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Yoad Winter is a Linguistics and Mathematics expert who works with computers, formerly from the Technion in Israel, now employed as an academic lecturer at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. I have elsewhere commented on the Linguistics department at Tel Aviv University and how Israeli linguists denounce and vilify Israel. Some of the anti-Israel crowd in the field of linguistics were and are groupies of the notorious neo-Stalinist Linguistic “guru” and anti-Semite Noam Chomsky. The late Tanya Reinhart, another well-known anti-Israel basher, was a disciple of Chomsky. Apparently Yoad Winter himself is a disciple of Reinhart, following in her footsteps after having studied under her.

Winter specializes in what could be called Boolean semantics, combining language with mathematical computational models to study the form and interpretation of language. The computing dictionary describes “Boolean” as “The type of an expression with two possible values, "true" and "false, as a variable of Boolean type or a function with Boolean arguments or result. The most common Boolean functions are AND, OR and NOT.”

Logic is an important part of Boolean algebra, used by Winter in his computational models about language. Again, the computing dictionary defines this logic as a “deductive logical system, usually applied to classes, in which, under the operations of intersection and symmetric difference, classes are treated as algebraic quantities.”

But when it comes to true or false values regarding Israel’s right to exist or defend itself from the Arab and Muslim fascists seeking to destroy the Jewish state, truth and falsehood seem irrelevant to Winter.

Yoad Winter, now in the comfort and safety of the Netherlands, castigates Israel for defending itself from Arab terrorism and threats of annihilation. Simply put, it’s all Israel’s fault, no ANDs, ORs or NOTs about it.

Yoad Winter belongs to a growing crowd of anti-Israel Israelis living outside Israel, and is part of a group called Gate48 in Amsterdam. During the war in Gaza he and his fellow Israeli academics and fellow travelers in Gate48 wrote the following to the Dutch government:

“We, a group of Israelis living in the Netherlands, call on you to publicly disapprove of the brutal military operation claiming the life of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. We urge you to intervene in this conflict by sending a message to the Israeli government, which denounces the attacks on Gaza, and insists on an immediate ceasefire. We are following the reports from Gaza with anger, shame and frustration at the inability of the international community to stop the violence. Since the beginning of this operation approximately 700 people, among them more than 200 children were killed. 700,000 Palestinians are living without water and nearly a million without electricity. Israel blocks the delivery of sufficient humanitarian aid, which has resulted in starvation, and a lack of proper medical assistance. We cannot find any justification for such war crimes against civilians.”

The bulk of the “700 people killed” (ultimately 1,300 claimed by the UN by war’s end) were proven to have been armed terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who used the civilian population (including children) on many occasions as human shields.

In addition, obviously 700,000 Arabs were not living without water, nor one million without electricity. Israel did not block delivery of humanitarian aid and the population in Gaza is and never has been starving. Those are the inventions of the International