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Your excellent cover article "Breathing
New Life" (May 31, page 31) talks
about healing stubborn wounds and
diabetic foot ulcers. In this age of ris-
ing health care costs, your readers
should know about a very cheap, low-
tech alternative: honey.
About 28 years ago when my first
child was born, my wife's obstetrician
heard that I was a beekeeper. He told
me that for the worst surgery that he
has to perform, which was for some
kind of cancer in the reproductive
organs, the only thing that would pre-
vent infection was honey. He said that
he would tell the patient to apply it to
the incision until it was healed.
A recent article in the Journal of
Family Practice Vol.54 No. 6 discusses
a man who, after $390,000 in hospital
treatment, was told his leg must be
amputated or he would die. He refused
the amputation and they treated his
leg with honey and saved the leg. The
full article can be found on the Web
site www.jfponline.com by searching
for "topical honey for diabetic foot
ulcers."
I am not qualified to give medical
advice; but I have found honey to be
an amazing and delicious product.
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A Bad Boycott
The recent vote for an academic boy-
cott of Israeli scholars and universities
by the University and College Union
in Great Britain is an affront to values
of academic freedom and to fairness
and non-discrimination toward Israeli
nationals. It is part of a larger effort
that has been proceeding for several
years to delegitimize Israel. It smacks
of one-sided pro-Palestinian bias in
considering actions to promote peace
in the Middle East.
Criticizing the one sector of Israeli
society that has done most to bridge
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Israeli-Palestinian differences and
barring Israeli academics from open
discourse and exchange is also hardly
a pragmatic plan for peace in the
Middle East.
But those British lecturers who sup-
ported this initiative are also not inter-
ested in helping make peace; they are
interested in one-sided moral stances
that misstate the realities of the situ-
ation. They are interested in tagging
Israeli institutions with pariah status.
These matters are in one sense,
small potatoes — a British boycott
of Israeli academics will not have
tremendous impacts. But in another
sense, they are of grave symbolic
importance to universities everywhere
and to Jewish Studies programs in
particular, especially those for which
study of Israel and relations with
Israeli academics and visits to and
study in Israel are important. There
are two centers of Jewish life in the
post-Holocaust world, North America
and Israel.
The British union calls on British
institutions to boycott all academ-
ics and academic institutions of the
Jewish state. It doesn't specify that
such institutions have done this or
that or failed to do this or that. It sim-
ply assumes they are pariahs, and calls
for ostracism.
Jewish Studies programs else-
where must have a position. Does
this include Yad Vashem, one of the
premier institutions for study of the
Holocaust? What about Israeli cen-
ters that lead the world in the study
of global anti-Semitism? The Jewish
Studies Program at Michigan State
University stands strongly against this
boycott and will act forthrightly on
behalf of principles of academic free-
dom and non-discrimination.
Ken Waltzer
Director, Jewish Studies
Michigan State University
East Lansing
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