Uri Avneri - Red and Green
Uri Avnery (från Gush Shalom) diskuterar i sin text Red and Green den bland israeler vanliga inställningen att "alla hatar oss ändå, det kvittar vad vi gör" och försöker visa att bojkott handlar om allt annat än hat. Avnery passar också på att kritisera bojkott av alla israeliska varor, till skillnad från de från ockuperade områden, och den stora förvirring som finns mellan dessa två rörelser.
Publicerad den 28.08.10 på Gush-Shalom.org
Red and Green
Channel 10, one of Israel’s three TV channels, aired a report this week that surely frightened a lot of viewers. Its title was "Who is Organizing the World-wide Hatred of Israel Movement?", and its subject: the dozens of groups in various countries which are conducting a vigorous propaganda campaign for the Palestinians and against Israel.
The activists interviewed, both male and female, young and old - quite a number of them Jews - demonstrate at supermarkets against the products of the settlements and/or of Israel in general, organize mass meetings, make speeches, mobilize trade unions, file lawsuits against Israeli politicians and generals.
According to the report, the various groups use similar methods, but there is no central leadership. It even quotes (without attribution, of course) the title of one of my recent articles, "The Protocols of the Elders of Anti-Zion" and it, too, asserts that there is no such thing. Indeed, there is no need for a world-wide organization, it says, because all over the place there is a spontaneous surge of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli feeling. Recently, following the "Cast Lead" operation and the flotilla affair, this process has gathered momentum.
In many places, the report discloses, there are now red-green coalitions: cooperation between leftist human-rights bodies and local groups of Muslim immigrants.
The conclusion of the story: this is a great danger to Israel and we must mobilize against it before it is too late.....
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