In my last post I alluded to the madness with which I am having to contend, working here as BBA.
No sooner published, what did I encounter? Yet more madness: UCU claiming that a boycott is not a boycott. No, it's solidarity. No, really.
Not only am I stuck in a time warp, it seems the moment has been frozen in the absurd, where even academics can't make the most essential and, you'd have thought, basic of distinctions between demonization and scapegoating, on the one hand; and legitimate criticism, on the other. And not only that, in doing so, they then even want to make us think that a boycott is not a boycott. And that the sort of hate-fest on display in the hydra comments is debate. The swamp is overtaken with absurdity, on top of every thing else.
Someone, please, tell me this is not the profession I've chosen...
No sooner published, what did I encounter? Yet more madness: UCU claiming that a boycott is not a boycott. No, it's solidarity. No, really.
Not only am I stuck in a time warp, it seems the moment has been frozen in the absurd, where even academics can't make the most essential and, you'd have thought, basic of distinctions between demonization and scapegoating, on the one hand; and legitimate criticism, on the other. And not only that, in doing so, they then even want to make us think that a boycott is not a boycott. And that the sort of hate-fest on display in the hydra comments is debate. The swamp is overtaken with absurdity, on top of every thing else.
Someone, please, tell me this is not the profession I've chosen...
1 comment:
Dear BBA,
First of all KUDOS for your outstanding site and courageous stance!
Secondly, I work in a large university hospital in Israel(among the best in the world in both academic achievement and healthcare standard) as some sort of technician. For some time now I have been helping physicians (some of them leading figures in their respective disciplines) with typing scientific papers for publication in various medical journals, and of course with the ensuing correspondence. It came to me as a complete surprise that these Israeli scientists and researchers refrain from contacting British publications because they know they would be rejected due to their affiliation with an Israeli establishment and with no consideration given to the scientific merit of their paper. I have no statistics on how many British journals publish Israeli authors or how many Israelis choose or shun British journals, nor do I know whether this practice is common among members of the entire Israeli medical profession or perhaps limited to this medical center. It apears thus that the Israeli academia has been boycotting back for several years. I have no idea how long this "boycott Israel campaign" has been going on in the UK, but the anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli attitude of some sectors of the British academic spheres have not been lost on their Israeli counterparts.
Such a shame, wouldn't you say, because these scientific papers do make their way to the highest ranking journals in the US and continental Europe, and a journal is as good as the contributions it accepts for publication.
Good luck and God bless!
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