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...most likely explanation for the vote in Paris and the continued calls to single out Israeli scientists is old-fashioned anti-Semitism. The calls for boycott attack the most basic principles of open academic exchange cannot be explained by Israel’s poor treatment of Palestinians...
...cricket ground. "We might spread a rumor that there's going to be free food," says one local wag. "Then we'll have the whole town there." Six World Cup matches are slated for Zimbabwe, but the British government (unlike its cricket officials) has led calls for a boycott of its imploding ex-colony. Zimbabwe has already lost its reputation as southern Africa's breadbasket, its once-vaunted economic potential, its veneer of democracy. For years, the rains haven't been good; neither has the government. But Zimbabweans haven't lost their humor or common sense. Ask about cricket...
...easy to dismiss Ebon Y. Lee’s recent column, a call to “Boycott South Korea” (Column, Jan. 17), as an embarrassingly uninformed and needlessly inflammatory reaction to allegations of anti-Americanism in South Korea. But the fact that such allegations are coming from mainstream U.S. media is worrying. The recent candlelight vigils in Seoul for the two teenage girls accidentally killed by U.S. armored vehicles are interpreted as proof that the South Korean population is anti-American. Sure, the protests have allowed some South Koreans to vent anti-American feelings left over from...
...know of a better idea. American soldiers coming back from abusive tours of duty in South Korea have begun a campaign to boycott South Korean goods. Unlike North Korea, the South is vulnerable to economic pressure, since trade accounts for most of the national economy and the United States is its largest trading partner. A boycott of South Korean goods holds several advantages over troop withdrawals. It’s unofficial, it’s easily reversible and it makes a symbolic point without compromising real security...
Hopefully a boycott will serve as a reminder that nearly everything South Korea has accomplished since it began to claw its way out of some of the world’s worst poverty five decades ago—prosperity, democracy, membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, even a spunky World Cup soccer team—it owes in large part to the United States. Hopefully it will remind them that if they regret these developments, they need only look to their starving brethren in the North...