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Follow Us on TwitterProf Jake Lynch (NSW) responds to The Australian’s campaign against BDS 25Jun13 June 25, 2013
The Australian, Letters - 25 June 2013
YOUR campaign to equate the call for an academic boycott of Israel with anti-Semitism is an attempt, as sinister as it is absurd, to stifle an important debate.
There are other countries that occupy territory recognised as not their own; kill large numbers of civilians in military action; stockpile nuclear weapons without joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and violate the 1973 UN convention against apartheid. But only one does all four.
There is no non-Jewish state in that category, so the charge of discrimination is easily disproved. Or are you resolved not to let facts get in the way of a good witch-hunt?
Jake Lynch, director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Sydney University
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