And what about those Israeli voices who, for example, and perhaps with a degree of enlightened self-interest, recognise as legitimate the existence of a fully functioning Palestinian state and regard that as a key to 'peace' in that part of the world?
Ian Jennings
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University of Leeds
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Sent: 21 September 2010 13:51
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Subject: Re: Corporate Boycott of Israeli Goods
Richard Aird writes
> Our local authority has taken the decision to boycott Israeli goods,
> which appears to extend to books written by Israeli authors. Whilst
> we support the principle behind the corporate decision, we are
> naturally concerned about the message this sends out about how our
> libraries are stocked and the implications this has.
Are you also intending to block access to Israeli web sites? If
so, how will you determine what these site as, and what pages
on them are written by Isreali authors and which one by non-Israelis?
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
skype: thomaskrichel
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