thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:08 am Post subject: UK journalist union votes to boycott Israeli goods |
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Well, this is wildly inappropriate.
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Report: UK journalist union votes to boycott Israeli goods
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. |
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152792457&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Are they even pretending to have objectivity anymore? I wonder if boycotts of NK, Zimbabwe, China, Cuba (dare to dream), Burma, Iran and Belarus on en route? If no, then why only Israel? |
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