Why boycott the Israelis?

Re “Group votes for a boycott,” Dec. 17

Russia invades Chechnya for the second Chechen war, causing up to 200,000 civilian casualties. After winning the war, it installs a repressive, corrupt government.

Boycott?

China takes over an entire country — Tibet — and floods it with ethnic Han and destroys a religion and culture.

Boycott?

After perusing a list of the world’s dictatorships and even genocidal regimes, who do these “educators” decide to punish? The academics of a tiny, true democracy that just happens to be the only Jewish state on Earth.

The academics of Israel don’t make their government’s policies, and many don’t even agree with those policies. Yet they would all be isolated for one reason: They are Israeli.

Think of how this tactic would play out around the world if the “educators” of one country decided to boycott the colleges of any other country with whose policies they disagreed.

Joel Jaffe
Beverly Hills
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