Time for all - Jew and Non Jew alike to act!
Double Standard Watch: Bigoted British Boycott
Posted by Alan Dershowitz June 9, 2007
Dry Bones at http://gamla.org.il/english/dry/2007/april8.htm
The utter hypocrisy of the British National of Journalists, which recently voted to boycott only Israel, has now become evident in the face of the silence over the recent move by Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez to suppress dissent by the media in his leftist regime. General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan too has now imposed massive press censorship. In many other of the hard left’s favored countries – Cuba, China, Iran, North Korea and Zimbabwe – suppression of the press is routine and imprisonment of journalist is common.
But there is not a peep about these countries from the British National Union of Journalists who seem to admire tyranny and condemn democracy and openness. Only Israel, which has among the freest presses of the world, is being targeted for sanctions.
Even Arab and Muslim journalists have more freedom of the press in Israel than in any Arab or Muslim nation. While Palestinian terrorist groups murder, kidnap and threaten journalists, the British Union exempts the Palestinian authority, run by the censorious Hamas from its journalistic sanctions. The reason is obvious. The British Union cares less about journalists or freedom of the press than it does about blindly condemning the Jewish state.
The same can be said about the British University and College Union which has voted to move forward with the boycott against only Israeli academics. Israel has more academic freedom – for Jews and Muslims alike – than any Arab or Muslim nation and then the vast majority of countries in the world.
Israeli scientists have developed, on a per capita basis, more life-saving medical technologies than any nation in the world. Yet the British Union has singled out Israel alone for boycott. Again, this has nothing to do with protecting academic freedom or scientific inquiry. It has everything to do with anti-Israel bigotry.
Now academics around the world are fighting back against this British bigotry. Led by more than a dozen Nobel Prize winners, thousands of American academics have signed a petition declaring themselves to be honorary Israelis for purposes of any academic boycott. They have pledged to refuse to participate in any events from which Israeli academics are boycotted. Any academic who wishes to join this moral response to an immoral boycott can email 
ScholarsforPeace@aol.com.
One common theme running through antisemitic union policy designed to punish Israel/Jews is the lack of a balanced and truthful internal discussion concerning their grossly political Nazi-style antics. There is a complete lack of an educational process and in its place they have substituted coercion and brainwashing.
These unions share a common bond with dictatorial governments such as Saudi Arabia – and once a strategy has been decreed, the followers are given a steady diet of propaganda until anyone who dares to disagree with the prevailing views of the minority leadership is given a psychological dressing down and risks losing his/her hope for a future within the country/organization.
This is the antithesis of what unions were created to do. They were created to protect the safety and welfare of workers against arbitrary and unfair decisions which take advantage of individuals who cannot speak up for themselves. Now unions are speaking up for only the union leaders whose politics have become so distorted that they have become a mouthpiece for fascist regimes and Islamic terror organizations worldwide and to hell with freedom and equality for workers and citizens.
The people who these unions are meant to protect are being manipulated to support union leadership in the same way that leaders of Islamic terror organizations recruit and maintain support and/or silence among their followers.
At some point the grass roots must let their unions know that their behavior, their methods and their rationale is distorted and working against principles of trade unionism – the foundation on which these unions have been built is being raped and pillaged.
Comment by Gary
— June 9, 2007 @ 8:37 pm