We do not want an angry generation
To plough the sky
To blow up history
To blow up our thoughts.
We want a new generation
That does not forgive mistakes
That does not bend.
We want a generation of giants.
Verse, Nizar Qabbani, 1967
I am just back from the Hampshire National Campus Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Conference and trying to collect my thoughts. Phil and I attended together and it was a whirlwind of action, energy and information. We’ll be posting updates and news from the conference over the next days and weeks, but my initial impression is simply awe.
The students meeting at Hampshire represented over 40 campuses from across the U.S. and Canada. From what I can tell there are at least 10 active divestment and boycott campaigns underway now, with about at least 10 or 15 more just about to get kicked off. The ideas being discussed range from forcing universities to divest their investment holdings to canceling vendor contracts with companies benefiting from the occupation to challenging study abroad programs in Israel that discriminate against Palestinian students (and lots more in between). All options are on the table, and enthusiasm, creativity and hope abound.
I had the pleasure of meeting several students whose work we’ve highlighted here on the site, but I had only corresponded with by email. Students from Oberlin, the University of Buffalo, and of course Hampshire, shared more stories of their work with me. On their own, each of these activists offered inspiring examples from their own campuses, but together in one room these students looked different. Rather than just disparate stories scattered across the map, they have come together to form a movement – one that I think will shape the future.
The students I met at Hampshire didn’t amaze me by how idealistic they are, but by how grounded. Yes, they are casually comfortable with ideas that are considered kryptonite to the the mainstream discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – namely equality and justice for Palestinians – and to these activists those values are simply common sense. But what really stood out was how strategic, mindful, and smart these leaders are. This is a movement prepared to win. And they know how to do it.
Listening to report after report from campuses across the country I was reminded of my feelings after watching Mustafa Barghouti and Anna Baltzer on the Daily Show. It is clear that BDS, and Israel/Palestine more generally, is joining the progressive agenda. Students who had been working on anti-war issues or anti-sweatshops organizing, or farmworker solidarity work are now engaging this issue. They’re bringing their experience with them and taking the lessons from those other movements, especially how those movements have won victories, and are cutting them loose on the "tired debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" on campus.
I attended a workshop by two students from the University of Arizona, and one of them, Gabriel Matthew Schivone, began it by quoting the poem at the beginning of this post. Schivone said that this movement is being led by "a new generation of giants." I couldn’t help but laugh to myself, part out of giddy enthusiasm and part of out of slight astonishment. What a bold, grandiose statement. But you know, he’s right.
Amazing news.
Please update us with more information regarding this and how we can get involved.
This movement is destined to fail, Palestinians don’t even agree with it. It must be hard to support a movement which doesn’t even have the support of those you are ‘defending.’
link to engageonline.wordpress.com
Big deal. The TUFI delegation went to I/P with an agenda (eg. Today (Wednesday 4 November) we had meetings with Palestinians in Nablus: some positive things came out, but overall I was disappointed with a top official when this person called her neighbours the “enemy” and the meeting got a bit tasty shall we say. I wonder if she should be in that job as she came across as very bitter), and found some Palestinians to confirm their pre-concieved ideas. The reported opinion of some unnamed workers in the Jerusalem Municipality, with no direct quotes or context, hardly constitutes a Palestinian rejection of BDS. I have yet to see any serious condemnation of BDS by credible Palestinian figures. If you have any such information, yonira, I’d be interested in seeing it.
In case anyone missed it, TUFI stands for Trade Union Friends of Israel. An objective organisation if there ever was one.
As long as we’re on the subject of pro-Israeli organisations posing as objective peace-seekers and general arbiters of good taste, check out the Hampshire group headed by Tal Schechter (mentioned in a recent post by Adam), and now under the auspices of J-Street: Students Promoting Israeli Culture and Information (SPICI) at Hampshire College.
For the record, Students Promoting Israeli Culture and Information is not really under the auspices of J-Street. To say this, and your misguided claim that it is headed by Tal Schechter shows a clear misunderstanding of Hampshire College in its very structuring, besides the misunderstanding of the purposes of SPICI. Hampshire doesn’t have singly lead or hierarchically structured groups, and the two other Hampshire students who share equal responsibility for planning and signing off on various SPICI events had nothing to do with Tal’s offensively worded email. SPICI itself was not advocating for the “$2 for two states.” This was all Tal and J-Street. The most political thing SPICI has done in the year and a half since its creation (and by creation, I mean its rebirth in breaking away from UPZ when they decided not to be a politically driven club) is screen “Waltz for Bashir.” We (Students for Justice in Palestine) are not really at odds with them. Please do not conflate the group SPICI as a whole with J-Street just because of Tal. Thank you.
