How is the boycott going?

[teddyearp]

Boycott? What ya talkin' about Willis?

No... no... no...

"Wha-choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?!!!"

Different phonetic emphasis... get it right...

"Well excuse the hell outta me!" (From The Shootist with John Wayne) LOL.

 

[Hossfly]

Boycott? What ya talkin' about Willis?

No... no... no...

"Wha-choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?!!!"

Different phonetic emphasis... get it right...

aka "Whatcha"

 

[teddyearp]

Boycott. What boycott? We don' need no stinkin' boycott! We ain't got no stinkin' boycott!

 

[Beelzebub]

Boycott. What boycott? We don' need no stinkin' boycott! We ain't got no stinkin' boycott!

You wish.

 

[Kondor3]

Boycott. What boycott? We don' need no stinkin' boycott! We ain't got no stinkin' boycott!

You wish.

Not soze you'd notice, anyway...

 

[Beelzebub]

Another crack in the wall:

Divestment organizers at UCLA, representing a wide coalition of students from all backgrounds and sectors of campus, celebrated a milestone victory for social justice with the passage of "A Resolution to Divest from Corporations Engaged in Violence against Palestinians." The resolution, sponsored by Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed, Conrad Contreras, and Manjot Singh, passed by an 8-2-2 margin. It was sponsored by 15 student organizations and endorsed by an additional 17, making for 32 total student groups in support of divestment. UCLA's vote marks the 6th of 9 undergraduate University of California campuses to have taken a majority vote in support of divestment from corporations that violate Palestinian human rights.
Council members from a variety of political affiliations voted in favor of the resolution, including independents, progressives, and a member of the campus' moderate party. Before the vote, council members expressed their admiration and respect for the coalition building, education, and outreach by SJP-UCLA during our campaign. Also notable was the positive tone of the hearing and discussion, wherein most council members affirmed their support for one another regardless of their votes.

The resolution could not have been successful without the support of the students from many communities who came out to speak in its favor and who stayed at the hearing until it passed. Alaa Abuadas, the programming director for SJP-UCLA said, "as a Palestinian, I want to thank every single person who helped us pass this bill, for getting us one step closer to a free Palestine."

This resolution's victory does not mark the end of SJP's efforts. SJP sees the passage of divestment as a chance to help other communities use this tool as an avenue to attain more political agency. On that note, the organization sees this vote as laying a principled foundation from which students from myriad backgrounds can continue to educate and organize in support of not just Palestinian rights but all causes of social justice.

Press Release Students for Justice in Palestine Hails Divestment Victory Thanks all Supporters - Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA

Well, you know what they say. The children are the future. And university students are the future about to hit us.

 

[Kondor3]

Another crack in the wall:...

Another pro-Muslim circle-jerk within Liberal academia, in the People's Democratic Socialist Republic of Kalipornia... coverage carried on Wankervision.

That, and $3.50, will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks...

 

[Beelzebub]

You seem to have a dyslexia problem today Kondor.

Or is it Tourettes?

 

[Kondor3]

You seem to have a dyslexia problem today Kondor. Or is it Tourettes?

Anything you say, Bubbles... whatever.

 

[Challenger]

Another crack in the wall:

Divestment organizers at UCLA, representing a wide coalition of students from all backgrounds and sectors of campus, celebrated a milestone victory for social justice with the passage of "A Resolution to Divest from Corporations Engaged in Violence against Palestinians." The resolution, sponsored by Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed, Conrad Contreras, and Manjot Singh, passed by an 8-2-2 margin. It was sponsored by 15 student organizations and endorsed by an additional 17, making for 32 total student groups in support of divestment. UCLA's vote marks the 6th of 9 undergraduate University of California campuses to have taken a majority vote in support of divestment from corporations that violate Palestinian human rights.
Council members from a variety of political affiliations voted in favor of the resolution, including independents, progressives, and a member of the campus' moderate party. Before the vote, council members expressed their admiration and respect for the coalition building, education, and outreach by SJP-UCLA during our campaign. Also notable was the positive tone of the hearing and discussion, wherein most council members affirmed their support for one another regardless of their votes.

The resolution could not have been successful without the support of the students from many communities who came out to speak in its favor and who stayed at the hearing until it passed. Alaa Abuadas, the programming director for SJP-UCLA said, "as a Palestinian, I want to thank every single person who helped us pass this bill, for getting us one step closer to a free Palestine."

