Love the Euro-trash:
Oxford University is investigating whether a university geneticist, Andrew Wilkie, violated its anti-discrimination rules by rejecting an Israeli student’s application to work in his laboratory on the basis of the student’s nationality, citing disapproval of Israeli policies toward Palestinians.
In a brief message last week rejecting the application from the Israeli student, Amit Duvshani, Wilkie wrote: “I have a huge problem with the way that the Israelis take the moral high ground from their appalling treatment in the Holocaust, and then inflict gross human rights abuses on the Palestinians because they (the Palestinians) wish to live in their own country. I am sure that you are perfectly nice at a personal level, but no way would I take on somebody who had served in the Israeli army. As you may be aware, I am not the only U.K. scientist with these views but I’m sure you will find another suitable lab if you look around.”
I am not sure what they are investigating- they guy has admitted that he did it. Are they investigating whether or not this is discrimination? Just insert the word ‘blacks’ every time you see the word Israelis. Shouldn’t we be in the punitive stages now?
Jonas
Is this different than school districts here in the US terminating foreign exchange student programs with French schools?
The Lonewacko Blog
“Just insert the word ‘blacks’ every time you see the word Israelis”
To be perfectly fair to the guy, a better line would be “Just insert the word [Liberia, Zimbabwe, etc.] every time you see the word [Israel]”
Dean
Yeah, Jonas.
Look at it this way, would you compare cancelling foreign exchange programs w/ apartheid? Or “No Irish or Dogs allowed?”
A professor refuses to even consider someone based on their ethnicity for a hiring decision.
That’s EXACTLY like deciding to end an exchange program. Ya know, I’ll bet that Bull Connor and Francois L’Etudent are JUST alike.
Jonas
The reason the student wasn’t accepted wasn’t based on ethnicity, it was based on country of origin. Just like foreign exchange programs.