Reparation for Chief Illiniwak.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">FAB.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">D in BDS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">Law Building<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">Champaign, IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">217-244-1478 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">(personal comments only)<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>David Green via Peace-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 23, 2018 3:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Peace-discuss List <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Peace-discuss] Daily Illini items re Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#424242">DI blurb on referendum:</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#424242">The only referendum that failed 3,133 to 1,700 reads as follows: Shall the University divest, or withdraw investments, from specified companies in the University’s BlackRock portfolio that actively
normalize, engage in, or fund human rights violations as defined by the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights?</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">DI Letter from Cary Nelson et al.:</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Last month student senators listened attentively to two hours of public comment from UIUC students and faculty. The topic: should there be yet another referendum on this spring’s ballot about whether
the university should divest from companies doing business in Israel? That issue was widely debated on campus last year, and the referendum was soundly defeated.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Although people spoke on both sides of the issue, on one point speakers from both sides agreed. Jewish and Palestinian students alike testified that they felt harassed and threatened by the hate speech
the campus debate generated. Campus discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be civil, but contests to win a forthcoming vote often are not. Competition aimed at obtaining a victory involves passions of a different character.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">At the student government meeting, referendum advocates made their strategy clear: they were going to reintroduce the referendum year after year. A clear expression of student opinion opposing it in
a democratic vote didn’t matter. They were not giving up.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">That strategy has already been followed on other campuses, sometimes with annual votes taking place for a decade. Arguing over a divestment resolution as a result crowds out every other topic — from
tuition levels, to class size, to loan programs — that students care about and where their advocacy can make a difference.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">On divestment, a campus vote amounts to empty symbolism. No Board of Trustees is going to let students, faculty, or staff decide investment policy. Investment policy is a Board fiduciary responsibility.
A broad brush condemnation of a series of companies, moreover, simply invites Board dismissal.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Divestment is actually a complex subject that gets confused and falsified by the resulting tweets and posters and slogans. Some companies that do business on the West Bank actually make Palestinians’
lives easier, but they are nonetheless targeted for protests. A number of companies do not sell directly to Israel. They sell to the US Defense Department, where Israel makes approved purchases, drawing on funds appropriated by the US Congress. What would
happen to a US company that told the Pentagon it would have to approve the Defense Department’s customer list? Many targeted US corporations have offices and headquarters in Illinois. They offer internships to UI students. They hire students’ parents and relatives.
Such companies have reason to expect fair and specific engagement from UI groups, not uniformed condemnation.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Yet at the campus student government debate last month, companies in all these categories were basically accused of war crimes. That is not a carefully reasoned position. National BDS web sites target
any company, among others, that sells to the Israeli army, including companies that sell shoes and binoculars, even when the same models are marketed to civilian consumers here and abroad.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The University has important research collaborations with Israeli faculty members and their institutions. It has study abroad programs for students. Academic freedom provides that students and faculty
have the right to pursue those options. The same Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement that promotes divestment urges universities to eliminate all those relationships. It even says faculty members should refuse to write letters of recommendation
for students wanting to study in Israel. The local and national groups that endorse divestment endorse those demands as well.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is among the important topics that should be studied and discussed on campus. But a divestment debate is not a good way to do so. There are courses offered in our institution
that encourage a critical approach to studying Israel and Palestine. These engage in nuance and context, providing students the opportunity to learn in detail. By contrast the rhetoric surrounding the divestment debate can be shallow, informed by simplistic
slogans.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">We do not need another acrimonious divestment debate at UIUC.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Faculty Signatories:</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Brian F. Allan, Entomology</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Ilana Redstone Akresh, Sociology</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Richard S. Akresh, Economics</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">May Berenbaum, Entomology</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Jeffrey R. Brown, Dean, College of Business</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Nigel D. Goldenfeld, Physics</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Diane Gottheil, Medicine</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Rachel S. Harris, Comparative Literature</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Richard Herman, Chancellor emeritus</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Richard L. Kaplan, Law</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Deborah Katz-Downie, Plant Biology</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Michael H. Leroy, Labor & Industrial Relations</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Cary Nelson, English</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Gene E. Robinson, Entomology</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Jacqueline Ross, Law</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Richard J. Ross, Law</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Paula A. Treichler, Media & Cinema</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Paul M. Weichsel, Mathematics</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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