So some libtard union in Canada thinks it is inappropriate to respond when someone punches you in the mouth, by kicking their ass? What a bunch of pussies. I KNOW these canuckleheads do not represent the majority of the residents of the Great White North. Right?
University workers in the Canadian Union of Public Employees have passed a controversial motion calling for an academic boycott of Israel, and union members from at least one Toronto university are planning to pressure their school to cut any financial ties with the country.
Although the motion didn’t call for a boycott of individual Israeli academics – as some union members had suggested last month – it encourages union locals to publicly discuss boycotting Israeli universities and to push Canadian universities to end any research or investments that could benefit the Israeli army.
Members of Jewish organizations say the motion sets a dangerous precedent by singling out Israel and vow to keep fighting it.
Delegates representing university workers in CUPE’s Ontario branch, which represents 200,000 government and other public sector workers, voted on the motion at a meeting in Windsor.
The committee, which represents the union’s university workers, called on the union to develop an education campaign on what its proponents label Israel’s “apartheid” practices, such as building a wall around Palestinian territory and invading the Gaza Strip in December; asks the union to back an international campaign of sanctions and boycotts against the country and asks the national union to start researching Canadian connections to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The boycott, however, stopped short of calling for Canadian universities to ban Israeli academics, an idea previously floated by CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan.
“(We want to) do what we can in a peaceful way to end the occupation of Palestine,” Ryan said, adding that the idea of the motion is to boycott research that helps the Israeli military and to investigate any ties between Canadian universities and Israel, not to ban individual Israeli professors.
How the motion is put into place will be left up to individual union locals, he said. At least one Toronto local was planning to support the boycott.
“This is a disastrous and horrific situation that’s developed (in Israel), especially in light of recent events in Gaza,” said Tyler Shipley, spokesperson for CUPE local 3903, which represents contract faculty and teaching assistants at York University. “It’s just unconscionable for us not to take some sort of action.”
Shipley says his local will be pushing York to sever its financial ties to Israel. Local 3903 will also be backing the events of Israeli Apartheid Week, an annual series of lectures and panel discussions opposing Israel’s presence in the Palestinian territories, scheduled for next week.
“It’s important that we get our institution here to grapple with its ties to the Israeli state,” Shipley said. “This is a colonial state, this is a state that has been perpetrating unspeakable human rights abuses.”
Jewish groups and some of CUPE’s own unions opposed the motion.
“Here we have a situation where a once-proud union has sunk so low as to have a small group put forward a motion that is, on its face, bigoted and discriminatory and anti-Jewish,” said Bernie M. Farber, chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress, who argues that the motion is discriminatory because it targets a single country. He notes that the union isn’t, for instance, calling for a boycott of Sudan over alleged human rights abuses in Darfur.
“The sole target is Jews, is Israel,” he said.
Link to full article.
These imbeciles are a joke! When are they going to pull their heads out of their colons, and realize there has NEVER been a nation called Palestine??? How stupid can people let themselves become? Why is it people like this never say one peep about muslims killing muslims in Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc… ? Nope, no anti-semitism or moral relativism here. Nothing to see now, move along, be a good dhimmi and go about your business.
Related posts:
- Ottawa – Canadian Minister slams proposed boycott of Israel
- German Unions reject boycott of Israel
- Hamas vows to keep killing, while Jimmy Carter calls on Israel to appease them
- Gaza prompts boycott in Malaysia
- Canada defends discrimination against tourism to Israel
- Hamas runs out of rockets, suicide bombers; calls for cease fire
- UPDATED – OUTRAGE! Tyson foods dumps Labor Day paid holiday, will now celebrate Eid al-Fitr – BOYCOTT TYSON FOODS
- Despite ceasefire, Hamas continues firing rockets into Israel
- Gaza: Hamas calls Holocaust a lie, Israeli propaganda tool
- Egypt asks Israel to honor ceasefire broken by Hamas
