Your Masters / Monsters like these squash your freedom of the press you 'journal-nihilistic idiots'....
Posted on 04/14/2007 9:21:58 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
Britian's National Union of Journalists has voted at its annual meeting for a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a protest against the Second Lebanon War, the British daily Guardian reported on its Web site Friday evening.
The vote was carried 66 to 54 - a result that met with mixed responses from the NJU delegates present.
The motion came during a series of motions on international affairs and read: "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 in February and was opposed by the Cumberland branch, which said it was too political and was not closely enough related 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.
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 continued attacks inside Lebanon" following what the motion defined Israel's "defeat" by Hizbullah.
The motion called for the "end of Israeli aggression in Gaza" and other territories inhabited by Palestinians. The Yorkshire branch of the NJU neglected to mention in its motion either the fact that Israel was keeping a ceasefire with the Palestinian Authority, despite the fact that southern towns in Israel were, and still are, sporadically fired upon with Kassam rockets.
Also absent from the motion was any mention of the hundreds of civilians bombarded with projectile rockets for over a month in the summer of 2006.
Israel's casus bell - the kidnapping of IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in a cross-border raid on July 12, was also missing from the motion. Six other reserve soldiers were killed in Hizbullah's carefully-orchestrated attack, which started the war.
Israel unilaterally withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 when MK Ehud Barak was prime minister. At the time, IDF forces were forced to withdraw under heavy Hizbullah fire.
Julius Streicher, follow his path, share his fate.
Muzzie-loving, Communazi Dhimmis./end of rant
Those journalists should check up how much of communication technology is of Israeli origin. They will be condemned to write with pencil and paper.
Journalists don’t even pretend to be “unbiased” and objective anymore.
This is disgusting.
The cowardly little anti-semites in the former Great Britain are at it again. What’s that new newspaper they’ve got, Der Stuermer? Hope they love their new Iranian masters!
But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to."
Humbert Wolfe
It's my opinion that Mr. Wolfe was wrong about the first part and we need to take a very close at the financial dealings and "freelance" activities of various British and American "journalists."
The leftist propaganda rag Mother Jones, for example, has a circulation of a little over 100,000 and could scarcely be much of an advertising venue, yet its pay rates are among the highest in the industry. (see Writer's Guide, 2007)
Was this a wimpy cave-in to Iran?
There’s not a lot I can do about this. I don’t think I’ve bought anything from Britain in a very long time. However, next time I have an auction on Ebay and receive a bid from anyone in the UK, I’ll cancel it and send them this article, entitled, “Why I don’t do Business with the UK”.
Instead they are tip toeing around their point like a bunch of pussies.
High tea without a potato knish?; That’s uncivilized.
Just like in Stalinist times...
Having escaped the UK in 1969 and settled to Texas, I have firm opinions about British cuisine. I believe that the great explorers, Raleigh, Drake, Hawkins, etc. prowled across the world, and set the stage for empire, simply because they were looking for something decent to eat.
Good one Tex. LOL!
I had a rather large business dealing with a Sunni from Beirut right after the Hizbullah-Isaraeli blowout. Business is business. These Brits, though, are winning a special place in my heart. At present I don’t think anti-Semitism has a better home in Europe than in England.
It seems to me that Isreal could take the position that members of this union are security risks.
Your Masters / Monsters like these squash your freedom of the press you 'journal-nihilistic idiots'....
I’m shocked!
The Arabist BBC only surpassed by the most anti-Israel (and anti-semitic) daily in the Western World- Guardian, etc.
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