tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237022305227042607.post330125784411321007..comments2023-12-23T10:28:02.661+02:00Comments on Love of the Land: The 'American Studies' group, sheer malicious madness and the decision to boycott Israel Yosef Hartuvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02953012080767839213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237022305227042607.post-9023164771116872972013-12-20T19:27:37.586+02:002013-12-20T19:27:37.586+02:00This piece includes a reductive caricature of a qu...This piece includes a reductive caricature of a quote from Curtis Marez, which depends on ignoring the next two sentences that he said, which appear in the full, archived version of the NYT story: <br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/us/scholars-group-to-disclose-result-of-vote-on-an-academic-boycott-of-israel.html?_r=0 <br /><br />This editorial takes the easy way out here, cutting Marez’s quote to 5 words. Here is the rest of the quote: “He argued that the United States has “a particular responsibility to answer the call for boycott because it is the largest supplier of military aid to the state of Israel.” While acknowledging that the same could be said of a number of oppressive governments, past and present, he said that in those countries, civil society groups had not asked his association for a boycott, as Palestinian groups have.” <br /><br />It’s far easier for those opposed to BDS to generate a reductive meme that pretends 5 words were all Marez said and make that the sole basis of their critique; no one seems to want to confront the argument that ASA scholars found this issue especially important because Israel is the largest recipient of US aid and the US is therefore complicit in apartheid-like conditions there. This is irresponsible, shoddy journalism. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com