Metro Responds to BDS Stickers: ‘This Does Not Reflect Our Opinions’ - B'nai Brith Canada
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Oct. 11, 2018 By Daniel Koren Manager, Media Relations & Communications B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Metro Ontario Inc., the corporation that oversees the chain of Metro grocery stores across the province, is decrying the anti-Israel, pro-BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) stickers that were recently discovered at two of its Toronto locations. “This signage was […]
  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    On Thursday, Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada, condemned the perpetrator(s) of the crime.

    “Not only did they deface private property, they are promoting information that is egregiously false on many, many levels. First, genetic, archaeological and historical evidence indisputably confirm that Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel. Second, the State of Israel is not ‘pursuing the violent dispossession’ of Palestinians.

    “On the contrary, it is Palestinian leaders who continue to promote violence, destruction and an end to the Jewish state rather than working towards a just and peaceful end to the conflict.”

    Don’t give them the fucking click.

    • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      I mean yea, Jews are indeed indigenous to the Levant. The problem with Zionism is that it denies the same reality for all the other peoples living there and declares that only Jews have a right to a nation state there. Palestinians are also indigenous to the Levant. The Druze, the Samaritans, the Bedouins, etc. also.

      Who has claim? No one has claim. All have claim!

  • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
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    2 months ago

    I had a discussion about BDS with a friend’s husband around that time, and he basically said that he didn’t think it was fair to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel because the people didn’t deserve to be scapegoated and economically harmed for the choices of their government.

    I was completely in awe of how confidently he spoke when he didn’t even know the basics of Israel’s colonial/genocidal history or what BDS was. He didn’t even know what an ethnostate was or that it’s morally fucked up to want one. I don’t talk to him anymore, because wow. Reminded me a lot of people who are anti-BLM because they don’t like loud black people.

    • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      The thing to remember is that BDS is not a revenge inflicted to punish immoral individuals. It is not demonization and it is not bullying.

      BDS is a nonviolent pressure tactic to get the Israeli government to change policies. It is giving an argument to civil society organizations to say “is the apartheid worth it for us?” and “can’t we just be a normal country?”.