Oxford Outrage
Jewish Week, The, July, 2003 by Greenberg, Eric J.
Greenberg, Eric J. The Jewish Week 07-04-2003 Israeli graduate student Amit Duvshani wanted to finish his master's degree in molecular biology by working in the lab of a respected scientist. So the 26-year-old Tel Aviv University student recently applied to Andrew Wilkie, the Nuffield professor of pathology at London's Oxford University. Last week, Wilkie turned him down. Not because of Duvshani's resume or character. But because he is an Israeli. "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," Wilkie wrote Duvshani in a June 23 e-mail. "I am sure...
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