This resolution's victory does not mark the end of SJP's efforts. SJP sees the passage of divestment as a chance to help other communities use this tool as an avenue to attain more political agency. On that note, the organization sees this vote as laying a principled foundation from which students from myriad backgrounds can continue to educate and organize in support of not just Palestinian rights but all causes of social justice.

Press Release Students for Justice in Palestine Hails Divestment Victory Thanks all Supporters - Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA

Well, you know what they say. The children are the future. And university students are the future about to hit us.

Following on from yours, a minor but significant chip in the edifice was made in Exeter University too recently,

"Students at the University of Exeter have voted overwhelmingly in support of a boycott of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements. The referendum, which garnered 86% approval, generated the largest voter turnout in the history of the university. - See more at: University of Exeter students vote to boycott Israeli settlement products in a landslide BDSmovement.net

 

[Beelzebub]

86% is quite significant.

If there was a general election with that sort of majority it would blow every previous landslide out of the water.
It would seem that there will be more such plebiscites in more universities.

 

[Phoenall]

Oh I can do a lot more than that Aris.

But your 'rebuttal' is a load of codswallop.
You want your cake and eat it!

Israel claims a right to all the land of Palestine and yet denies any responsibility for the people there. Get it right Aris, or if you MUST get it wrong at least be consistent. If Israel has a right to build where it wants the people there are of its state and deserve full citizen rights. Trying to take the land but reject the people is your apartheid.

And you really cannot escape that conundrum. Not at least with any honest observer.

And here is your codswallop as Israel does not claim a right to all the land of Palestine, and you have failed to produce any concrete evidence of this. All you have given is people's private thoughts and wishes and tried to pass them of as Israeli policy. The people have their own government who are ineffectual and incapable of making any decisions. The land they build on is land stolen by your Palestinians in 1949 to which the Jews hold title. Also there is a treaty in place that the Palestinians tried to use against the Israelis just this year that gives Israel the right to build on the land. And the Palestinians and their stooges want the treaty to be withdrawn, or at least the parts they don't like.

So all the BDS is doing is making more and more Palestinians unemployed and leading to starvation and ethnic cleansing by the likes of you.

 

[Phoenall]

Another crack in the wall:

Divestment organizers at UCLA, representing a wide coalition of students from all backgrounds and sectors of campus, celebrated a milestone victory for social justice with the passage of "A Resolution to Divest from Corporations Engaged in Violence against Palestinians." The resolution, sponsored by Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed, Conrad Contreras, and Manjot Singh, passed by an 8-2-2 margin. It was sponsored by 15 student organizations and endorsed by an additional 17, making for 32 total student groups in support of divestment. UCLA's vote marks the 6th of 9 undergraduate University of California campuses to have taken a majority vote in support of divestment from corporations that violate Palestinian human rights.
Council members from a variety of political affiliations voted in favor of the resolution, including independents, progressives, and a member of the campus' moderate party. Before the vote, council members expressed their admiration and respect for the coalition building, education, and outreach by SJP-UCLA during our campaign. Also notable was the positive tone of the hearing and discussion, wherein most council members affirmed their support for one another regardless of their votes.

The resolution could not have been successful without the support of the students from many communities who came out to speak in its favor and who stayed at the hearing until it passed. Alaa Abuadas, the programming director for SJP-UCLA said, "as a Palestinian, I want to thank every single person who helped us pass this bill, for getting us one step closer to a free Palestine."

This resolution's victory does not mark the end of SJP's efforts. SJP sees the passage of divestment as a chance to help other communities use this tool as an avenue to attain more political agency. On that note, the organization sees this vote as laying a principled foundation from which students from myriad backgrounds can continue to educate and organize in support of not just Palestinian rights but all causes of social justice.

Press Release Students for Justice in Palestine Hails Divestment Victory Thanks all Supporters - Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA

Well, you know what they say. The children are the future. And university students are the future about to hit us.

Following on from yours, a minor but significant chip in the edifice was made in Exeter University too recently,

"Students at the University of Exeter have voted overwhelmingly in support of a boycott of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements. The referendum, which garnered 86% approval, generated the largest voter turnout in the history of the university. - See more at: University of Exeter students vote to boycott Israeli settlement products in a landslide BDSmovement.net

So does this mean they will still eat beans from LEGAL SETTLEMENTS and drink beer made in LEGAL SETTLEMENTS. Who says which of the settlements is LEGAL OR NOT. What a load of drivel the students can not boycott anything other than what they buy themselves, so this is just another paper tiger.

 

[Phoenall]

86% is quite significant.

