Who Cares That 500 Academics Endorse A Boycott Of Israel?

Daled Amos
21 September '10

Academic: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
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Just how much weight should we give to something like this?

Over 500 academics endorse boycott of Israel

The call was dismissed as having little to no significance and was reflected in the statement from Gerald Steinberg. For Steinberg and others, the power of an academic and cultural boycott would be achieved with a critical mass of 500 endorsers.

The US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) has reached that critical number. Endorsements by US academics and scholars recently crossed 500, and there are now 150 cultural workers who have also endorsed USACBI!

This is a major victory for the growing academic and cultural boycott of Israel, and for the movement for justice and equality in Israel, as defenders of the status quo in Israel have repeatedly observed that the legitimacy of the state of Israel in the global court of public opinion is threatened by the boycott movement.

Obviously the person who wrote this thought that a lot of weight should be given to this.
But why?

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