Ilan Pappe: I'm not a traitor

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Controversial historian Ilan Pappe left Israel last year after his endorsement of an academic boycott of Israel exposed him and his family to death threats. Now a professor in England, Pappe maintains that a cultural boycott on his homeland is the only way to end the occupation

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3516193,00.html

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"Last summer, the Pappe family packed its belongings, rented out its spacious house in Israel and moved to Britain. Ever since his support of an academic boycott on Israel's universities became public, historian Ilan Pappe, 54, has felt like public enemy number one. Pappe says he had received death threats by phone almost on a daily basis.

Did it not occur to you that calling for an academic boycott on Israel might incite the public against you?

"I supported the boycott because I believe that without pressure, Israel will not end the occupation. Even before then I reached the conclusion that the peace process enables Israel to stall for time. When in 2003 several international organizations approached me and asked whether I would support the boycott I replied positively.

"I believe that things would change only if Israel receives a strong message that as long as the occupation continues it would not be a legitimate member of the international community, and that until then its academics, doctors and authors would not be welcome. A similar boycott was imposed on South Africa. It took 21 years, but it eventually led to the end of Apartheid."

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1. That's disgusting that he's gotten death threats n/t

[hifalutin]

6. He'll learn to live with it,

Salmon Rushdie did.

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7. I'm sure he has, but don't you think it's disgusting he got death threats?

After all, we wouldn't hear the end of it if it was Muslims doing death threats...

[hifalutin]

8. Death threats

are NOT aceeptable anywhere.

Was it the Christians who placed the death threats on Rushdie or was it the Jews?

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9. No, they're not acceptable...

And it's not acceptable to divert attention away from Ilan Pappe and the death threats he received by pointing to Muslims doing it. So what? They're all as bad as each other, but this thread is about Ilan Pappe, not Salmon Rushdie...

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2. "I don't think there is one moral person in the world that supports what Israel stands for"

That about says it all. I suppose he's an anti-semite as well.

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3. Are you saying

that the entire U.S Congress is immoral?

LOL

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4. Did you read my post at all?

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5. Did you bother reading the article? Don't you think the death threats are disgusting? n/t

[azurnoir]

10. It is saddening that Prof Pappe and his family

have had to endure threats and and an unofficial exile, I do not think that a boycott of any kind would be of any use in this case. First because any type of boycott is in fact "collective punishment", the very thing Israel is "accused" of doing to the Palestinians, and IMHO would be pounced on as such.

[hifalutin]

11. I read

somewhere he is the most hated Israeli on the planet but I don't remember where.
Any clues, have you heard such comments?

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12. Try Ha'aretz talkback. That's where all the hatefilled idiots reside n/t

[hifalutin]

13. I'd prefer

something 'fair and balanced' not hate-filled.

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14. Can't help you there...

People who tend to be 'fair and balanced' don't go around reviling and hating Ilan Pappe...

[hifalutin]

16. Thanks anyway,

there's always good old google.

[azurnoir]

15. No I have not n/t