If there was a general election with that sort of majority it would blow every previous landslide out of the water.
It would seem that there will be more such plebiscites in more universities.

86% of nothing is still nothing, and Exeter university procurement department will buy goods from the supplier offering the best deal. The students have no say in the matter, so this is just a paper exercise that means nothing.

 

[Kondor3]

Oh, dearie-me, as if some of these half-educated pseudo-children have any clue about what's going on over there, and were able to think for themselves, rather than playing the useful idiot and the lemming... hell, most of the faculties of these Pillars of Secular Liberalism feel the same way, but their Boards, and their governments, and their court systems, routinely *****-slap them, and set aside any practical effect of such circle-jerking...

As it is, most of those bubble-heads wouldn't recognize an Israeli-based product if it came up and bit them on the ass, never mind getting off their mental asses and checking labels for where things are made, before they buy them... and never mind being able to tell in advance which companies are operating in the West Bank and which are operating on older Israeli territory... heck, most of 'em will probably sign or vote-for such censure, then go out to the grocery store, and buy half-a-dozen Israeli (and even West Bank) products without even realizing it or giving it a second thought...

And even within the sampling universe of those 'committed students' who scrupulously examine labels before buying, just how long do you expect this Activist Consumerism to last? A week? A month? A year? Until the next time that Israeli products go on Sale, attracting students in droves?

Funny stuff, though...

 

[Beelzebub]

DURHAM, NC, November 24, 2014 -- Durham has become the first U.S. municipality to boycott a company because of its role in perpetuating injustice in Israel/Palestine.

On a night when the Ferguson grand jury failed to indict Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown, Durham residents successfully brought an end to a $1 million annual contract between the County and with private security corporation G4S Secure Solutions.

G4S previously provided security at Durham County libraries and civic buildings. Durham reconsidered its security contract after residents protested the role of the privatized police force in the community and the company’s involvement in Israeli institutions that detain and discriminate against Palestinians.

“As a long-time Durham resident, the presence in my community of a company that participates in the oppression of my people makes me feel unsafe and unwelcome,” said Ahmad Jitan. “Given their track record in occupied Palestine, I do not expect G4S to have the best interests of people of color here in Durham in mind. If Ferguson can’t even keep the public police force accountable for their actions, how can we expect to keep a private police force like G4S accountable? For the sake of both my homes, I am proud that the county dropped the G4S contract. I do not want my tax money to fund a company that profits from the occupation of my people's land.”

G4S signed a contract with the Israeli Prison Service in 2007 and its machinery and security officers have been deployed in checkpoints and illegal settlements in occupied Palestine.

“Since I moved to Israel and saw the reality of life for Palestinians with my own eyes, I could no longer remain silent,” said Emily Schneider, a member of Jewish Voice for Peace - NC. “I waited for hours with Palestinian friends at checkpoints that look like cages—that run with G4S security equipment. Thank you, Durham County Commissioners, for boycotting G4S.”

BDS Victory Durham drops 1 million contract with Israeli occupation profiteer Jewish Voice for Peace

Good.
More to come.

 

[Kondor3]

DURHAM, NC, November 24, 2014 -- Durham has become the first U.S. municipality to boycott a company because of its role in perpetuating injustice in Israel/Palestine.

On a night when the Ferguson grand jury failed to indict Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown, Durham residents successfully brought an end to a $1 million annual contract between the County and with private security corporation G4S Secure Solutions.

G4S previously provided security at Durham County libraries and civic buildings. Durham reconsidered its security contract after residents protested the role of the privatized police force in the community and the company’s involvement in Israeli institutions that detain and discriminate against Palestinians.

“As a long-time Durham resident, the presence in my community of a company that participates in the oppression of my people makes me feel unsafe and unwelcome,” said Ahmad Jitan. “Given their track record in occupied Palestine, I do not expect G4S to have the best interests of people of color here in Durham in mind. If Ferguson can’t even keep the public police force accountable for their actions, how can we expect to keep a private police force like G4S accountable? For the sake of both my homes, I am proud that the county dropped the G4S contract. I do not want my tax money to fund a company that profits from the occupation of my people's land.”

G4S signed a contract with the Israeli Prison Service in 2007 and its machinery and security officers have been deployed in checkpoints and illegal settlements in occupied Palestine.

“Since I moved to Israel and saw the reality of life for Palestinians with my own eyes, I could no longer remain silent,” said Emily Schneider, a member of Jewish Voice for Peace - NC. “I waited for hours with Palestinian friends at checkpoints that look like cages—that run with G4S security equipment. Thank you, Durham County Commissioners, for boycotting G4S.”

