Comments on: Alan Dershowitz’s passionate defense of boycott, divestment, and sanctions http://www.hybridstates.com/2010/01/alan-dershowitzs-passionate-defense-of-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions/ Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:50:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Yaniv Reich http://www.hybridstates.com/2010/01/alan-dershowitzs-passionate-defense-of-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-5093 Yaniv Reich Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:21:31 +0000 http://www.hybridstates.com/?p=1403#comment-5093 Dear Louis Lipsky, My title is Mr., but you can feel free to call me by first name. You are right I should have cited the hysterical responses. But I trusted that my dear readers would know how to use The Google to find basic information. So, for example, in the very first search I did today on "BDS anti-semitism", I found a quote from Dershowitz that said: "This divestment campaign [at Hampshire College] has absolutely nothing to do with human rights. It is motivated purely by hatred for the Jewish state." That, in my view, is precisely the sort of hysterical response I was referring to. In the first-page results of this same single search, NGO Monitor has a piece in which they describe BDS as follows: "the antithesis of universal human rights values, rooted in immoral double standards that single out and condemn Israel as a pariah state. The BDS movement also rejects the very existence of Israel as a Jewish entity. Inasmuch as BDS activists seek to eliminate Jewish self-determination, the movement (as a movement, not necessarily every individual linked to it) is anti-Semitic." Again, this is the very definition of hysteria, in my opinion, in that it's motivated more by raw emotion that objective contention with the reality of Israeli occupation and rights violations. In other words, you need not worry I am arguing with straw man arguments I have created myself. The Google and the magic intertubes can help you see that. I encourage you to give them a good read before you accuse me of falsifying positions that are documented in literally tens of thousands of websites. Dear Louis Lipsky,

My title is Mr., but you can feel free to call me by first name.

You are right I should have cited the hysterical responses. But I trusted that my dear readers would know how to use The Google to find basic information. So, for example, in the very first search I did today on “BDS anti-semitism”, I found a quote from Dershowitz that said: “This divestment campaign [at Hampshire College] has absolutely nothing to do with human rights. It is motivated purely by hatred for the Jewish state.” That, in my view, is precisely the sort of hysterical response I was referring to.

In the first-page results of this same single search, NGO Monitor has a piece in which they describe BDS as follows: “the antithesis of universal human rights values, rooted in immoral double standards that single out and condemn Israel as a pariah state. The BDS movement also rejects the very existence of Israel as a Jewish entity. Inasmuch as BDS activists seek to eliminate Jewish self-determination, the movement (as a movement, not necessarily every individual linked to it) is anti-Semitic.” Again, this is the very definition of hysteria, in my opinion, in that it’s motivated more by raw emotion that objective contention with the reality of Israeli occupation and rights violations.

In other words, you need not worry I am arguing with straw man arguments I have created myself. The Google and the magic intertubes can help you see that. I encourage you to give them a good read before you accuse me of falsifying positions that are documented in literally tens of thousands of websites.

]]> By: Louis Lipsky http://www.hybridstates.com/2010/01/alan-dershowitzs-passionate-defense-of-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-5089 Louis Lipsky Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:29:11 +0000 http://www.hybridstates.com/?p=1403#comment-5089 Mr. Reich (no background or titles offerred bythe site management) is more guilty of his own criticism of Dershowitz than is Dershowitz. Reich writes: "By far the most common reaction to calls for an Israel boycott is the hysterical Jewish response that this is an anti-Semitic effort bent on the destruction of Israel." It would be appropriate to cite at least one instance of this "hysterical" response. But there is none. Dershowitz himself has been quoted as criticizing noy oycott itself, but the selective boycott of Pro-Israel speakers by the Norwegian academic community. So what's the surprise that he writes what he does? If Reich wants to argure with himself, he should do so in the privacy of his own computer. If you want to go public on the web, don't falsify other people's positions just to make yourself look good. Mr. Reich (no background or titles offerred bythe site management) is more guilty of his own criticism of Dershowitz than is Dershowitz. Reich writes: “By far the most common reaction to calls for an Israel boycott is the hysterical Jewish response that this is an anti-Semitic effort bent on the destruction of Israel.” It would be appropriate to cite at least one instance of this “hysterical” response. But there is none. Dershowitz himself has been quoted as criticizing noy oycott itself, but the selective boycott of Pro-Israel speakers by the Norwegian academic community. So what’s the surprise that he writes what he does?
If Reich wants to argure with himself, he should do so in the privacy of his own computer. If you want to go public on the web, don’t falsify other people’s positions just to make yourself look good.

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