My letter PUBLISHED in the NYTimes: Parsing an Academic Boycott of Israel

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/opinion/parsing-an-academic-boycott-of-israel.html?ref=international

LETTERS Published: December 17, 2013

Parsing an Academic Boycott of Israel

Re “Boycott by Academic Group Is a Symbolic Sting to Israel” (front page, Dec. 16): 

1. Anti-Boycott Letter by DAVID HARRIS Executive Director, American Jewish Committee

2. Anti-Boycott Letter by MICHAEL A. SALBERG Director, International Affairs, Anti-Defamation League

3. Letter by me...

To the Editor:

 

You report that “the American Studies Association resolution bars official collaboration with Israeli institutions but not with Israeli scholars.” Sounds more like a partial boycott and, yes, a “symbolic sting,” as your headline has it. Israel’s ambassador to the United States claims that Israel is “the sole democracy in the Middle East.” But there is very little freedom or justice for the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine. 

A secular two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would go a long way toward eliminating the religious extremism, bigotry, injustice and refugee crises created by the conflict. 

ANNE SELDEN ANNAB
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Dec. 17, 2013

4. Anti- Boycott Letter by DAVID RAWSON of Brooklyn

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Orginal text of my letter 

My letters to the NYTimes & the Guardian RE Boycott by Academic Group Is a Symbolic Sting to Israel & Roger Waters and the antisemitism question

ROGER WATERS Photograph: Torben Christensen/AFP/Getty Images