The British are Coming. The British Academic Boycott of Israel.

The British are coming, the British are coming and if I could, so to speak, toss their tea into Boston (or Haifa) Harbor and ignite a revolutionary movement away from their poisonous influence, I would do so in a flash. Why are we ex-colonials still so enamored of the Mother Country? Americans love, love, love all the romantic movies about Queen Elizabeth, Virginia Woolf, and Jane Austen and we love Merchant-Ivory’s classy British countryside (of course the writer on their team hails from India), and oh how we admire England’s savage, bracing wit and perhaps, how well the English language sounds when spoken with a British accent.

Enough already!

That anyone would turn to England (specifically to England’s academics) as if they were either sane or moral is frightening. Britain ruled her colonies with a high and arrogant hand-and her adventurers and intellectuals were always Arab-lovers, boy-lovers. And, down the centuries, they both burned and exiled the Jews. They did not allow European Jews in flight from Hitler to enter Palestine under the British Mandate. Yes, and some Brits took Jewish children in during World War Two-but that does not begin to atone for their heinous policies in the Middle East vis a vis the Jews.

But what ho? In response to the steady Islamification of England, the politically correct British intellectuals have become snarling dogs where Jews and Israel are concerned; they refuse to stop their howling against-not the Islamist preachers of hate or the heavily burqua’ed female jihadists in their midst-but against, you guessed it: Israeli academics who do not view Israel as a “Nazi” and “apartheid” state.

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