Davos chair apologizes for magazine's Israel boycott call - Haaretz

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The chairman and executive director of the Davos World Economic Forum on Thursday offered a sweeping apology to all delegates for an article calling for the boycott of Israel that appeared in a prestigious magazine issued by the forum.

Professor Klaus Schwab, who founded the annual Davos conclave 35 years ago, said he was "shocked" to read, just today, the article that appeared in the magazine "Global Agenda."

Some American Jewish leaders attending the conference said they were not satisfied with the apology.
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The two-page article in question was headlined "boycott Israel." Written by American academic Mazin Qumsiyeh, its message summarized in the subheading was "global civil society ought to boycott Israel until it ends its Apartheid-like treatment of Palestinians."

The article included:

* "Zionism can be seen as 19th Century style chauvinistic, ethnocentric... nationalistic response to prevalent European chauvinistic, ethnocentric nationalisms. It is in this sense an attempt at assimilation by some Jews following a now-outdated European colonial model."

Qumsiyeh proposes that "global civil society ... build a "Movement Against Zionism" or a global "Movement Against Israeli Apartheid."

I always check out who the sources are -- Here are Qumsiyeh's vitals - he is an Associate Prof of Genetics at Yale medical School, doctorate ffrom Texas Tech (as a long time Pittsburgh Steelers fan - Texas Tech is special for me - that's where Terry Bradshaw played). A link