Elizabeth, I’m sorry if I misunderstood. My comments were based on the way Schechter signed his letter, and the info on the SPICI Hampedia page (eg. Israel t-shirt day – “everything from IDF to Hebrew Coca Cola”), in addition to the name itself, which – like Trade Union Friends of Israel – hardly inspires confidence in a group that claims to take a balanced or even progressive position on I/P. I said nothing about Students for Justice in Palestine.
Thank you for you apology. In a blog post about the conference run by Students for Justice in Palestine, conflating SPICI with J-Street (who we are at odds with) I just felt painted an unfair picture of our relationship with SPICI, and I didn’t want that. I did just look at the Hampedia page, since you mentioned it, and you’re right, it seems that Tal has co-opted the page, which is far more concerning to me than his ludicrous J-Street email. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
I bow to your greater knowledge of the hierarchy( or lack thereof) of Hampshire student politics, however, on their Hampedia page, SPICI does claim that:
link to hampedia.org
And J Street U describes itself thsly:
And the J Street Education Fund is described thusly:
link to jstreetu.org
It sounds like SPICI has aligned itself with a politically driven organization, not just a cultural one.
Oops, I see that you have already discovered that page, and I am a bit late with my comment. Thanks for your concern about this, Elizabeth.
It sounds that you have a negative experience of J Street. Why is that?
I assume that you attended the conference. What were your impressions of the event?
Idiotes, that’s Greek for the Apolitical
The meeting definitely got a bit tasty when Moshe showed up with bagels and Sa’id broke out the hummus. Yum yum.
… Terry brought the gin, and the unsuited Palestinian official provided the bitters.
Keep panicking, yonira. I actually enjoy it, in spite of my better nature.
Panicking?
the only thing that scares me is the Palestinian people are putting faith in such a joke of a movement. Another generation down the shitter if you ask me.
It took 50 years for BDS to have ANY effect in SA. Are you willing to sacrifice another generation of Palestinians? As long as it takes huh Chaos? Pretty easy thing to say from your fucking dorm room.
It’s not “sacrificing” a generation of Palestinians — it’s a generation of Palestinians who are being slaughtered. Slaughtered by Israelis, by people you support, and ultimately by people like you.
Honestly? I think the world actually owes the Palestinians enough to intervene militarily on Israel, topple its regime, arrest its leaders and try them for war crimes and put those rogue nuclear hands somewhere safe (or get rid of them completely, preferably). But since that isn’t going to happen, the next best thing is to resist Israel in any way possible.
We outmaneuvered you right-wingers on civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights (such as we have them in the US) and South Africa (and the boycott movement for SA did not take 50 years, like you claim). I’m not worried.
Spoken like a true scholar of International Relations
Thanks for the laugh Chaos.
I’ll bet you’re one of the dupes that claim that Jack Abramoff was a “bipartisan” criminal, too.
What does he have to do with this? oh yeah, he’s Jewish. Way to let your true colors shine Chaos.
oh shut the hell up Zionist, you always remind people here about the Arab-ness of any ‘bad’ Arab, when we do it to you, you cry about it
Being called a Zionist doesn’t really offend me Cliff.
One can only hope that others, especially in high places are of the same opinion with you yonira, blissfully ignorant and claiming invincibility.
That’s true, it took the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale a few hours to ice that cake.
It’s the ziocaine. She swings from grandiosity to whining paranoia. I have never figured out what they see in the stuff.
Just to put the canard that the Palestinians themselves are against BDS to rest once and for all, here is the Palestinian appeal – signed by 170 Palestinian organisations, including trade unions – for boycott and divestment, on which the entire BDS movement is based:
link to bdsmovement.net
Are you implying that yonira would try to mislead us, Shmuel?
I know. I’m as shocked as you, FC.
