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An outdoor mural in Birmingham by an award-winning Muslim artist |
Cosmopolitan Birmingham, Britain's second city, and the largest local authority in Europe, has launched a major campaign against Veolia. There are four videos on YouTube (uploaded by Sabiha Mahmoud) showing that meeting of Palestine Solidarity Campaign stalwarts at which this latest initiative in the BDS armoury ("Bin Veolia") was launched.
A cosmopolitan panel included controversial leftwing former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister Clare Short, who chaired proceedings, and at one stage commented that although American Jews tend to be liberals, the USA is the hardest country for the BDS movement to penetrate owing to the power of the (well-funded) Israel Lobby.
Needless to say, talk of "apartheid" and "persecution of Palestinians" with the inevitable obscene comparisons with South Africa escaped the lips of the BDS faithful (who included a female panellist representing Pax Christi).
During the discussion of the glories of the BDS movement at the end, one of the speakers from the floor, a Labour councillor called, I believe, Stewart Stacey, declared:
"... And most of all, brothers and sisters, I haven't bought any Jewi - er - Israeli produce knowingly since Sabra and Shatila"Whoops! Tut, tut.
Is Bin Veolia any relation to Bin Laden?
ReplyDeleteStewart Stacey let the cat out of the bag - that's what this BDS movement is about - hatred and bigotry.
ReplyDeleteBirmingham is so pro-Palestinian, what have they done for the 500 plus Palestinians killed by the Syrians these last few months, and the tens of thousands who have been displaced by the Syrians?
What a joke these people in BDS are. They simply need to remove the "D".
Any chance of getting Stewart Stacey's comment confirmed by another source? I do not doubt you but "It was up on Daphne Anson's blog" isn't going to pursued so very many - it might go the way of the original Daphne on Clydeside
ReplyDeleteIt's on one of the four videos, CS - the third or fourth one, probably the fourth. I hyperlink to the first in the text.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjbFznke3J4
ReplyDeleteThank you - yes quite a slip up
ReplyDeleteWhat is more damning is that they were all quite happy about it.
And interesting that the Jewish slip up was on Sabra & Shatila - Christian Arabs killing Muslim Arabs & so he boycotts the Jews oh yes he means Israel does he not
Yes, indeed, Colin - his remarks were followed by applause.
DeleteI too noted the irony re Sabra and Shatila.