It is time for me to speak against Sari Nusaybah. I never ever admired that man. This is a man who has been more vocal against the struggle of his own people against foreign occupation, than he has been against foreign occupation itself. For decades, he has fiercely opposed all political violence by Palestinians, even in self-defense--which is fine of course--but for him to now insist on depriving his people from the right to peaceful struggle? Nusaybah is not a unique or unusual phenomenon. There have been people like him in the history of colonization and foreign occupation. You have heard of `Allawi, no? The Norwegian word "Quisling"--Karzai in Dari language--(coined in 1940, and made its way into other languages) comes to mind. This is a word that Norwegians are not very proud of: it derives of course from the name of Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), a Norwegian politician who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. He established his name for someone, anyone, who collaborates with the invaders of his country, especially by serving in a puppet government. Every foreign occupation produces a "Quisling" or "Quislings" more accurately. I have seen "Quislings" in South Lebanon when Israel invaded the country. I am not sure whether it was Albert Memi in The Colonizer and the Colonized or Frantz Fanon in the Wretched of the Earth who warned about the internal colonization process in which the colonized wants to mimic the colonizer to feel good, to attain the civilizational aura of the colonizer. Accordingly, Sari Nusaybah has been keen on mimicking the Israeli colonizer for decades, and has made a career, founded a university, and attracted Western funding out of it. He feels "civilized" when he mimics the colonizer. Sari Nusaybah in effect does not only want to deprive the Palestinians from the traditional tools of resistance, but he wants the Palestinians to give up, give in, and surrender to Zionism. Boycott of Israeli universities, which have oppressed academic freedoms, practiced blatant racism against Arabs and--as we recently learned, Ethiopian Jews--,and which have been integral willing tools of a racist apparatus of domination, is (to quote from a famous Hadith) the weakest form of faith. It is a basic PEACEFUL form of struggle. US government imposes various forms of economic sanctions on more than 100 countries; these are considered acceptable forms of diplomatic peaceful measures. The Palestinians are now the only people who are under foreign occupation and who are expected to desist from all forms of resistance, violent and peaceful. This is a people that is expected to suffer, to die, to be occupied, but to take it on the chin, in the heart, in the head, or wherever Israeli bombs, bullets, shells land in Palestinian lands and on Palestinian bodies. Sari Nusaybah is looking not only for approval from the enemy--he has obtained high measures of that--but a feeling of superiority because he has obviously internalized the innate racism of Zionism, and wants to act "civilized." Spare me your civilization, Sari Nusaybah. And a well-informed and reliable Palestinian source, who wishes to remain anonymous, tells me this: "When the apartheid Wall was slated to pass through parts of the campus of the Jerusalem open university, Nuseibeh had his friends at Hebrew University intervened on his behalf with the Israeli authorities and rerouted the Wall around the campus perimeter. Neither he nor his Hebrew U friends interceded with the Israeli authorities not to confiscate the lands of Palestinian peasants though." Yet, and while the Palestinian people overwhelmingly support the boycott of Israeli universities (and remember that Israeli Orientalism has been the other side of the Occupation apparatus) the New York Times and other US media only care to mention the opinion of Sari Nusaybah who never won a popularity vote for any seat anywhere in Palestine. But he has the Zionist vote, and that is all that counts.