Following up the boycott initiative.
Here is another article published in the EN Haaretz about the boycott issue. The writer’s position is pretty known in advance (just try googling his name), but, once again, the article proves that reading the comments is one of the more interesting things :)
Also I took a quick look at other Israeli sources covering the boycott issue. There was only one article in HE Ynet and what seems like a simple translation of it in the EN version. Interesting that the title is “Academics resist boycott of Israeli universities”, which is quite different from what Haaretz had (but to be honest, Haaretz dedicated much more attention to the issue – is it a question of how each one see its audience?).
Jerusalem post also had some coverage of the issue. Looking at the comments you cannot stop wondering what a different crowd reads the different papers (ironically, there was someone named Mike Epstein among the commenters :) Apparently the boycott was already supported by Canadian Union of Public Employees. It is a pity though the JP takes money for the archived content, for it’d be interesting to see what they wrote in the previous articles on the topic (apparently they too covered it for some time already).
I couldn’t find anything on the topic in NRG (Maariv), who has on of the most user-not-friendly websites I ever saw… also I don’t think they have an EN version too.
But the most fascinating things happens of course in the blogsphere. I searched for a string “academic boycott Israel” and got 1,079 results in English with any authority. Although there are not that many blogs dealing with the issue (look at this chart) the topic has been discussed pretty much constantly through out the year (at least one post a day I think) with some peaks (one really distinct was at the end of December last year – I wonder why was that?). However, I couldn’t find anything too fascinating there. Just the standard reference to mainstream media publications.
Also I took a quick look at other Israeli sources covering the boycott issue. There was only one article in HE Ynet and what seems like a simple translation of it in the EN version. Interesting that the title is “Academics resist boycott of Israeli universities”, which is quite different from what Haaretz had (but to be honest, Haaretz dedicated much more attention to the issue – is it a question of how each one see its audience?).
Jerusalem post also had some coverage of the issue. Looking at the comments you cannot stop wondering what a different crowd reads the different papers (ironically, there was someone named Mike Epstein among the commenters :) Apparently the boycott was already supported by Canadian Union of Public Employees. It is a pity though the JP takes money for the archived content, for it’d be interesting to see what they wrote in the previous articles on the topic (apparently they too covered it for some time already).
I couldn’t find anything on the topic in NRG (Maariv), who has on of the most user-not-friendly websites I ever saw… also I don’t think they have an EN version too.
But the most fascinating things happens of course in the blogsphere. I searched for a string “academic boycott Israel” and got 1,079 results in English with any authority. Although there are not that many blogs dealing with the issue (look at this chart) the topic has been discussed pretty much constantly through out the year (at least one post a day I think) with some peaks (one really distinct was at the end of December last year – I wonder why was that?). However, I couldn’t find anything too fascinating there. Just the standard reference to mainstream media publications.
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