| | Similarly, the self-appointed guardians of human rights, including NGO superpowers such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, are silent when Israelis are the victims. Indeed, they are very active in promoting the apartheid inherent in the boycott movement, which is the current Western embodiment of the Arab League’s economic boycott of Israel. The anti-Israel campaigners in the democratic West who wrap themselves in the façade of human rights and opposition to racism are part and parcel of this apartheid.</blockquote> | | Similarly, the self-appointed guardians of human rights, including NGO superpowers such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, are silent when Israelis are the victims. Indeed, they are very active in promoting the apartheid inherent in the boycott movement, which is the current Western embodiment of the Arab League’s economic boycott of Israel. The anti-Israel campaigners in the democratic West who wrap themselves in the façade of human rights and opposition to racism are part and parcel of this apartheid.</blockquote> |
| − | Eyewitness to propagandists and intimidating at Lebanese Arab anti-Israel author, Gilbert Achcar's Center for Palestine “Studies” at SOAS:<ref>Doron S. Ben-Atar, Andrew Pessin, "Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS," (Indiana University Press, 2018), [https://books.google.com/books?id=OIdYDwAAQBAJ&pg-PA185&lpg=PA185 pp. 184-5].</ref> | + | Eyewitness to propagandists and intimidating at Lebanese Arab anti-Israel author, Gilbert Achcar's Center for Palestine “Studies” at SOAS:<ref name=soas2012>Doron S. Ben-Atar, Andrew Pessin, "Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS," (Indiana University Press, 2018), [https://books.google.com/books?id=OIdYDwAAQBAJ&pg-PA185&lpg=PA185 pp. 184-5].</ref> |
| | In May 2012, I went to a Palestine society event at SOAS where the anti-Israel journalist Abdel Bari Atwan was due to speak. Atwan had once declared, "If Iranian missiles hit Israel, I will dance in Trafalgar Square," so I felt I had to be there to record what else he had to say about Israel's destruction to an audience of students. | | In May 2012, I went to a Palestine society event at SOAS where the anti-Israel journalist Abdel Bari Atwan was due to speak. Atwan had once declared, "If Iranian missiles hit Israel, I will dance in Trafalgar Square," so I felt I had to be there to record what else he had to say about Israel's destruction to an audience of students. |