Today, the Universities and Colleges Union is discussing whether universities should single out Israeli and Jewish scholars for active discrimination.
Yes, you read that correctly. The UCU is debating a motion which not only raises the spectre yet again of an academic boycott of Israel but demands of Jewish and Israeli academics that they explain their politics as a pre-condition to normal academic contact. The motion asks colleagues
to consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli institutions, and to discuss the occupation with individuals and institutions concerned, including Israeli colleagues with whom they are collaborating… the testimonies will be used to promote a wide discussion by colleagues of the appropriateness of continued educational links with Israeli academic institutions… Ariel College, an explicitly colonising institution in the West Bank, be investigated under the formal Greylisting Procedure.
The implication is that, if they don’t condemn Israel for the ‘occupation’, or practising ‘apartheid’, ‘genocide’ or any of the other manufactured crimes laid at Israel’s door by the Palestinian/Islamist/neonazi/leftwing axis, they won’t be able to work. Their continued employment will depend on their holding views which are permitted. The views they are being bludgeoned into expressing as a condition of their employment are based on lies, distortion, propaganda, gross historical ignorance, blood libels and prejudice. And this in the universities, supposedly the custodians of free thought and inquiry in the service of dispassionate scholarship.
Freedom of inquiry, see? Freedom of expression.
UPDATE: More fostering of dialogue. Because some speech is protected.
Quote of the Day (so far): “Is this an issue of free speech? No, this is an issue of women’s rights.”
I declare consensus reached and debate closed. Anyone who says otherwise I will smite with my Mighty Gavel of Consensus Declaration.
Stupid Jewish Science.
The collapse begins. Sad and despicable, academia blinds itself to politically founded bigotry and explores the convoluted rationalizations required to obscure it from the rest of the world.
AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Oh they’ll probably let them work, even without the approved opinions and politics. Just they have to wear a little name tag, so’s people can single them out.
that shit was going on in UK for sometime already
Sara, no need for singling out a PERSON by using a nametag, that might be discriminatory, so let’s go with something generic… I know! How about a star. They could pin that sucker right on their coats.
We know that, sasha. It’s still breathtakingly stupid that they can continue to debate this.
Apparently knives and Jews are a big problem in Britain.
It’s been going on since 1948!
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Sara, no need for singling out a PERSON by using a nametag, that might be discriminatory, so let’s go with something generic… I know! How about a star. They could pin that sucker right on their coats.”
I know, I know!
An armband!
An armband with a bright yellow star on it.
Tatoos…oh wait, that’s been done before!
Since we were looking for fascists on the left … VOILA!
It’s a good thing the crosses were not protected by glass.
Don’t worry! The Fairness Doctrine will solve all of these inconvenient expressions of inconvenient ideas. Apparently constitutional law classes at these universities teach the concept of “once a right has been extended by judicial fiat, everyone on the other side of that case is required to STFU!”
Somewhere, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are weeping.
You know, I think it would be best if we got them their own university. Built a big wall around it so others could avoid it. Warsaw college is sort of a catchy name, don’t you think?
Ghetto got you down, bunky? Get O!
Hm.
This “debate” has been going on there for about seven hundred years.
Here, in little pieces you can put together yourself, is a supporting URL that doesn’t want to be posted here for some reason:
http://
www.
britainexpress.com/
History/
medieval/
expulson-jews.
htm
Bah! I’m going to bed.
Lists! We need lists. First of all, we need lists of all of the rights that have been created that cannot be talked about except by those who accept that they are rights and can’t be debated.
BOO-YA!
And then … and then … AND THEN!!!!!!! Lists of all of those right wing neo Godbothering yahoo bitter relics who haven’t yet realized that certain rights only have ONE SIDE that can be discussed and that their discussion of the other side is really, really, fundamentally impinging upon the rights that have been determined and accpted and, thus, are undebatable.
With those two lists WE WILL RULE THE WOOOOOOOORLD!!!
BWAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
It’s Pinky, Pinky and the Brain … Brain … brain … brain
The lefties at U-Michigan in the mid-90s would post posters saying “NO FREE SPEECH FOR FASCISTS!” Of course, their definition of “fascist” included all to the right of Castro.
I declare consensus reached and debate closed. Anyone who says otherwise I will smite with my Mighty Gavel of Consensus Declaration.
Dan – Excellent sentence. It catches the leftist tone perfectly.
“Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
“Uh, I think so Brain, but I can’t memorize a whole opera in Yiddish.”
JD: You are on the list, my man. STFU!!!!
Challenge for serr8d:
NISHI SUPER SCIENCE
For when regular super science isn’t stupid enough.
BJ – Thanks. I was pretty sure that I was on the list, but confirmation is helpful. I shall choose my words more carefully.
My right to buy a pan of baclava at the Greek festival and still fit in my pants is not to be gainsaid.
And maybe some of those dolmades.
Mighty Gavel of Consensus Declaration.
I hope for your sake this was union made. That poster is a riot.
Wait a minute, let me check something …
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Yup, there they are! Education Guy and SarahW are both on the list.
STFU!!
Whatever, the list is fascist. And probably an unrepentant global warmer.
From the NP article.
Must be afraid of those Lutherans and their carbombs.
Yeesh, ThomasD!
If I were the university I’d force her to take Constitutional History and Law and force her to write a sourced essay on Freedom of Speech as put forth by the Constitutional Convention.
Then I’d allow the female head of the pro-life organization one opportunity to smack her upside the head.
what would be entertaining is having the usual left-wing progressive sorts, im thinking of anna quindlen and the late Molly Ivins here, maybe frank rich et al., give us their sense of where the balance of equities lies in the hothouse of campus rights and freedoms.
i would like them to try and find an example in the US of a similar travesty visited upon a left-leaning student. i would be interested in them finding a student censored for voicing opposition to Iraq, the free-market, Israel et al. Just one.
sort of like a snipe hunt, no?
Ms. Massa is just following the example set by her government. Free speech in Canada is dead. I do love the idea that all organizations will be investigated to ensure compliance.
I used to love Canada, having grown up so close to it. Now you couldn’t pay me to cross that border.
Come on, Edu Guy. Aren’t we all yearning for free national healthcare and cheap prescription drugs?
JD – Don’t forget the legalized doobage. It’s easier to not say anything once you’re stoned.
I dunno. Is the Windsor ballet still worth seeing?
No one expects the Canadian Inquisition!
McCarthyism is alive and well in 2008.
“…Then I’d allow the female head of the pro-life organization one opportunity to smack her upside the head.”
– Being the rabid jingoistic Neanderthal that I am, I’d be more inclined to dress her in a single yellow star, with matching jack boots, and make her tour the campus nudie-butt on a jackass for a week. Then I’d let the biggest honey from the womens wrestling team beat the crap out of her.
– Just possibly this Jooo hating womyn would finally get the point.
From above:
Ms. Massa said the new policy would not apply to religious groups that may be opposed to abortion on doctrinal grounds. Rather, it was focused on groups, whether student or external, “whose sole purpose is to provide the anti-choice side.â€Â
What does this even mean????
Obama camp: “Senator Obama has been planning a trip to Iraq for some time this summer, but joining Senator McCain would simply be a photo Op. Senator Obama’s purpose in making such a trip would focus on discussing the best way to get the troops out as soon as possible.”
McCain camp: “Its unfortunate that the junior Senator would not find it important and useful to accompany Senator McCain, with his extensive foreign policy experience, on the Iraq trip, and that Senator Obama doesn’t seem interested in asking the troops about the general gains in that region, but seems intent on dictating to the troops an impulsive, unwarranted hasty departure, regardless of the long term consequences of such a naive move.”
– Bada-bing.
– #37 – It means:
“….and if it wasn’t for those meddling right-to-lifers, we’d have gotten away with it too…dis-agreeing with us is like yelling “freedom of speech” in a burning theater…..”
Nan,
You’re expecting logical dialogue. As soon as you equate abortion to murder, discussion over. As long as conception and unborn fetuses are something less than life, pro-abortionist don’t have any guilt to deal with. CSPAN’s interview with Susan Wicklund was truly amazing, especially the women calling in. It may as well have been Margaret Sanger.
– And while we’re on the subject, whats this business about St Louis offering a “penis free” section in their ballpark. Is this the latest sexist assault on our freedoms?
“In a related story, the UCU today formally adopted ARBEIT MACHT FREI as its new fundraising campaign slogan. The UCU also announced that the top fundraiser of the campaign would receive an all-expenses-paid ‘Nostalgia Weekend at Auschwitz.'”
I dunno. Is the Windsor ballet still worth seeing?
