Jan,
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Best wishes,
Lawrence
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> In advance of the International Geographical Union Regional Congress in
> Israel in July, a number of messages were posted on the Critical Geography
> listserv (and others) urging boycott of the Congress for political
> reasons. .
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> For those of you who consider that such boycotts support critical
> scholarship and scholars, I attach the recent communications of Professor
> Steven Plaut and his general and personal attacks on critical human
> geographers and planners. They indicate the difficulties under which
> scholars in Israel geographers practice and the need of these critical
> geographers for support, not exclusion by boycotting their efforts in
> research, dialogue and community engagement.
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> I, and other international geographers who attended the conference in Tel
> Aviv and also the pre-conference of the Gender Commission, can attest to
> the high scholarly quality and the diverse nature of contributions by
> Israeli and foreign scholars on contemporary and historical themes
> related to social, cultural, and environmental life. Presentations and
> field studies represented a range of theoretical and methodological
> perspectives and discussions were insightful, reflective, and engaged. The
> program of the political geographers held at Ben Gurion University
> likewise attracted leading international scholars of diverse perspectives.
> Steven Plaut was not present at the events on which he reports.
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> See attached:
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> Email posted by Steven Plaut attacking the conferences
> Specific attacks by Plaut on geographers Tovi Fenster, David Newman, and
> Oren Yiftachel and colleagues.
> Note additionally the web site on which Plaut extends his attacks on
> political geographers.
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> Jan Monk
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