Either turn every academic conference into a geopolitical soapbox or just host it where the engineers are and leave it at that.
Either turn every academic conference into a geopolitical soapbox or just host it where the engineers are and leave it at that.
> I'd personally volunteer to give the same talk twice for both audiences.
And you've drawn a lot of false equivelancies, leaving aside that its completely unrelated to this topic.
The article is about the interpretation of Anti-semetism.. Not litterally where the conference should be held.
But seems you haven't read it.
Don't bring geopolitics into everything. That way lies madness.
A general ban on hosting conferences in geopolitically sensitive hotspots that covered Israel would be the non-hypocritical way to achieve this aim, supposing it is the true aim.
However, hosting a conference in Israel is inviting political posturing. Message censorship is political posturing. Using anti-semitism to censor non-anti-semitism is political posturing (and, usually, a form of anti-arab racism itself).