> > > Hello
> > > I tried to apply for a PhD position and got this
> > amazing response from
> > > an Oxford professor!
>
>
>
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Andrew Wilkie"
> > <awilkie@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk
> > > To: "Amit Duvshani" <duvshani@post.tau.ac.il
> > > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:58 AM
> > > Subject: Re: PhD application
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear Amit Duvshani,
> > >
> > > Thank you for contacting me, but I don't think
> > this would work. 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
> > the (the Palestinians)
> > > wish to live in their own country.
> > >
> > > I am sure that you are perfectly nice at a
> > personal level, but no way
> > > would
> > > I take on somebody who had served in the
> > Israeli army. As you may be
> > > aware,
> > > I am not the only UK scientist with these views
> > but I'm sure you will
> > > find
> > > another suitable lab if you look around.
> > >
> > > Yours sincerely
> > >
> > > Andrew Wilkie
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Nuffield Professor of Pathology,
> > > Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine,
> > > The John Radcliffe,
> > > Headington,
> > > Oxford OX3 9DS,
> > > UK.
> > >
> > > Tel (44)-1865-222619
> > > Fax (44)-1865-222500
> > >
> >
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