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| UK journalists boycott Israel over ‘IDF aggression in Gaza’ |
| 2007-04-15 |
| The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) of Britain and Ireland decided during its annual meeting in Birmingham on Friday to boycott Israeli products in protest of the Second Lebanon War and “Israeli aggression in Gaza.” The resolution, which passed by a vote of 66 to 54, called for a boycott of Israeli goods “similar to those boycotts in the struggles against apartheid South Africa led by trade unions and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to demand sanctions be imposed on Israel by the British government and the United Nations." The announcement of the passage of the resolution drew a combination of applause and gasps, the Guardian said. According to the Guardian, the NUJ national executive committee has been instructed to support organizations including the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, Jews for Justice in Palestine and the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding, the Guardian reported. Also : British 'silently boycott' Israeli academics |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #6 Just one more news org made up of rejects. Nothing to see here folks. Move along now. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-04-15 20:56 |
| #5 There has long been an undercurrent in England of hating Jews as much as their was in Germany before WWII. They've just not had a popular leader like Hitler to focus that hatred. But at intervals since about 1200 AD, they have periodically attacked the Jews. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_England |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-04-15 18:57 |
| #4 Keep boycotting Israel and the NUJ will be devoid of members. |
| Posted by: Injun Slating9349 2007-04-15 15:55 |
| #3 I suggest they all head on down to Gaza and provide more live coverage. As usual, gulping down camels whole and choking on mosquitoes. I haven't noticed the IDF chopping off anyone's head of late. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-15 15:33 |
| #2 The national Union of Journalists also cited the Jewish aggressions against the Germanic peoples of the 1920s and 1930s. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2007-04-15 15:07 |
| #1 On the day that a Palestinian group announced they had killed a BBC reporter |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-04-15 14:04 |