http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4529/tables_turn_us_university_boycotts_palestinian_university
THE AUTHOR, HIGHLY REGARDED MICHAEL CURTIS CALLS SARI NUSSEIBEH “A WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED INTELLECTUAL”…..HUH? NUSSEIBEH IS AN INVETERATE LIAR, BIGOT, AND PLAIN OLD ANTI-SEMITE. I HAVE HEARD HIS “MODERATE” RANT IN NEW YORK AT ONE OF THOSE LEFTY/TRENDY SYNAGOGUES THAT JUST LOVE INTERFAITHING…..THE PA AND ABBAS SHARE THE NAZI ASPIRATIONS WHICH ALWAYS START WITH THE 2 STATE DISSOLUTION OF ISRAEL….RSK
What goes around comes around. A celebrated US university suspended relations with Palestinian Al-Quds University. But that boycott was justified. Nazi salutes and paramilitary dress decorated a rally on their campus
In light of the recent demonstrations of ignorance, bigotry, and possibly anti-Semitism exhibited by the members of the two academic bodies — the Association of Asian American Studies in April 2013 and the American Studies Association in December 2013 — who voted in favor of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions — it is a seemingly ironic twist of fate that on November 18, 2013, Al-Quds, an Arab University, was suspended by an American university, Brandeis, from continuing the partnership arrangement between the two institutions.
Al-Quds, now with 12,000 students, Palestinians, and residents of Jerusalem, was set up in 1995 in the village of Abu Dis, just east of Jerusalem. Its chief source of funding has been the Ford Foundation; recently it has received funding from the Bronfman Foundation. Its president since 1994, Sari Nusseibeh, a professor of philosophy, is a well-known and respected intellectual, partly educated at Harvard and Oxford, who has established academic relationships with Israeli universities.
Regarded by most people as a political moderate, he has publicly called for a peace process leading to a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and for the renunciation of the Palestinian demand for the “right of return.”