Richard Stallman answer to me

[Omer Zak]

Given the circumstances, I think that the most honorable thing that can
be done is to have the organizers of the non-university talk - cancel it
and explain to him the evilness of academic boycotts of universities
which do not themselves practice discrimination or censorship of the
opinions which he advocates.

--- Omer



On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 03:05 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
> On Monday 06 June 2011 at 02:54:12 (GMT+2) Hetz Ben Hamo 
> <hetzbh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi People,
> > 
> > I just got this answer from Richard Stallman.
> > 
> > Apparently, he *does* plan to give a talk in Israel, but not in any
> > Israeli university.
> > I actually find this pretty weird, considering that most of the
> > universities in Israel are full of staff from the left-side of the
> > political map (TAU for exmaple?)
> 
> It's not weird at all. The screwballs who participate in boycotts are 
> not at all interested in details, but are grabbed by buzzwords, e.g. 
> "Israel". Since they themselves are students or faculty in universities, 
> it occurs to them to boycott other universities, never considering that 
> universities are precisely where they are most likely to find their 
> soul-mates. It's all completely logical. Compare, for example with the 
> British situaation, where calls for boycott originate almost exclusively 
> in the universities and labor unions, i.e., in all the strongholds of 
> the left. Left = Gauche in French, Sinister in Latin. There is probably 
> a language somewhere in which Left = Stupid.
> 

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