Sunday, February 15, 2009
The lies of Nusseibeh
Did I not tell you that Nusseibeh was lying two weeks ago when he said that his university would start a boycott of Israeli universities? "“We do a lot of projects with Israel,” he continued. “I get criticism for it because many Palestinians want to boycott Israeli educational institutions. But the West Bank economy is 70 to 90 percent dependent on Israel. At least we should profit from their education. It is the one thing in my view we absolutely should not boycott.”. And notice that of all the universities in the US, he insisted on an exchange program with Brandeis--one of the most Zionist universities in the US (where a drop out from a graduate school in architecture, Kanan Makiyya, was crowned a "professor" in Arab studies just because of his Zionist leanings.)