Comments on: King’s students fight to revoke Peres’ honourary doctorate

By: mobile hoist hire

mobile hoist hire — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:41:46 +0000

Lol you’re kidding right

By: John Connolly

John Connolly — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:15:59 +0000

It does not seem to matter how dovish Peres is, as people like Rose want Israel wiped off the map (though they may not be stupid enough to declare it as the Iranians do). So the doves are to go along with the hawks purely because of their association with Israel, just as any shade of Jew got killed in Russian pogroms or Nazi gas chambers. People should wake up and realise these proposals reek of prejudice and hate.

By: Frank Adam

Frank Adam — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:35:12 +0000

Professors Machover and Stephen Rose can not but be aware that the promotion of anti-Israel campaigns of any sort spills over quickly into Antisemitic campaigns as we have all seen as much since at least 1973 when the USSR threw its weight behind such a move that quickly degenerated into open resurrection of Antisemitism in the USSR; and the promotion of anti-Zionism everywhere else.

Professor Rose might be able to maintain the distinction between whom he is anti; but the hockey-stick-zoom in police reports of blatant attacks on synagogues and Jews in headgear and frock coats these last two months shows that the chanting boneheads of the soccer terraces; the resentfully not so successful young men of all our deprived and not so deprived local government districts; and those feeling like, “kicking the cat,” can not make the difference.

When Professor Machover, Stephen Rose & his wife Prof Hilary, and namesake Prof Jaqueline, find themselves heckled or otherwise hoist on their own petard they should not be surprised.

By: Jonathan Hoffman

Jonathan Hoffman — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:16:07 +0000

http://www.stevenroseonline.net/SPRR/Welcome.html

And Steven Rose does not even include his email address on his Website so that people can protest at this antisemitism.

What a coward.

By: Brian Lux

Brian Lux — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:15:51 +0000

As a Guy’s graduate,now linked to King’s. I am apalled at the anti-Semitic attitude of these students. I do not remember sit-ins or demands for fundraising for the 300,000 killed in Darfur, nor the starvation and horrors in Zimbabwe. And before irate students and supportive staff answer, I ask them this one question to prove their actions are based on anti-Semitism. Q: When you castigate Israel do you also include the 20% Arab population, or are they left out of the equation?

By: Jonathan Hoffman

Jonathan Hoffman — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:06:45 +0000

You report Rose as saying “it’s equivalent to Nazi scientists advocating research on Jews during the holocaust.”

Israeli Universities – just like British, German, Russian, Chinese etc etc Universities – conduct some defence-related research. But the Nazis perpetrated genocide on Jews with the support of some scientists in German Universities. There is simply no point of comparison and Rose’s statement is antisemitic (see the EUMC Definition of antisemitism).

If a speaker at King’s College made racist statements about Muslims would you report them?

If not, why are racist statements against Jews any different?