Unfortunately, with apologies to Marxists, trade unions are rarely in the forefront of people’s struggles, and Palestine is no exception. Were it not for Palestinian workers who build them, there would be no settlement construction. That is the sad fact. Construction work, like farm work has long been considered “Arab work” by Israeli Jews and when Palestinians have not been available other foreign workers have been imported and equally exploited. Israeli Jewish xenophobia is disturbed by the presence of so many non-Jews but not enough to get them to dirty their hands with manual labor. Under the circumstances, Palestinian workers, who do not represent the majority of Palestinians are not about the lead the Palestinians out of their present circumstances. That their need to put food on the tables for their families comes first is understandable. Those willing to go beyond that in any liberation struggle are always a minority. Given the absence of meaningful leadership in the West Bank, the prospects there are not bright, which may also explain the negative feelings of the workers about the BDS. It is clear that Palestine will only be liberated with outside pressure as was the case with South Africa.
Construction work, like farm work has long been considered “Arab work” by Israeli Jews and when Palestinians have not been available other foreign workers have been imported and equally exploited. Israeli Jewish xenophobia is disturbed by the presence of so many non-Jews but not enough to get them to dirty their hands with manual labor.
An important comment. Even those Israelis calling for the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel typically hedge their bets, acknowledging that some Palestinians may remain, presumably to pick citrus or wash dishes.
Another thing to remember is that the main Palestinian union, the PGFTU, is controlled by Fateh and serves the interests of the Abbas “government” – accurately reflecting the leadership’s confusion, powerlessness and conflict of interests.
It suppose this happened years ago, at least in the states unions decided they were the partners of management – which means they no longer understood the adversarial relationship between corporate management and the workers. So there is no love lost these days between those who support workers and the unions. plus you can see the results of decisions like this.
In the Palestinian arena there are always those who are willing to sell their birthright for almost nothing, just short term moderate comfort. Plus, you have those who have taken advantage of the “investment” in the Palestinian community, who ignore the occupation at the same time. Playing into the hands of the world community which just wishes to exploit the area.
The Zionists always crave the “hewers of wood and drawers of water” like you say Jeffrey, what else is new? However I believe that those from the Palestinian community are more than just a small minority that wishes to participate in BDS. As long as the Palestinians allow themselves to be split, rather than unify, for something they “think” they have, there will be divisions. It is only when they realize that who they are dealing with equally does not give a damn whether they are in Israel proper, the territories, or diaspora that much can be accomplished for the liberation of all.
We didn’t invent the BDS movement in the West.
Its the Palestinians that asked us to implement BDS.
I should have gone. I wish you had told me personally that you were going to be there. But, I guess you felt that that would have hindered you in some way.
Has it occurred to you that nobody cares what you think, Witty? Has it occurred to you there’s a reason you’re not on the mailing list for Hampshire College?
Witty, Phil and Adam announced the BDS Conference at Hampshire in September. So you knew about it. Campus BDS movement looks to grow with Fall conference
link to mondoweiss.net
I posted here about the conference before Adam did. Don’t get snarky.
I had a prior commitment in presenting a new equitable banking model in Worcester (at Clark).
Specifically, were the important questions of clarification of what are the specific goals of BDS discussed?
Or, was it all “how-to”?
You don’t care about the specific goals of BDS, you’ve made that painfully clear many times now. If you think you’re going to be able to undermine the discussion with innuendo and permutated regurgitation of the same lines of empty rhetoric you always pepper the blog with, you’re sadly mistaken.
I don’t know about any workshops on the specific goals of BDS. Everyone there seemed to be on the same page as far as that was concerned. Most of them were, as you say, “how-to”, but Noura Erekat ran a workshop on international law as it applies to the context, for instance, and I went to one on media relations and another on writing. You should check the program if you’re interested in the content, Richard (click on the “Workshop/Panel” links) — although the website version doesn’t have the block descriptions like our printout did. A few of the blocks on the printout didn’t have descriptions either and we could really only feasibly attend one workshop per block to get anything out of it so I only know about the ones I was there for.
Thanks.
I did look at the workshop lists. They seemed interesting. Were there many older people there, or was it mostly students? (Phil and I are the same age. Did you meet him or Adam?)
I think it is important to clarify goals. One of the characteristics of the Gandhi and Martin Luther King non-violence movements, was that they were very specific about very limited and specific objectives of non-violent civil disobedience.
They also took the sense of personal moral responsibility very seriously to willingly face those that they were disobeying, to disobey, and conspicuously accept the consequences of their law-breaking. Boycott, divestment, sanctions is MUCH more anonymous and therefore does not possess the same moral force.
Also, when Gandhi conducted the salt march, or organized intra-Indian boycotts, even though he accepted international support, the weight of the civil disobedience was local, NOT oriented to an imposition from outside.
