Heh, anti-Israel blogs are already claiming that BDS's democratic rights were infringed because this was the vote to hold the vote and not the actual vote. I note the hypocrisy given what BDS thought of democratic participation at the Olympia coop.
Given how often the topic is brought up in the comments section of this blog, readers might be surprised to know that in the hundreds of articles and blog entries I’ve written over the years on the subject of BDS, I have yet to accuse those involved with the so-called Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment “movement” [...]
In previous versions of this piece published during past divestment campaigns, I have described the tactics of those who advocate divestment the hardest, those that push organizations to put the divestment agenda ahead of all other considerations, as “ruthless.” Yet what does this term mean, beyond highlighting the aggressive, “by-any-means-necessary” nature of these people’s behavior? [...]
I’ve been thinking a bit more about the notion of “fantasy” that I began to discuss in the last posting. As some friends know, I’m a big fan of the writer Lee Harris whose masterpiece, Al Queda’s Fantasy Ideology, is considered to be one of the most insightful things ever written about 9/11. In it, [...]
Heh, anti-Israel blogs are already claiming that BDS's democratic rights were infringed because this was the vote to hold the vote and not the actual vote. I note the hypocrisy given what BDS thought of democratic participation at the Olympia coop.