Robin Shepherd
Robin Shepherd Online
02 March '10
This week saw the start of the annual festival of bigotry known as “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW). In the UK, universities from the London School of Economics, University College London (alma mater of the would be Detroit panty bomber) to Oxford join forces with places of “learning” in more than 40 cities across the world. The aim is to deligitimise Israel with a view to the Jewish state’s eventual destruction.
But it is not all going according to plan. In Canada, there are signs that the organisers may already have run into some embarrassing problems. As the National Post reports in a scathing editorial which rightly describes the event as “an odious and bigoted annual ritual” a motion denouncing Israeli Apartheid Week has been unanimously passed (even leftist members of parliament supported it) in the Ontario provincial parliament. This is a serious blow since Canada has been one of the worst offenders in the Western world in terms of anti-Israeli bigotry and has traditionally been at the forefront of IAW campaigning.
While it is still early days, what is going on in Canada should serve as an inspiration to those opposed to anti-Israeli extremism worldwide. Careful and consistent campaigning in favour of reason and decency over Israel can pay off, leaving the opposing camp looking isolated and obsessive.
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So what do you call one-race motorways, land grab on a mass scale, lack of basic services to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs, who are citizens of Israel (if the name doesn't yet explains it).
ReplyDeleteThis is not aimed at wiping Israel off the map. It is an attempt to save Israel from the bigotry within itself. THe participation by many Israeli academics in the apartheid week, that is organized in many countries, is one sign that it is not a one-sided Hamas gala.
There are no one-race motorways,including 443, which highlights your lack of basic knowledge in this area. Arabs, Moslems, Druze,citizens, as well as non-citizens, use all roads by the 100's of thousands daily, throughout the country. PA citizens have restrictions outside of the PA, but there are no one race motorways anywhere except in the surrounding Arab countries.
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