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If I may add, the boycotting of Israeli academia has to do not so much with the "degree" of the implicit presence of old antifeminism as with the explicit presence of the new-anti-Semitism. You might be interested to read more about the boycott and the new anti-Semitism in the attached lecture I gave on this topic in the Oxford 2006 conference on the issue of boycotting Israeli academia.

In light of the relations between current postmodern rhetorical, psychic, philosophical and political trends and its articulation within postcolonialist frameworks it is a challenge well beyond the signification of "degrees" of "old" anti-Semitic "influences" or "degrees" of Israeli manipulations of anti-Semitic attacks as a gate for Israeli escape from responsibility and self-awareness.

In my latest book I go into it in more detailed manner and here I will offer it "AL REGEL ACHAT": you cannot disconnect the new anti-Semitism from current global changes in cyberspace, post-Fordist production-consumption-representation and postcolonialist/radical feminist philosophy and the quest to trade "critique" with new relations with the cosmos/body/spirituality. It is not a mere political challenge; surely it transcends "Hasbara" or "manipulations of bad consciousness". What we face here is a contextual manifestation of the path-searching of the truth of "our" present historical moment.

It is not so much a matter of the better argument having the upper hand, surely not a matter of better being informed and political responsibility headed by British academia that need so badly to purify itself from its colonial essence and its colonialist history. It has much more to do with the dialectics of the transformation of the humanist project and its failure ito the opposing alternatives that serve-represent current capitalist realities of "soft" poststructualist-postcolonialist politics, on the one hand and the "new spirituality", on the other.

Many of these British professors are not committed to a serious elaboration of the facts (more known as "facts") or the complexity of the issue at stake in light of the burning quest for individual salvation in the omnipotent presence of the colonialist cannibalistic triumph of Judeo-Christian spirit that Israel and Jewish monotheism (and the quest for homogeneity) represent and serve as its impetus. In boycotting Israeli academia, therefore, you are closer to struggling the Lutziferian power, or, the essence of colonialism, namely, the quest to overcome heterogeneity, diversity, otherness and the quest for violent "consensus", "truth", and (American like) "