Wednesday, May 6, 2009
They tried...and got a disturbing percentage of the vote...but in Canada I suppose we should be grateful: Co-op members vote down ban of Israeli-made goods
Members of the outdoor goods retailer Mountain Equipment Co-Op voted down a controversial resolution to boycott Israeli-made products at the chain's annual general meeting Wednesday night.
Jubilant participants leaving the meeting said the motion wasn't even close to being passed. MEC spokesman Tim Southam was more restrained, saying that while he couldn't release the exact margin by which the motion was defeated, it was definitely "by more than half."
The motion was proposed by BC Teachers for Peace and Global Action (PAGE), a group affiliated with the B.C. Teachers' Federation...
Teachers, teach thyselves.
A humorous take on the proposed vote: Getting one's knickers in a twist over Israel
And here's a nice try at NYU: Anti-Israel event fraudulently planned, then canceled, at NYU
New York University reports student received permission to host event on climate change, then hung flyers for conference on 'Hidden History of Zionism: The Road to Gaza's Killing Fields'
An anti-Israel student event was planned, and then canceled Monday, at New York University (NYU). The student, who has asked to hold an event unrelated to Israel, was actually planning an event to explore Israeli "brutality" against the Palestinians.
After receiving permission to host an event at NYU on May 4, based on a proposal for a forum on climate change, the student responsible then hung flyers for a conference on "The Hidden History of Zionism: The Road to Gaza's Killing Fields," to be hosted by the International Socialist Organization, an anti-war Marxist group...
...In response, the university confirmed that the event had been canceled but emphasized that this was because of the fraudulent manner in which it was undertaken.
They added that they had originally thought the flyer was not real because "there is no official, recognized group at NYU called the International Socialist Organization, and because the space was not reserved for the event listed on the flyer (but rather) for a forum on climate change... being conducted in conjunction with an academic department.
Upon being contacted about the event, the university they "called in the student who reserved the space (who) acknowledged that the forum was not going to be about climate change but, instead, about the topic on the flyer, and that the academic department listed on the reservation had nothing to do with the event...
They're getting tricky these haters...
If they had any guts ... they'd kick out the students for fraud. Doesn't NYU have some rules about academic integrity?
The ironic part is that, had the student said up-front how hateful and outrageous his topic was, he'd likely have had no problem proceeding.
Anti-Israel sentiment is MUCH higher in Canada than it is here in the U.S.
BHg