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Ben Gurion UniversityBen Gurion University – Neve Gordon reiterates call for boycott on NY radio station
http://australiansforpalestine.com/audio-neve-gordon-interviewed-on-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions AUDIO: Neve Gordon interviewed on Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions Broadcast Date: Israeli scholar's support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign sets off a fire-storm of protest. The Israel Project supplies right-wing supporters of Israel with a 116-page propaganda lexicon. We talk with Esther Broner about her latest novel. Guests: Neve Gordon is a long-time Israeli peace activist, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University, and the author, most recently, of Israel.s Occupation. Hosts: Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark In a recent op-ed in the LA Times, Neve Gordon explained why he has come to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. We talk with Neve about his decision and about the fire-storm of protest his op-ed has evoked. (To read Gideon Levy's response in Haaretz to these protests, click here. And for a website that tracks Israeli and international companies that profit from the Occupation, click here.) Download this audio in mp3 format
IsraCampus.Org.il's Summary of audio interview: Neve Gordon repeats claim that Israel is an Apartheid regime. Lumps all non-Jewish Israeli citizens as “Palestinians”. He wants the “pre-occupied” middle-class to “feel” the financial pinch to effect “change”. Claims an obscure sentence from the original editorial said that his advocacy of BDS was to be “gradual”. Demands an academic boycott of Ariel College. Advocates tracking businesses that work in Judea and Samaria. Believes the BDS is for all: “one-state” and “two-state” believers as well as “Zionists” and “Anti-Zionists”. BDS is a tool for which to force Israel to abide by “international law”. Voices opinion on tenure and BGU President's comments: Academic freedom is at stake, his right to call for a boycott has to be protected. Testifies to receiving 5000 emails of support – 1000 from professors and other Academic Institutions around the world [Why can’t he go to one of those Universities and feel more at home?] Belittles the BGU donors and calls the donor boycott of BGU “ironic”.
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