And, he did grapple with the question of the very long period of time that it took to realize the goals of civil disobedience. He was impatient at times, but his commitment to non-violence was more important. It was more than merely a tactic. He expressed regret actively, about asking English to suffer the result of boycott of English goods for example.
I don’t yet hear that from BDS advocates on Israel.
There are compelling reasons that Israel has sympathy in the world. To undertake a BDS movement that is not FIRMLY and DEEPLY on the moral high ground, will make the struggle long.
I suggest that reconciliation and assertion of Palestinian rights would be accomplished in the same time frame (or less), BY undertaking the FIRM and DEEP moral highground rather than as just a temporary tactic.
I’ve been impressed by the renunciation of violence of Fatah and Fayyad, to the point that I consider their efforts as undeniable to Israel and international public opinion (at all scales). But, that more emotional activism has criticized their approaches as “quisling” rather than as leadership. Abbas in particular has sustained a commitment to non-violent approaches, even through a very long and humiliating treatment by Israel.
Oh yes Witty, we are sure that Abbas “sustained a commitment to non-violent approaches,” when he rubbed his hands together with glee as Gaza was bombed, being part of the planning process. He was also a tower of moral stature when he and Dahlan attacked Hamas being armed and witrh the goal of forcibly removing the elected government. Do you always bleed with such ridiculous statements Witty? Or are you just perpetually stupid for Israel’s sake?
So, we have different impressions of the degree of non-violence and corruption of modern Fatah and PA, versus Hamas.
Insofar as there’s VR, the factual record and the rest of the world on one side, and you on the other.
Yeah, how to bring to the attention of the masses what Israel has been doing to the
Palestinians with US taxpayer funds. The goal is to put pressure on Israel to change its occupier and lebensraum ways because our government will not although such pressure is in the best interests of the USA and in accordance with international law and opinion, as well as being in the best long term interest of Israel’s survival.
I am in touch with individuals at Hampshire that support the two-state solution as most practical way to realize mutual humanization, and that value Zionism as haven for Jews.
And, they/we oppose settlement expansion, annexation and expropriation of land, distortions of Palestinians’ rights.
They/we are also very wary of the Ali Abunimeh formula of simultaneously advocating for Palestinian sovereignty (particularly through the concept of unlimited right of return) and a single democratic state.
Like there is rational fear that likud is deceptive in claiming to seek mutual justice, I/we consider the Abunimeh formula to be a stacked deck that absent secure partition, could/will result in political suppression of the Jewish minority.
Oh ho ho, you’re in touch, are you? And yet the memo for this got lost in the mail before it reached you? Riiiight.
You’re not going to be able to dodge away by spamming us with new thread starters.
Its very hard to participate in discussion here, with you shadowing me Chaos.
It is an open question whether the site is meant for discussion or organizing.
Those aren’t mutually exclusive functions Witty. Funny, you’d think a liberal would be intimately familiar with that…
Anyway, I don’t make an illusions about what I’m doing or why I’m doing it. You’re going to spam the blog with propaganda and snide comments and try to pass that off as “discussion,” huh?
Phil does suggest a great faith in youth that is important.
As I’ve said, I’ve been to Amherst where Hampshire is located and attended demonstrations led by the organizations involved. Some of the individuals demonstrating have been idealistic, appealing, motivated by compassion, dedicated.
Others have been mean, taunting, harrassing, dogmatic.
I’m curious as to the actual tenor of the movement, as it has not yet distinguished itself as committed to non-violence in root, but only publicly in tactic.
Where that you would take the same microscope to the Zionist movement, Witty.
Where that? What does that mean?
So, what’s new? Student demonstrators have always been a mix such as you describe, Witty.
The moment of truth has arrived:
link to counterpunch.org
Witty is a timesink. His sole purpose is to undermine any debate or discussion critical of Zionism. Don’t waste your energy.
O-Joes, a mere typo. Chaos meant “Were it that you would take the same microscope to the Zionist movement” meaning that Witty might be hypocritical in analyzing the BDS movement so critically, while remaining silent on the radicalism of Zionists in supporting the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Yep, it’s all about who has the upper hand in the information age–Witty is doing his best that his POV continues to rule, no matter the cost to those less worthy:
link to sabbah.biz
Just let it slide, Chaos is on a role.
Is it a speaking role, yoni? Will he be going “no holds bar” to the tasty meeting?
