Scotland: "Campuses Bow to Anti-Israel Protest"

[shenmue]

http://m.scotsman.com/news/yiftah-curiel-campuses-bow-to-anti-israel-protest-1-3620311

From the article:

Earlier this month the Scottish media reported an alleged assault on a teenage stall worker at a Glasgow shopping centre, who was said to have had a burning chemical poured on her. She was believed to have been targeted by pro-Palestinian activists for selling cosmetics from an Israeli company. The alleged attack was preceded by “non-violent” groups targeting the stall.

[Scootaloo]

1. "after academic hooligans decided that freedom of speech did not apply to us"

I can't help but laugh when the representative of a repressive state claims that voiced opposition to his state and its representatives, means that he has no freedom of speech. After outlining two paid speaking gigs he's received, presumably during time off from speaking to his heart's content from the sedan chair he has at the Israel embassy.

Typical Zionism - only Zionism is "free speech,' and any argument of the philosophy is infringement of free speech, and ought to be shut down and silenced - by force of law if possible.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Funny...

"I left Glasgow with a nagging feeling that freedom of speech, a cornerstone of academic discourse and British tradition, may somehow not be applicable to Israel on UK campuses. The end result was not intended by the university or the students, but by choosing not to take action against a small number of deliberate disrupters, the university made a choice to bow to intimidation and to prevent the encounter from taking place."


So this piker is concerned about his so called intimidation, but in Israel these same "academic hooligans" could possibly have been shot or run under a bulldozer a few times for expressing their disgust at Israeli policies.

What a whiner.