BDS Victory Durham drops 1 million contract with Israeli occupation profiteer Jewish Voice for Peace

Good.
More to come.

A couple of hundred resident Muslims and Jewish Israel-haters (Quislings) made a lot of noise and caused the county to drop the contract?

Trouble is, the contract was (1) already expired, and (2) G4S was providing services on a month-by-month contract-extension basis, and (3) the county was already looking for a different kind of company with a centralized command center, even before the latest round of anti-Israeli Muslim-Jewish-Quisling protests had begun.

The county did, indeed, cave into 200-some-odd protesters, making a lot of noise, for convenience sake, but they were headed in that direction already, without such a stimulus.

It was by no means a condemnation of Israel or any of its corporations, no matter how badly Muslims and Jewish Quislings would like to spin it in that way, and bamboozle the more naive amongst us.

An independent take on the contract-dropping event...

County prepping building-security changes The Herald-Sun

The contract...

http://durhamcounty.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=662&meta_id=33718

They were preparing another R(equest) F(or) P(roposal) anyway, and have already declared that G4S will be welcome to bid on the RFP, as well.

This was a matter of the existing vendor's system not working out very well, and the county board becoming dissatisfied, and considering pulling the plug on the vendor long before these anti-Israel yahoos had any substantive momentum in connection with the issue.

But, when this month-by-month extension of this contract turned-out the way that these anti-Israel yahoos had hoped...

They jumped on the event like it was all their idea... that the dropping of the contract was due to their efforts... overlooking the idea that the country already had the contract on month-by-month life support until they were ready with another RFP sequence...

But, when one has so few substantive victories to point to, one must ginn-up whatever successes one can, wherever one finds them, even if the Deciding Authority had already determined to take an action that happened to coincide with the ambitions of Israel-haters.

Classic spin-doctoring, by the lightweight, silly-assed BDS folk...

 

[montelatici]

Oh I can do a lot more than that Aris.

But your 'rebuttal' is a load of codswallop.
You want your cake and eat it!

Israel claims a right to all the land of Palestine and yet denies any responsibility for the people there. Get it right Aris, or if you MUST get it wrong at least be consistent. If Israel has a right to build where it wants the people there are of its state and deserve full citizen rights. Trying to take the land but reject the people is your apartheid.

And you really cannot escape that conundrum. Not at least with any honest observer.

And here is your codswallop as Israel does not claim a right to all the land of Palestine, and you have failed to produce any concrete evidence of this. All you have given is people's private thoughts and wishes and tried to pass them of as Israeli policy. The people have their own government who are ineffectual and incapable of making any decisions. The land they build on is land stolen by your Palestinians in 1949 to which the Jews hold title. Also there is a treaty in place that the Palestinians tried to use against the Israelis just this year that gives Israel the right to build on the land. And the Palestinians and their stooges want the treaty to be withdrawn, or at least the parts they don't like.

So all the BDS is doing is making more and more Palestinians unemployed and leading to starvation and ethnic cleansing by the likes of you.

"The land they build on is land stolen by your Palestinians in 1949"

How is this possible, Arabs owned 85% of the land in 1946. Did they steal it from themselves? From the UN commissioned Survey of Palestine published in 1946 before Partition. The full document can be downloaded in PDF from NYU's and Wagner Universities' Berman Jewish Policy Archive:


A Survey of Palestine Volume 1 Berman Jewish Policy Archive NYU Wagner

 

[Beelzebub]

County prepping building-security changes The Herald-Sun

The contract...

http://durhamcounty.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=662&meta_id=33718

That's interesting.

Admittedly, G4S is renowned for its failing services and incompetent organisation.
Political protest is going to provide only a slight tipping of the scales for most contracts, but it plays its part.

I will be content to see G4S lose another opportunity, no matter what the weight given to the causes.

 

[Kondor3]

County prepping building-security changes The Herald-Sun

The contract...

http://durhamcounty.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=662&meta_id=33718

That's interesting.

Admittedly, G4S is renowned for its failing services and incompetent organisation.
Political protest is going to provide only a slight tipping of the scales for most contracts, but it plays its part.

I will be content to see G4S lose another opportunity, no matter what the weight given to the causes.

So long as it is understood (and documented, beyond a reasonable doubt) that anti-Israeli (BDS-caliber) protests were not a decisive factor in the decision of this county to terminate such a contract, I am content as well.