Re: [tied] Indo-European Origins: The Anthropological Evidence

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 14665
Date: 2002-08-28

It's bloody nonsense, if you ask me. If the West had boycotted Polish universities during the Cold War, we would probably still be ruled by Communists. Let's leave politics to political activists. Why should we punish Israeli scholars and students for whatever their government is doing? Roger Lass once told me how a campaign was started to remove him from the editorial board of a linguistic journal when he decided to move to South Africa (to work at a non-racial university, though still during Apartheid); the editor fortunately -- and wisely -- ignored the pressure. Insulate a regime from external influences, and you'll only delay its natural death.
 
Piotr 
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Harald Hammarstrom
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Indo-European Origins: The Anthropological Evidence

> My own opinion is that politics and science are different domains and should be
> kept apart.

In its extreme, this is a very strong statement. What do cybalisters for
instance think of the proposed academic boycott of Israel (initiated by
linguists (?)), that of South Africa some time ago?