Arjay,
President Obama is committing treason against the USA.
The Muslim Brotherhood has declared it will destroy America - Mission statement 1991.
Obama has appointed MB people as advisors.
Obama has donated billions to the MB who openly call for the destruction of the USA.
Obama hates the west, he hates freedom, he hates Christianity and loves Islam, the religion of Satan.
Hence he should be impeached and tried for high treason.

Demonisation is comparing Israelis to Nazis or to apartheid South Africa. Neither comparison could be further from the truth. Nazis murdered over 40,000 Jews per day in industrial killing factories FOR YEARS. Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza have had improved health and living standards and population growth since Israel was re-established. How do they compare? In Israel, the Parliament, the High Court and all the sciences and arts have full representation by Arab members, judges and celebrities. How does that compare with South Africa?

De-legitimisation is campaigning to destroy the only Jewish nation on earth. Why should over 180 nation states exist on earth, and why should the "Palestinian" people who have NEVER had sovereignty on a single square centimetre of earth be allowed self determination (and I don't argue that they shouldn't) while at the same time suggesting that the Jews have no right to self determination in their ancient homeland, which was a Jewish nation for 1500 years before they were expelled by force?

Double standards is IGNORING the fact that Muslims have killed 12-14million other Muslims in wars since 1950, and that Syria has killed over 60,000 of its own citizens in recent months, while haranguing, camapaigning and trying to foment hysteria about Israel's "crimes" ...it's just plain bigotry ...fuelled by irrational hatred, not "social activism"...

Let’s cut to the chase: the BDS is little more than a nefarious cultural and economic pogrom against the Jewish people. And only the Jewish people.

On the matter of effecting change, I don’t see the BDS menagerie demonstrating against France’s current military expansionism in north Africa. Nor do I see the BDS brownshirts marching in favour of human rights in Iran.

Stuart Rees mentions the “occupation” of Palestinian land. I’m keen to know what he has to say about the occupation of Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and California?

Stuart Rees’ (and others’) support for the BDS demonstrates that they side with the Jihadist narrative to explain the woes of the Middle East.

When even long in the tooth and dogged Israel bashers like MIT’s Prof Chomsky row away at lightening speed from the BDS vortex and all that its hypocrisy stands for (see http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=14348) it’s plain as day that only the truly bitter and very bigoted barnacles are left behind.

Geoff Q and other pro Israel blinkered people.The Neoncons in Israel and the West are war mongering criminals.The invasions of Afghanistan Iraq,Somalia,Pakistan Lybia etc are all illegal.Iran has attacked no one for many decades yet Israel wants to attack it for reasons of Imperialistic greed.

I don't see a bright future with Israel being so aggressive.They will attack Iran and try and force the USA to defend them.Had Romney become President we'd be all in serious war right now with the real possibility of war with Russia and China.

Hopefully Obama will stop the march to WW3.

The call by CPACS for a boycott of contacts with Israeli universities is morally and politically repugnant. It is akin to calling for a boycott of the University of Sydney because of an objection to the foreign or domestic policies of the Australian Government. The Hebrew University is rated among the top two hundred in the world and, like other Israeli universities, has produced a number of Nobel laureates. It is located in an area that has been part of Israel since 1948, not in the Territories. Unlike government-controlled universities in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and China, with which the University of Sydney also has ties, Israeli universities operate independently of the government.
If Rees wants to posture about academic courage let's see CPACS boycott Chinese Universities which are complicit in Chinese policies in Tibet. Unlike the Palestinians vis-a-vis Israel, the Tibetans have never threatened China's very existence or fired rockets deliberately aimed at Chinese civilians or deliberately blown Chinese civilians to bits in shops and buses. There is something sinister, and nothing courageous, about the obsessive singling out of Israel.
CPACS never seem to have invited speakers who are internationally-renowned defenders of Israel’s legal position and who have visited Australia. Alan Dershowitz and Irwin Cotler are but two examples. Each of them could provide well thought through contrary views. Perhaps that is why they have not been invited. Like an echo-chamber, CPACS’ staff keep repeating the same shop-worn anti-Israel slogans, deluding themselves into believing that the uniform opinions within their tiny group have the status of eternal truths. I can think of several apt descriptions of what they do, and the way they do it. ‘Genuine scholarship’ is not one of them.

Just reading some of the comments in response to this article is frightening indeed. "Israel should be neutralised" is one which sums up all the rest of the hostility being expressed. And if Israel were neutralised, what form would that take exactly? Genocide? How does that make the situation any better - annihilate one group for the sake of another? And who becomes the underdog then? Perhaps the bleeding hearts of the world might swap sides if that were to happen .. but then again, probably not, because they're only Jews aren't they? And Jews are the cause of all evil in the world .. aren't they.