Comments on: Israel boycott con? http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/29/3064 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:21:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/29/3064/comment-page-1#comment-25947 Alex Bensky Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:32:03 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/29/3064#comment-25947 A British journalists' union, whose webpage calls for freedom of the press, supports the closed media of the Palestinians as opposed to Israel's raucously open press. Academics who loudly proclaim their adherence to feminist principles excoriate Israel and work hand in hand with Arabs whose culture approves of honor killings. Intellectuals who oppose capital punishment and react to executions in the U.S. with tearful indignation call for divesting from Israel--which has executed one person and that in highly unusual circumstances--and blithely ignore investments in Arab countires which execute people frequently, not to mention that they also announce solidarity with the Palestinians who frequently execute people...sometimes with an hour or two of due process, sometimes not. At this point, at least, can we stop taking the line that these are sincere people and these are issues on which people of goodwill can disagree in this manner? A British journalists’ union, whose webpage calls for freedom of the press, supports the closed media of the Palestinians as opposed to Israel’s raucously open press.

Academics who loudly proclaim their adherence to feminist principles excoriate Israel and work hand in hand with Arabs whose culture approves of honor killings.

Intellectuals who oppose capital punishment and react to executions in the U.S. with tearful indignation call for divesting from Israel–which has executed one person and that in highly unusual circumstances–and blithely ignore investments in Arab countires which execute people frequently, not to mention that they also announce solidarity with the Palestinians who frequently execute people…sometimes with an hour or two of due process, sometimes not.

At this point, at least, can we stop taking the line that these are sincere people and these are issues on which people of goodwill can disagree in this manner?

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