This thread is a treasure trove of bad Israeli English.
And then there’s Witty’s post at 11:30 am, maybe the single most incoherent moment in his voluminous oeuvre. Quite an accomplishment.
This thread is a treasure trove of bad Israeli English.
In all fairness, FC, the “tasty meeting” was dished up by Irishman Terry McCorran, and yonira, if I’m not mistaken, is US-born ‘n bred. I’m all for criticism of Israel, but you’ve gone too far this time ;-)
Fair enough, Shmuel. That being the case I’ll suspend doubt that the meeting was actually testy, or nasty, since for an Irishman, probably raised on boiled beef and cabbage, it may well have been delicious, simply delicious.
As for yoni, I guess they can’t teach everything in Hebrew school. Perhaps some day someone nicer than I am will teach him the expression, “no holds barred.”
Thanks for teaching me the expression. You are nicer than you think.
The Zionist capacity to make anything that comes out of their mouths an insult or an attack of some kind, never ceases to amuse me.
how do you figure?
I hope you are not implying that I mistook testy or nasty for tasty, FC. I just cut and paste around here. Besides, tasty in UK parlance (Terry’s from Belfast) can just mean “interesting”.
As for Y, I think you did manage to teach him the expression, without excessive tastiness.
You’re our treasure, Shmuel, fear not. :-)
Separate but equal a la Jim Crow is the stacked decked within Israel, and the reality in the OT IS political suppression by actual physical seige on the natives. Did anyone care about the concern of the white S Africans for their own suppression?
That honest and bolt message reminds me what John Kaminski said about DR. Ahmadinejad in his article “The Beautiful Iranians”….
“I don’t know how many times I’he said to my friends – and they can verify it – “I wish we had a president as decent as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current and outspoken president of Iran”. I mean just compare two men as human beings. Mr. Ahmadinejad seem like a decent guy from the neighborhood, trying to tell the truth while being trampled by the demonic Jewish spin machine. And here is Barack Obama (as have been all American presidents since U.S. Grant), revealing himself to the world as a lying pathological killer. Hey, which one would you choose?”
New war strategy in the Middle East
link to rehmat1.wordpress.com
I am sure Iran would welcome you with open arms, please consider.
Dual citizen, heal thyself.
There are two elements to this effort that I think are important:
1. What gets accomplished? What affects of the effort occur?
2. How does it affect those that get engaged to get productively engaged in subsequent issues? How do they stay engaged, not burnt out? How do they pick their issues? How do they stay fearless? How do they treat others?
Again, Witty — if only you would apply your sharp Occam’s razor to Zionism too. But you don’t. Wittypocrisy.
They’ve already picked their issue. The issue is Zionism, Richard. We young people think it is a racist, colonial nightmare for the indigenous population, and always has been (at least in its statist conception), and not only that, but it is hardly a fulfillment of the “safe haven” rhetoric you regurgitate on a daily basis here, since Israeli Jews are at MORE risk than Jews anywhere else, and many of them–especially the young ones who’ve just finished their army duty–just want to LEAVE.
In other words, Zionism is a failure. Thank your lucky angels that you only participate in it vicariously, Richard, because it is going to be a harsh reality when the apartheid walls finally come crashing down. I have sympathy for the Israelis who have been indoctrinated in a separatist, supremacist worldview that is obviously unsustainable without massive infusions of welfare from the U.S. and abroad. They all face a hell of a wake-up call.
The BDS movement is never going to be pro-Zionist, but go ahead and fantasize that your rhetoric will have some influence to that effect. Unfortunately (for you), anyone who’s paying attention (and doesn’t have an ideological attachment to Jewish ethnocracy) sees the two-state solution is a farce. It is not believable; it isn’t even a long-shot fantasy. It didn’t happen in the last 60 years and it won’t happen in the next 60, either. The political will and resources that would be necessary to create a viable Palestinian state simply don’t exist–not in Israel, not in the U.S., not in the Arab world, nowhere.
Where does that leave you, Richard? Riffing oblivious on all your old standards while the mighty ship goes down. It doesn’t matter to us if you jump or go down with it. But why not get out of the way of those who want to escape?
Witty wants to have his cake and eat it too–live cushioned (by 98% gentiles) in the USA who he thinks may switch at any minute into pogroms due to the natural gentile birth defect of anti-semitism–yet devote the USA’s resources and blood, sweat, and tears, to support
Israel. How is Witty going to get out of the way, given his stance? He’s very much
a part of the way, the way he thinks is the way to Jewish continuity, no matter the cost to lesser people.
