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...deadline, agricultural interests and drug companies from the wealthy world show no signs of retreating. But if the WTO fails to make real progress soon, they may lose a more important war. Bring 'em All Back Home The current diplomatic flap over Iraq may be sparking American threats to boycott French companies, but one French organization hopes to siphon off some of the steam. Provence Promotion - an association that recruits new businesses to the Marseilles area - is trying to lure successful expats back from America. Since September, the Home Sweet Home program has contacted over 5,500 French entrepreneurs...
...strong reactions of both Kennedy and Greenblatt to the boycotts are heartening, and show that most academics still have a sense of proportion when it comes to the proper reasons for an academic boycott...
...essay in Nature, titled “Is a scientific boycott ever justified?” the authors set out four conditions that must be satisfied before a scientific boycott can be permissable. Among the requirements are nearly-universal agreement on the need for action against a regime, a clear view of what actions could be prevented by such a boycott, and an explicit acknowledgement that a boycott would be an abandonment of one of the most cherished principles of science, its universality...
During a question and answer session at Harvard Hillel last Friday night, University President Lawrence H. Summers called the idea of an academic boycott against Israel an “absolute outrage.”Although Summers and other academic leaders have been outspoken in their condemnation of the anti-Semitic double standard applied to Israel, there is still some support for action to punish the Jewish state...
...boycotts of Israeli academics fulfill none of the goals laid out by the authors of the recent Nature essay. Indeed, the sharp disagreement on the war against terrorism that Israel is fighting belies the ulterior motives of those who wish to take the most extreme measures against it. Having been burned in the past by submitting to political pressures, most scientists see the recent boycott campaigns for what they are: crude anti-Semitic double standards that will only hurt scientific inquiry and academic freedom...