[news] The Bigot and the Boycott

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When I read **Steven Weinberg's** assertion that those supporting a boycott of Israel suffer from a "moral blindness" that could only be explained by anti-Semitism, I wondered how he squared that claim to the moral high ground with a comment he once made to me that smacked of anti-Palestinian bigotry...[H]e said to me, with what I took to be a condescending smirk, "Don't romanticize Palestinians just because they are _primitive_"...I had a hard time believing that a Nobel Prize winner would...say something so ugly.

  


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