Is the Windsor ballet code for “the beer store”, because if so then, Yes it sure is. Seriously, most often my primary reason for making the Canada trip was to evade NY’s alcohol age limit. Seems stupid now, but back then it was like making a run for the holy land.
I got kicked out of Canada for 30 days for trying to sneak a case of Molson’s Gold across the border without paying the tariff.
Why must everybody laugh at my Mighty Gavel?
That would make a good t-shirt Rob. I’m banned in Canada. Be a big hit with the ladies who love the dangerous boys.
“I moved here from Canada, and they think I’m slow, eh?”
The Windsor Ballet(s) are some of the finest in the world.
Yeah, unfortunately, I’m not eighteen years old anymore, and drunk driving isn’t as romantically dangerous as it use to be. Now if I drink a beer, I end up with a headache and a couple of bathroom visits. No t-shirt material there!
Still? Good.
Rob C – Not that I would know from first hand(s) experience, or anything like that. I have just heard that. ;-)
Without the ballet, trips to Detroit would be brutal.
I take stuff from the Spectator with a pretty big grain of salt, but this wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Ok, checking the list one last time:
Rob O’Conner? Check
Sean M.? Check
Rob Crawford? Check
Mojo? Mojo? Mojo? Hmmmmm … must have missed one.
BBH? Oooo, with a star, no less! Kinky!
MarkJ? Check
Jim in KC? Check
Aldo? Check
Nan? Under review? WTF?
JD? Wow…. bolded, underlined with skulls and poison symbols and elephants being bungholed by donkeys.
OK. everybody, pay attention….
STFU (unless your obections are purely religious and or doctrinal, then speak up and be ignored and belittled.)
I’m an Independent Conservative Catholic Capitalist. Why should I care if I’m ignored or belittled by anyone on this blog? Oh BTW, I’m also anti-acronym.
I am a broken-toothed redneck living in a tin-roofed shack with the hulks of dead automobiles in the front yard.
Not only will I not STFU, I will spray you with Coors Lite (used) if you get too insistent.
Regards,
Ric
Rob
Same here. Those days are long gone, and not only do I not miss them, I’m still shocked I survived them.
BJ: Mojo? Mojo? Mojo? Hmmmmm … must have missed one.
Open up yer eyes, boy!
Ric Locke is Memberus Emeritus on the STFU list. With epaulets and oak leaf cluster.
Mojo: Found you! STFU!
Rob O’Conner: That whole Catholic/religious thing allows you to swing the doctrinal way and allows you to speak your mind. You’ll merely be mocked rather than having to STFU. But you are required to wear a crucifix. White gloves would also be nice.
The rest of you: (consults list) STFU!!!!!
What does this even mean????
I speak Canadian. Allow me to translate. It roughly says: ‘Not only do I get to decide who gets to speak, I also get to decide why they get to speak, and anyone who doesn’t like it can really STFU.’
Hope that helps.
Hey, everybody, if you want something said, let me know.
I remain unlisted.
BJTexas:
My step-son heard that his jr. high girlfriend was going to break up with him, so he immediately texted her a Dear Jane letter.
I take my cue from him, and preemptively tell you to STFU!!!!!
So when do people begin to take this stuff seriously?
This is Germany, circa 1934, redux. What ought to happen is for our esteemed Congress to suspend their investigation of baseball long enough to revoke the tax exempt status of any “educational” institution that goes along with this stunt.
That isn’t happening. If I were Jewish, I’d get a gun and ammunition. Seriously. After all, 1934 wasn’t really that bad. A decade later was far too late.
Cowboy, your stepson has got it going on. He shall do well.
About thirty minutes after the jackboots march past.
I need to be on that list so that I can Still Think Fuzzy Ulcers.
Or something.
“Windsor Ballet”
That’s code for hooker. Right?
How do you get on the STFU list?
Is being a Heathen Conservative redneck truck driver who would stand up and strangle these loons with their own entrails if they actually did anything to match their rhetoric enough? If so, sign me up…
Strippers.
Celtic Dragon and dicentra:
Done and duly noted. Now STFU!!!!!
you both will have to clearly deliniate when your views are doctrinal rather than political so that the STFU can be amended to mocking and ignoring. Please leave a note under the door.
#67
Don’t like strippers, unless she’s going home with me. I like hookers. And bourbon. And stuff.