Boycott briefs
Dead man talking: Sari Nusseibeh says he is against any boycott of Israeli academics. Not because it’s the wrong thing to do. Because Israeli academics are mostly lefties. Typical palestinian reasoning. Suicide bombings “hurt the palestinian cause” is the other thing we hear from most palestinians who “condem” suicide bombings. So. How long before this guy gets shot for going against the palestinian status quo? Or did he really go against it?
CUPE goes to court: Jewish members of CUPE are protesting the union’s anti-Israel actions, as well as making a Federal case out of it. And oh yeah—Jewish members of CUPE are pulling out of the union. And picketing CUPE’s offices. Gee, couldn’t see that coming. But hey, CUPE’s leadership’s conscience is clear: Bad, bad Israel got spanked.
Speaking of boycotts and divestment, I haven’t devoted much time to the PC(USA) debate on divestment, but Solly has. Here, here, here, and here.
June 18th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Saw the title of this post and thought you had decided to go commando on us. No more underwear, no more underwear!
June 18th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
About time the Canadian Jewish community spoke up.
Its time to fight back folks, I cancelled my subscription to the Minneapolis rag sh**t the “Star and Tribune” last year because they could not bear to call Arab homicide bombers that attacked Israel civilians by their rightful name, terrorists, yet had no problem calling the Arab London bombers terrorists. I also left the democratic party because of the left wing PC crap that they spouted against Israel. I love their reaction to my response when I am called on to donate funds.
Enough is enough, we Jews need to support organizations that we believe in, and boycott the SOB’s that undermine us. The anti-semites already think we have power, lets prove it to them!
June 20th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Push-me/Pull-you at CUPE…
Meryl has several links noting some push-back on the part of Jewish groups and individuals (why only Jewish?) against the Ontario branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees for their stance calling for a boycott of Israel. Don’t worry……