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Home Front: Culture Wars
US college boycotts Israeli products to protest Tel-Aviv policies
2012-06-07
[Iran Press TV] A US college has joined the international campaign of boycotting Israeli products to protest against Tel Aviv's policy of illegal land seizure and destruction on Palestinian lands.

The Flaming Eggplant, a student-run cafe at the Olympia Evergreen State College in Washington, has announced that students have voted for the boycott of Israeli products from illegal Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian lands to end the complicity of their college in the Israeli violation of Palestinian rights, according to Olympiabds.org.

The students say purchasing Israeli goods is in conflict with their mission which ''supports political participation and direct action to create a just and egalitarian society.''

''We are proud to join this non-violent movement to pressure Israel until it ends its human rights violations against Palestinians,'' they said in a statement.

The Flaming Eggplant is the most recent business to join the growing international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli products from Jewish settlements.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Maybe there is something in the water, like a high concentration of moronium.

As for The Flaming Eggplant, is that what passes for edgy and ironic these days? Or is eggplant the Washington state flower?
Posted by: SteveS   2012-06-07 21:01  

#9  Olympia Evergreen is the same "institution" that gave us St. Pancake (Rachel Corrie)

We also had a troll some time ago who posted from there as well.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-06-07 15:51  

#8  "Don't hold falafel with nuclear arms!"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-06-07 12:24  

#7  Boycotting Juicy goods, eh? Try this one on for size:
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-06-07 11:58  

#6  Olympia Evergreen is the same "institution" that gave us St. Pancake (Rachel Corrie). I'm sure the GDP of Israel dropped a nano-shekel with this boycott
Posted by: Frank G   2012-06-07 09:46  

#5  Does anyone know where students from Sally Struthers Technical Institute(tm) stand on this issue? Inquiring minds and all.....
Posted by: BA   2012-06-07 09:17  

#4  Compare to Patrice Lumumba U. in regards to quality of education.

At least at PLU you'd learn a second language.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2012-06-07 08:26  

#3  Compare to Patrice Lumumba U. in regards to quality of education.
Posted by: borgboy   2012-06-07 02:47  

#2  An progressive institution "praised" by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Sierra Magazine, Planet Green, "The Hipster Handbook" and the EPA. Little more need be said.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-06-07 01:07  

#1  They better return their computers and other hi-teck equipment then (if they're serious)
Seriously we need to find out why our kids are being brainwashed and clean house at the Universities promoting this crap.
Posted by: Mikey Hunt   2012-06-07 01:01  

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