The dreams of the youth. Its not going to be easy and many generations of Palestinians will be ruined because of your no holds bar attitude.
Never in history has a group of people gotten their asses kicked so much and with each ass kicking feel like they can get more and more.
You mischaracterize my attitude, yoni. I am always “holding bar”. It’s the only way I can maintain myself in a vertical position, what with the great quantities of liquor reading about your racist state makes me want to drink.
And speaking about ass-kicking, what’s the difference between getting your ass kicked and being “persecuted”? Enlighten us! Please!
Yeah, I suppose it would kind of suck of the Palestinian society devolved to be bitter, selfish, immoral, delusional liars. I mean, because then they’d become Israelis!
“Never in history has a group of people gotten their asses kicked so much and with each ass kicking feel like they can get more and more.”
ROTFL!! You said it, Yonira! You should find work in a movie theater, I’ve never seen a better projector!
Projection is putting it mildly. The Israelis see a mirror image of themselves in the Palestinians, and their treatment of the Palestinians is a form of self loathing.
Ben Hecht, writing in 1943, wrote of the unparalleled “docility” of the German people after he witnessed the surrender of some 8,000 Spartacists who had captured the Polizeiprasidium in Alexanderplatz in 1920. These “rabid revolutionists behind their barricades” laid down their arms after being confronted and lectured by a handfulof geriatrics in dress uniform and ornamental swords, including Ludendorff. Thus disarmed, the militants were then herded to Moabit Prison where, in the following days, row after row, men, women and boys were machined gunned. It seems Hecht’s description of docility of the Germans was a bit of projection as well.
Witty: “There are two elements to this effort that I think are important:
1. What gets accomplished? What affects of the effort occur?”
If you really cared, why weren’t you at the conference? It was near by you, and Adam and Phil announced it in September on this site with times and details.
Here’s the link, again: link to mondoweiss.net
Its actually comic to hear me characterized as a “nazi”, or cushioned by the sacrificed blood of anglo servicemen/women, or a timesink.
Sad comedy, comedy that indicates an unwillingness to commit ask difficult questions that might make an idea possible, or note it as ineffective and a potentially harmful waste of time.
It is SO important to find a solution that realizes a good outcome for Palestinians AND for Israelis, that it is far more useful to actually talk.
Leaders do their talking earlier. Only a few are the vanguard, where actual issues get discussed. Necessarily so. Movements don’t happen if every element of every strategy is questioned every time any new participant must act.
But, they also don’t happen if there isn’t confident basis that the strategy and tactics determined have been thoroughly and skeptically vetted, from the multiple perspectives needed to be enthusiatically pursued.
If only 10 times the 100 or so (I don’t know the number) of attendees, that doesn’t make a mass movement.
Too bad Witty, you keep talking, regardless BDS will hit Israel like a medieval siege, just like what has been done to the Palestinians. It has been a long process trying to get everyone to unite to quadruple their strength, but it is worth every moment. Now they will be communicating with each other during the entire process, to insure maximum success.
I hope the students didn’t think as you did, that they instead seek to succeed rather than to harm.
Zionist, heal thyself. (Yes I’m getting a lot of mileage out of that cliche lately. But if the shoe fits…)
” instead seek to succeed “
Witty is taking names, and will see those students never work again in this town. Zionists are always making economic threats like that.
Coming from an unemployed idler like Witty, who will have faded from adolescent excrescence into and obstinate obsolescence before those kids ever submit a resume, it’s pathetic.
Oh yes, Witty, my mistake. This article really is all about you and not about Hampshire College. (Holy cow, seriously, does anybody else have any doubts why he doesn’t work there any more?)
Don’t you guys see what Witty is trying to tell you? Sure it makes perfect sense! You have to protest Israel by being nice to them, and if you are, the Israelis might respond!
After all, haven’t the Israelis proven over the years how amenable they are to humanist, and nicely framed, protests.
Witty, nobody id asking for your permission, and nobody expects any6 co-operation from Israel.
The idea that you control this process is strictly a ziocaine fantasy. And pretty damn pathetic, too.
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PS Yonira, Witty, et. al.:
Palestinian unions, including the PGFTU, not only unanimously support the boycott, but sit on the Boycott National Committee, the BNC, the Palestinian coordinating body.
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