Prof Ansel Brown says many countries are committing crimes and questions why the Israeli issue is relevant.
Prof Ilan Pappe from the European Centre for Palestine Studies at Exeter University in the UK said a boycott would send a clear message to Israeli academia that"they were part of an apartheid regime".Israel Apartheid Week, currently happening, is anti-peace and is about delegitimising the Jewish state, he says.
"Apartheid was the brutal suppression of the native black population by colonialists, while Israel existed for 3,000 years as the Jewish homeland. Trying to make out that Israel practises apartheid is manifestly antisemitic. It's historically and morally false and anti-truth. "In fact, the experience of Jews who were exiled from their homeland and oppressed by Europeans parallels the experiences of blacks in the US and black Africans." He says "discrimination, ghettos, demonisation and scapegoating are common experiences of blacks and Jews".
Brown says Palestinians deserve a better future but have been betrayed by their leaders. . “Elections would be a good place to start as Palestinians have not voted for their leaders in the past 10 years,” Brown said.
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