Okay, this is funny
I’d forgotten that I can be very, very funny sometimes.
I need to get back into this habit.
Don’t think this will go anywhere in the JIBs, though. I didn’t see a category for cats.
The JIB Awards
If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.
Okay, I’m probably withdrawing my blog nomination, but that doesn’t mean you all shouldn’t check out the Jewish & Israeli Blog Awards. Omri was nominated, and he’s so excited he may just plotz. Or something.
The thing I really like about this year’s voting is that it’s one vote, once, per round. Woo-hoo! Finally got rid of that stupid vote-once-per-day rule.
No, wait. I thought of a category I’d stay in: Best Jewish Blogger from Richmond. Sarah doesn’t live in Richmond, so I wouldn’t be running against her.
Update: Actually, I found a category I’d like. Find a post of mine that you think is worth nominating for Best Post. It has to be between April 13, 2006 and April 2, 2007.
British journalists stop even trying to pretend they’re impartial
The British National Union of Journalists has voted to boycott Israeli goods.
The National Union of Journalists has voted at its annual meeting for a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a protest against last year’s war in Lebanon.
Today’s vote was carried 66 to 54 - a result that met with gasps and a small amount of applause from the union delegates present.
The vote came during a series of motions on international affairs and reads: “This ADM [annual delegate meeting] calls for a boycott of Israeli goods similar to those boycotts in the struggles against apartheid South Africa led by trade unions and the TUC [Trades Union Congress] to demand sanctions be imposed on Israel by the British government and the United Nations.”
The motion was originally brought by the union’s South Yorkshire branch and opposed by the Cumberland branch, which said it was too political and was not tied closely enough to journalistic matters.
After a show of hands twice failed to give a clear result, union scrutineers were called in and the doors to the conference room closed.
The vote on the motion was taken after it was split from a larger motion that condemned the “savage, pre-planned attack on Lebanon by Israel” last year.
Yep. The BBC fights in court to stop the release of a report that proves their anti-Israel bias, and the British journalists’ union votes to condemn Israel for the Lebanon war, and yet, I’m betting you will never see a word referring to the numerous suicide attacks against Israeli civilians.
This motion, known as Composite B in Order Paper 4, was carried by a large majority and also condemned the “slaughter of civilians by Israeli troops in Gaza and the IDF’s [Israeli Defense Forces] continued attacks inside Lebanon following the defeat of its army by Hezbollah”.
The motion called for the end of Israeli aggression in Gaza and other occupied territories.
The union’s national executive committee has been instructed to support organisations including the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, Jews for Justice in Palestine and the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding.
That’s what we like to see. Journalists acting with impartiality. So, let’s stop pretending that the British newspapers aren’t staffed with Israel-haters, shall we? Let’s stop pretending that the Brits like Jews.
No wonder British Jews want to leave the country. The atmosphere continues to be as poisonous as it was hundreds of years ago. In the meantime, let’s take a pop quiz: Who bombed the British subway stations and buses on 7/7?
Yeah. Right. Go after the Jews, and ignore the real problem in your land.
