Statements Of The Day
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Professor Rachel Giora of the University of Tel Aviv backs the boycott of her colleagues with different views;

"I support every form of criticism against the current policies of the Israeli government," she says.

Q: There are those that claim that calls to boycott Israel are an expression of a known and ancient European anti-Semitism.

A: "Israel is not the victim here, but the aggressor, and the criticism against it are not a form of anti-Semitism. Those who criticize it assume that it is possible to demand that it be moral--To stop the killing and the starvation, and to get out of the territories. On the part of Israelis criticizing their country, they are doing it out of deep worry for the society in which they live."

Source:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3257291,00.html