Comments about After the boycott - Jon Pike :
Brian Robinson posted on October 03, 2005 at 03:48:00 PM
Re what to do. Does anyone know what is happening re the plan or project to exchange medical students or junior doctors between the UK and Palestinian, and Israeli, medical schools and hospitals?
Brian
Brian
Jon Pike posted on October 04, 2005 at 11:50:59 AM
Brian, details of the foundation for Al Quds Medical school are here:http://www.fqms.org/about/index.asp
Al Quds Medical school is the only Palestinian medical school, and the foundation raises money to support training Palestinian students in the UK and the travel of UK examiners to Jerusalem.
Al Quds Medical school is the only Palestinian medical school, and the foundation raises money to support training Palestinian students in the UK and the travel of UK examiners to Jerusalem.
Jon Pike posted on November 01, 2005 at 10:56:08 AM
It's been brought my notice that there is a serious ambiguity in this piece. I want to make it clear that Yinon Cohen does not support a boycott of TAU and did not call for a boycott of TAU at the FFIPP conference. The crucial 'When' in the key sentence above has the force of 'when the day comes, if it comes..'
The paper outlines some hypotheticals, some counterfactual cases in which it might be right to support a boycott - viz, when called for by the trade union representing academics at the institution to be boycotted. Yinon Cohen heads that union at the moment. But it does not and he does not, of course, support a boycott. So the hypothetical situation introduced by my 'when' is absolutely and clearly not the case at the moment. I do not support a boycott of Israeli Universities, neither does Professor Cohen, neither does the TAU faculty Union, and he did not call for one.
I assumed the audience both at FFIPP and here knew this.
I also think that a reasonably charitable reading of the piece would make it clear that the misunderstanding is a bit odd. The whole piece is an attack on the boycott position taken the AUT and then overturned, thanks to us. It would be very odd if, in the course of that, I cited and endorsed non-existent support for a boycott from academics at TAU. Nevertheless, an unfortunate ambiguity in my wording allowed this odd view to be taken.
Close this windowThe paper outlines some hypotheticals, some counterfactual cases in which it might be right to support a boycott - viz, when called for by the trade union representing academics at the institution to be boycotted. Yinon Cohen heads that union at the moment. But it does not and he does not, of course, support a boycott. So the hypothetical situation introduced by my 'when' is absolutely and clearly not the case at the moment. I do not support a boycott of Israeli Universities, neither does Professor Cohen, neither does the TAU faculty Union, and he did not call for one.
I assumed the audience both at FFIPP and here knew this.
I also think that a reasonably charitable reading of the piece would make it clear that the misunderstanding is a bit odd. The whole piece is an attack on the boycott position taken the AUT and then overturned, thanks to us. It would be very odd if, in the course of that, I cited and endorsed non-existent support for a boycott from academics at TAU. Nevertheless, an unfortunate ambiguity in my wording allowed this odd view to be taken.