Skip to main content

Bundestag capitulates and condemns Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign as antisemitic.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-bds-antisemitic-israel-palestine-nazi-campaign-a8919536.html

Germany condemns BDS movement as antisemitic

Related image

Complete garbage from the German government. It now seems that the Bundestag has capitulated to the growing pressures from other quarters that anything remotely critical of Israel and its government is automatically antisemitic and must be condemned or even outlawed. In this case, the BDS Campaign (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) has been singled out because, "The argumentation patterns and methods used by the BDS movement are anti-Semitic". Complete nonsense which in no way reflects the BDS campaign or its objectives. Everyone including the Germans should recognise and remember, that it was campaigns such as BDS which was instrumental in bringing down the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Without boycott campaigns the evils of unjust and oppressive regimes would be free to continue their excesses against sections of their own society, without fear of criticism or protest.
Related image


The Afrikaner government introduced legislation which any civilised people would find repulsive and quite rightly, was challenged by individuals and organisations around the world. The BDS campaign is but the latest movement to challenge a political system which is oppressive against parts of is population and should therefore be supported not stigmatised with the cliched coverall label of antisemitic.I do not accept that criticism of the Israeli government or support for the BDS campaign is antisemitic.In the same way that I supported the AA movement, I support and shall continue to support BDS no matter what he Germans or anyone else may think or say and I make no apology to anybody.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe...
Post a Comment
Read more

The writing on the wall

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-government-zero-hour-contract-ban-latest-a9257281.html?fbclid=IwAR0OW6qhoVnO9MVH-E9ruKFLnL_V3NQ5PMpYEkGGHEXskJxkAsrr2UJjRIs Two-thirds of voters want  Boris Johnson ‘s government to ban zero-hours contracts, a poll has found. There will be many people over the coming months and years who will tell the "pollsters" that something should be done about the homeless, or the costs of electric, gas and water, or about the costs of public transport, or the failing (and privatised) NHS, or the excessive profits and tax avoidance of large corporations. etc. To all those I say, that if you did not vote Labour then you have only yourselves to blame and you must bear the consequences of your actions. Johnson a nd his sycophant cronies have been given a blank cheque to do as they please and sell off vast portions of the British economy to the Americans, (the takeover of British defence giant Cobham by a US private equi...
Post a Comment
Read more

Greed and envy are good says Boris Johnson.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/embrace-culture-of-greed-says-boris-johnson-8968276.html Embrace culture of greed, says Boris Johnson Boris Johnson.  "I stress – I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity." Johnson delivering the annual Margaret Thatcher lecture at the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank, Wednesday 27th November 2013 Boris Johnson seeks to emulate Thatcher. He appeals to the evil side of the "nasty" party, for a society where greed is good, where selfishness is encouraged, where division amongst people by envy and status is championed as a proper objective and where the excesses of business and government are regarded as appropriate and right for the advancement of the few at the expense of the many. Johnson is an evil man with evil intent...
Post a Comment
Read more