Spain Excludes Israeli Scientists

I see this as a loss for Spain given that Israeli scientists are among the best in the world. So fuck Spain, another anti-Semitic country using bullshit allegations against Israel as a pretext to shut it out of international events like this. By pretending they are motivated by Israel's behavior gives countries a cover for their real motivation for boycotting Israel, which is pure Jew hatred and nothing else. How else to explain why the worst violators of human rights on earth are never boycotted nor are there calls made for them to be boycotted? So long as Israel continues to be singled out for boycotts, divestments and repudiation, no other conclusion can be made.

Wiesenthal Centre to OSCE/ ODIHR Warsaw Meeting: "Condemn Spain for
Exclusion of Israeli Scientists, in Violation of Its Commitments to OSCE"

Paris, 7 October 2009


In a letter to Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
(ODIHR, an office of the OSCE) Director, Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, the
Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations, Dr
Shimon Samuels, called attention to "Spain's contravention of its
commitments as a State Party of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe."

Samuels pointed to the announcement by Spanish Housing Minister, Beatriz
Corredor, excluding the Ariel University scientific team from the Solar
Decathlon Europe competition, as "constituting:
- political discrimination against free academic discourse;
- impugning of the professional reputation, and potentially damages the
career advancement, of those disinvited;
- denial, especially to impoverished sectors, vital knowledge for the
use of free solar-powered housing."

The letter continued, "In a country where polls indicate a high increase
in media-inspired antisemitic expression, this decision by the Spanish
authorities certainly violates the OSCE Berlin Declaration on
Antisemitism of 29 April 2004, and the European Union Fundamental Rights
Agency Working Definition of Antisemitism, disseminated in March 2004 on
the grounds of incitement to hatred"

Samuels added, "The Spanish action, moreover, is collective punishment
of both the Jewish and Arab students of the targeted Israeli university."

The Centre urged "ODIHR's condemnation of Spain for its discriminatory
behaviour."