Just to give you some background on the issue - There is currently an aggressive campaign by certain pro-Palestinian groups to boycott Israel. The campaigners are well organized and they will probably continue to send messages to this mailing list. The campaign is political, however it is not supported by any government, nor is it supported by the Palestinian Authority or any of the moderate Palestinian organizations. After about four years of growing cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians (despite the remaining disagreements, which are hard to resolve), there are people and organizations who try to pour fuel on the extinguishing fire. Unfortunately, they do not respect this forum and its participants. I would also like to note that when Alexandria was rightfully chosen to host Wikimania (and its team did a wonderful work), there were Israelis among the bid team and the sponsors. The question of the Arab-Israeli conflict was never raised and it was deemed totally irrelevant. When Wikimania was held in Taiwan, I personally called the Taiwanese representations in Tel Aviv and Amman to check if they can issue a visa to an Egyptian citizen who wanted to participate and had difficulties as there was no Taiwanese representation in Egypt. I hope this is the last message in this subject. Dror K -----Original Message----- From: wikimania-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 6:07 am Subject: Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 61, Issue 1 Send Wikimania-l mailing list submissions to wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimania-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimania-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimania-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Boycott Wikimania 2011 (Evangeline Han) 2. Re: Boycott Wikimania 2011 (Anonyme) 3. Re: Israel = apartheid (Anonyme) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 09:03:37 +0700 From: Evangeline Han <evanbejin(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Boycott Wikimania 2011 To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <AANLkTimskah+3u8LKmdH_VtjfqGa5Fb6ArhH8vVwCboo(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hey guys, Just a thought. If you want to boycott Wikimania, there is no need to announce it on the list. We're not interested if you've already made up your mind to boycott. It's pretty immature to boycott and then announce it to everyone... unless you're canvassing...? --Evangeline On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Alejandro Farah <farah(a)astro.unam.mx> wrote: in