The British are Coming. And They Still Want to Boycott Israeli Academics

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
May 30, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/301/british-boycott-israeli-academics

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The British are coming, the British are coming and if I could, so to speak, toss their tea into Boston (or Haifa) Harbor and ignite a revolutionary movement away from their poisonous influence, I would do so in a flash. Why are we ex-colonials still so enamored of the Mother Country? Americans love, love, love all the romantic movies about Queen Elizabeth, Virginia Woolf, and Jane Austen and we love Merchant-Ivory's classy British celluloid countryside. Interestingly, the writer on their team, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, is a Jew from Czechoslavakia who escaped Hitler, grew up in England, married a Parsi, then lived in India for 20-30 years before moving to New York City. The vision of a stately, settled England attracts all those whom history has unsettled. And oh how we admire England's savage, bracing wit and perhaps, how well the English language sounds when spoken with a British accent.

Enough already!

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