government bans council procurement boycotts

[Pickman's model]

.'. no local government boycotts of the zionist entity

Councils banned from 'unnecessary' boycotts

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

.'. no local government boycotts of the zionist entity

Councils banned from 'unnecessary' boycotts

You can't even bring yourself to use its proper name, can you?

 

[Pickman's model]

You can't even bring yourself to use its proper name, can you?

Yeh. Have you a view of the matter at hand or are you seeking solely to rake over the ashes of auld arguments?

 

[ViolentPanda]

You can't even bring yourself to use its proper name, can you?

Don't you believe in plain speech?
The state of Israel is a Zionist entity, founded by Zionists and built on an explicitly-Zionist ideology that transgresses nearly 2,000 years of Judaistic history by returning Jews to Zion before Yahweh has commanded Jews to return.
Now, I'm not an adherent of scripture, nor religious, but I never fail to be disgusted by the number of religious Jews who set aside scripture when the opportunity for cheap stolen land comes up. Zionism is a cancer within Jewish culture, and the Zionist entity fuels that cancer.

 

[phildwyer]

Zionism is a cancer within Jewish culture

How many of your co-religionists share this opinion, would you say?

 

[Ungrateful]

How many of your co-religionists share this opinion, would you say?

Well I know at least one <waves hand in the air>

 

[phildwyer]

Well I know at least one <waves hand in the air>

Maybe the UK is different, but anti-Zionist Jews seem vanishingly rare in the USA. It wasn't always that way though...

 

[ViolentPanda]

How many of your co-religionists share this opinion, would you say?

I don't have any co-religionists. I'm a Jew, not a Yahweh-worshipper. The former state does not depend on the latter membership. As for how many Jews share my opinion, a middling minority in the UK, mostly seculars rather than religiouses.

 

[not-bono-ever]

....

 

[bimble]

Don't you believe in plain speech?
The state of Israel is a Zionist entity, founded by Zionists and built on an explicitly-Zionist ideology that transgresses nearly 2,000 years of Judaistic history by returning Jews to Zion before Yahweh has commanded Jews to return.
Now, I'm not an adherent of scripture, nor religious, but I never fail to be disgusted by the number of religious Jews who set aside scripture when the opportunity for cheap stolen land comes up. Zionism is a cancer within Jewish culture, and the Zionist entity fuels that cancer.

I agree with you, broadly speaking. But this cancer has causes. I'd suggest that "jewish culture" means not a lot at the moment without it be seen through the lens of the 20th century history of European jews' experience. Which led to the paranoid aggressive dysfunctional state that is Israel. I have to go there next month (after not going for many years) and am following the news with interest, the mass protests around the demolished outposts, the attempt at legalising same.

 

[shygirl]

Oh, so organisations can only boycott government-fucking-approved sanctions according to its foreign policy? I despair, I really do.

Just had a massive row with a friend who's off to a Kab

 

[shygirl]

to a Kabballah convention in Tel Aviv. Not because he's going, that's his choice, but because he attempted to justify the evil that is the state of Israel, the measures used against Palestinians (Israelis are under constant attack from Palestinians) and the land grabbing (it was historically their land). Don't come into my home and be a fucking apologist for something that I believe is reprehensible.

 

[stavros]

The article itself doesn't mention Israel, so I took it to mean they can boycott G4S, Serco, Crapita, Atos, et al. Not for religious reasons, but on account of repeated shitness.