Petition Against South African Universities boycotting

We interrupt this blogging hiatus with an important announcement... 

Recently, hundreds of academics signed a petition calling on University of Johannesburg (UJ) to cut its academic ties with Ben Gurion University. Ben Gurion university had agreed to provide UJ with the expertise to clean algae infested water and save thousands of South Africans. Officially UJ voted to continue its ties with Ben Gurion however it imposed such stringent conditions that they are impossible to fulfill. This has prompted universities around the country to assess their ties with Israeli academia. As such we have launched the Coalition for Clean Water to combat this growing phenomenon and emphasize the benefits ties with Israel provide. We have launched a petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/cleanuni/petition.html We hope to gain international support. Your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated, please if you could send the petition to your mailing list or publicize it in any other way, we may be able to prevent a South African boycott of Israel. Looking forward to your response. Rafael Eliasov Vice National Chairperson South African Union of Jewish Students www.saujs.co.za

Following the egrigious decision taken by the UJ (University of Johannesburg) Senate, several other universities have added their names calling for the cutting of all ties with Israeli universities, including Rhodes (Saleem Badat), the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan university (Derrick Swartz) and the Durban University of Technology (Dan Ncayiyana).

The UJ boycott is probably the work of an Israel hating trifecta at the UJ, led by Stephen Friedman, Adam Habib (vice-chancellor) and Farid Esack.

• Here's a great piece by Jeremy Gordin that literally rips Friedman to shreds: What's Stephen Friedman got against the Jews?
• Also see this piece by former anti-apartheid activist Rhoda Khadalie: Universities blinded by political correctness

In case you thought that this radical action was driven by a real human rights viewpoint, then check out this article at Politics Web about the University of Johannesburg's strong ties with a university from Belarus: UJ in bed with Belarusian university. 

The University of Johannesburg recently made the headlines when its Senate decided to terminate its relationship with Ben Gurion University, in Israel, if various stringent demands were not met. Curiously, UJ has not acted with such alacrity in re-examining its relationship with the Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU), located in Minsk, Belarus - the country with the worst human rights record in Europe

Comments

[Shaun]

Sign your petitions, make a fuss. But in the end the Political aspirations but the Israeli haters will prevail in South Africa and UJ and a bunch of other universities will end is relationship with BGU.

http://www.chemie.de/news/e/105880/
“The two universities will brainstorm on how they can contribute to ongoing South African research into water purification in rural areas and around the Hartbeespoort Dam. In addition, they will research the feasibility of harvesting algae from the Dam and converting it to energy. The Hartbeespoort Dam remediation programme is being implemented by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) to address the imbalances and unhealthy biological conditions in the dam.”

The Freidman’s, Badast and friends will celebrate a major human rights victory. The Hartbeespoort Dam will become a sewage pit and those who live in the squatter camps and drink nauseatingly putrid water will be worse off.
But the Zionists will have been defeated.

[Steve]

Shaun...I agree :(

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And Julius Malema will be the next President for life and an honorary professor of double talk,obfuscation ,Marxist/Leninist social claptrap ,from thr UJ,life isn,t fair .

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Perhaps this priceless little tidbit will make things a little clearer.
http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/articleprog.aspx?id=51744
The major area of cooperation Between Ben Gurion University and UJ is how to clean up the water gong it the dam.

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