of Arizona, that is, for its immigration law. Washington Post columnist Robert McCartney on the ethics of boycott:
The question isn't whether to start an economic boycott to pressure Arizona to repeal its new immigration law. For me, that's a given.
The question is which products and services to blacklist to get results fastest, while minimizing needless harm.
Also, note that British prime minister Gordon Brown referred to an anti-immigration activist in Europe as a "bigot." Attitudes toward unreconstructed nationalism are changing all over, in the era of globalization.
And 20 percent of Israel's population is not represented in the country's leadership. h/t Janet McMahon of Washington Report.
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Phil:
The person whom Gordon Brown referred to as a bigot was not an “anti-immigration activist”, but an elderly supporter of his own party who had, in the course of a wide-ranging discussion with him, expressed mild concern about the number of (legal) East European immigrants coming to the country. Hence the widespread outrage in Britain at his comments – and hence also the weakness as an analogy to anything happening in Arizona.
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Finally, someone is making sense. If Americans presumably need to boycott Arizona for its law and not Mexico for sending the illegal immigrants in the first place, the BDS movement should boycott the US that sends money and support to Israel. BDS your own government.
Its absolutely the idea behind the students senate bills, GE is not israeli its American company. We can also boycott Israel at academic level which is not linked to the US, as Israel is the only party that execute violations of Palestinians rights for ex: why a Palestinian born in Gaza can’t go study in his ‘own country’ in the West Bank.
Israel is practically a state just like arizona. Puerto Rico never got as much attention as Israel’s worst day in Washington.
The population is the same, but Arizona is about 13 times larger.
If Washington penalized the owners that hired the workers, this problem would never have lost control.
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Eee, and presumeably you, as a self-identified Israeli, will BDS the government of Israel? So, you’re onboard with the BDS movement here in the USA against US corporations benefiting from the Israeli occupation? Good to know. There are Palestinians living today who were alive when Jews took their land. There are no Mexicans or native Americans alive today who were alive when the US took Arizona from Mexico and the native Americans. So, obviously, the need to stop Israel now via BDS is of primary practical importance all of us who care most about living humans, yes?
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Absolutely time to start making these connections:
link to hoseyblog.blog.com
Note that McCartney calls boycotts an “all-American” response to oppression.
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When talking about illegal immigration into the U.S., it is always necessary to emphasize that this immigration is a direct consequence of U.S. foreign and economic policies. Most of these immigrants came to the U.S. out of desperation, their economies ruined by neo-liberal economic intervention, their lives endangered by U.S. supported/funded authoritarian regimes and death squads. The solution to the immigration problem is rather simple and straight forward: eliminate the U.S. Empire and neo-liberal globalization.
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