The delegitimization of Israel in Britain pushes on, led by the labor unions that seem to think only Israel, of all the nations of the world, deserves to be singled out and boycotted for its policies. Not Sudan. Not Iran. Not North Korea. Not China, which uses slave laborers. Not the Asian countries that ply the child sex trade. No, only Israel, for its treatment of the Palestinians.
As a result, Israel’s largest trade union is cutting all ties with the British union that is boycotting Israel. And let me take a moment here to remind you that Israel was founded on socialism and run by labor unions, which still bear enormous clout in Israel. Not that facts should get in the way of making a political statement.
What, exactly, could be the cause of this boycott? Can it be yet another honest attempt by people to make their voices heard?
Naaaaah.
Doreen Gerson, executive vice chairwoman of Trade Union Friends of Israel, said: “The vote was extremely rushed, as time had run over and there was not enough time for discussion, and the many delegates who wanted to speak against the motion were denied the opportunity.”
Ahead of the vote, Eric McDonald, secretary of TGWU’s Birmingham branch, which proposed the boycott motion, compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
The pattern is exactly the same as it was in the vote by the British teacher’s union last year. Rush the vote through, don’t allow members to discuss it, and refuse speaking time to its opponents. The Palestinian propaganda machine marches on. Dig deeply enough on every British boycott vote, and you will find the same group of Palestinians working the strings, behind the scenes, pushing votes through exactly like this one. It doesn’t matter that some votes have been overruled later. The damage is being done, and Israel is being delegitimized by inches. The inches add up, and if this trend is not reversed, you will begin to see more binding resolutions, more groups, and more countries calling for an end not to Israel’s policies, but to Israel itself.
This is why survivors of the Holocaust are saying it’s 1938 all over again. That’s the similarity to Nazi Germany, McDonald. You have it exactly backward. It is the Palestinians who are using the Nazi-like tactics, from the propaganda, to the demonization of Jews, to the destruction of any and all who would support Israel. They learned at the feet of their Soviet masters in the 1970s, and have perfected the routine ever since. And as always, there are many in the West who fall for it utterly.
I suppose the only good news about this is that the average person doesn’t even know the British unions are doing this.
Yet.
Perhaps someone should remind Eric McDonald that it is Britain that introduced the concentration camp to the world, as well as the check point to the
Yishuv.
Actually, the attempted boycott is liable to isolate the British “academic” institutions. Many universities throughout the world have declared theat they will consider themselves “Israeli” as far as this boycott is concerned. There is a petition being circulated by Alan Dershowitz and signed by many Nobel laureates and University presidents.
Also, this shows that the boycott has failed and the antisemites are trying to save face.
I have blogged about this, too. England has become the main European front in the battle for Israel’s existence, and so far, the reports from the front are not positive………..
BHG