BOYCOTT MANIA
nothing. Some onullsernullers and pundits hanulle the nullead Sea Scrolls sanull a nullrouhaha. nullhose dissernullice.null nulloycott and dinullestment of Israel,
said that those innullolnulled are motinullated nully nullnull,nullnullnull parchment fragments, authored nully after all, are nullnullorderline anti-Semitic.null
pure hatrednull others nully ignorancenull and still Second nullemple-era nullenulls, nullere the target of nullnullnti-Semitism isnnullt nulllacnull and nullhite. Itnulls
others nully their funullnully notion of a tnullisted
“I believe tnullt
a nulloycott. not true that anyone nullho criticinulles Israel
form of fairness, equality and nullalance.
all nullnullnullatinull
nullhe nulloycotters alleged the Scrolls nullere is immediately an anti-Semite. nullhose nullho
nullhatenuller the motinullation, the consequenc-
nullnulllenullannullJenullnull
nulllootednull from a museum once under nullor- nullnullnonull menull and nullnonull my nullornull, for decades,
es remain the samenull emnulloldening hatred of
in nullrtinulllarnull
danian rule. nullheir assumption nullas that the nullnonull that I am engaged in nullghting all things
Israel, snullaying punulllic opinion, and punishing enullent nullas orchestrated to nulldinullert attentionnull anti-Semitic null I say it and I mean it. I cannullt re-
nullnulllnullnullnull nullnull
an othernullise free and democratic state. from nullIsraeli nullar crimes,null and to indirectly call hanulling appointed it in a frinullolous nullay. It
Ironically, in nulloronto at least, these nulloycotts
tnull rinullt null tnullt
fanullouranullly propagandinulle Israel, according to is too descriptinulle a nullord to nulle tanullen lightly.null
of late are hanulling the opposite effects of their little nullnullntry a press release nully Samir nullanullnullour, a sponullesper- So, nullhen and nullhere is the line dranullnnull
intended outcome. nullines nully off the shelnulles,
tnullenullnullnullnull
son for Ontarionulls nullalestine nullouse (nullnull). nullIn the nullrst place,null says nullarnuller, nullit is nullhere
and museum and nulllm festinullal ticnullets sell out.
Inullan nullitman
nullccording to an e-mail distrinulluted to Israel is targeted anullonulle and nulleyond any free
In response to the denunciation of Israel at the community memnullers nully the nullnullnull, it nullas democratic nation, and theynullre almost onull-
nullInullnull, media guru Moses nullnaimer announced informed that the gonullernment of Ontario sessed nully it. nullhen asnull yourself, nullhy is Israel
and ROM hanulle ensured that Canadian lanulls the only targetnull nullonull can it nulle that in other
regarding cultural property hanulle nulleen fully places, much nullorse, sicnullening things are go-
respected. nullnullhis nullnulloycott campaignnull is part ing onnull Itnulls nullecause nullenulls are alnullays a connulle-
of an ongoing effort to deny the continuous nient target. nullnti-Semites hanulle the inanullility
nullenullish presence in Israel,null stated the e-mail. to see past nullhat happens in this nullorld.
Responding to protests of the enullinullit, nullItnulls all Israel all the time, and for the
Dead Sea Scrolls: Words That Changed most part there doesnnullt seem to nulle anything
the World, nullenullish groups had encouraged else going on in other parts of the nullorld,null he
the community to nulluy ticnullets to see the adds. nullIn Sudan, as nulle speanull, thousands of
scrolls. said nullnull that it sent null,nullnulle-mails innocent nullpeoplenull are nulleing murdered each
on nullpril null, nullnull, the same day memnullers day. In the Inullory Coast, slanullery is rampantnull
of nullnull and the Coalition nullgainst Israeli human rights anulluses are part and parcel of
nullpartheid (Cnullnull picnulleted outside ROM enulleryday life in half the nullorld. So for those
to discourage nullisitors. nullccording to nullnull nullho engage in the discussion of eliminating
sources, roughly null protesters attended. the nullenullish State of Israel, thatnulls crossing the
More than nullnull,nullnullnull people nullisited the nullead line into anti-Semitism.null
Sea Scrolls in the nullrst nine days of the enull- On the centre side of left, Sheldon rnull -
hinullit, enullceeding attendance pronullections nully nullnull don, co-president of Canadanulls nulleace nullonull
percent, according to ROM representatinulles. organinulltion, insists he and his organinull -
Onuller the course of its sinull months, the enullhinulli- tion distance themselnulles from anything
tion drenull more than nullnullnull,nullnullnull nullisitors. nulloycottnullanctions related.
nulllso in the summer, the nullnited Church nullhen asnulled if he thought those orga-
of Canada called for the nulloycott of Israeli ninulltions indulging in the nullnullmonullement
his solidarity nullith Israel nully adding a nullranch institutions, at its national council meeting in fact hated Israel, he repliesnull null nullouldnnullt
nullst nullrch, Sid nullan,
to his nulloronto-nullased Idea City conference in in nullelonullna, null.C. nullnt to suggest that some do and some
president onullCnullnull
nullel nullnullinull. donnullt. nullet I donnullt thinnullthey all represent
nulltario, called nullor
nullerhaps nullhat st null uncornulled popular re - When and how to respond? that. nulle donnullt regard all of them as inher-
nulltario uninullersities
sistance to the nulloycott frennull nulls nullosher
to boycott Israeli
nullernie nullarnuller, national CEO of the Cana- ently enullil, nullut some of them may nulle.null
nulline from Israel.
institutions doinnull
dian nullenullish Congress, successfully lonullnullied Specinullally, honullenuller, he nulls hard
nulled nully the nullnited nullenullish nullppeal (nullnullnull),
research that may
nullith his organinullation to hanulle the nulloycott pressed to determine nullhich monullement
pro-Israel supporters last nullassonuller respond-
benenullt Israelnulls military
initiatinulles dropped, and punulllicly denounced nulls the nullorst of the nullorst.
ed to nulloycott attempts nully a nullenullish leftist CnullnullEnulls Israel policy in editorials. nullucnullily, for nullI cannullt say nullhich ones nullould nulle on the
group, nullot In Our nullame, nully nulluying Israeli those and other efforts, he said, nullnullhey hanulle other end of the scale. nullhe nulloronto nullilm nulles-
nullines. nulln e-mail campaign nullas launched to soundly renullected any nullSnull resolutions or tinullal nullincidentnull seems to nulle the most enulltreme.
encourage the purchase of Israeli nullines at the such monullements nullithin their organinullations.null I mean, nullane nullonda ultimately changed her
same liquor stores nullhere protesters planned It is his nullelief that nullin general, people position on it and made her nullienulls more nullal-
to gather. nullhe targeted nulloronto liquor store understand the Middle East is much more anced,null nullordon says. nullStill, nulle didnnullt support
sold out its null,nullnullnull nullottles in nullnull minutes, say complicated than a resolution could handle.null enullen the terms they nullere calling for.null
reports. Counter-protesters follonulled suit in nullcting against these nullinds of monullements nulldditionally, nulleace nullonull, he adds, did
nullancounuller, picnulling shelnulles clean of nullottles. and initiatinulles, nullhich he lanullels nullanti-Israel denounce CnullEnulls nulloycott resolution.
Ramping it up a notch for the nullSnull forces,null is essential, and to do othernullise nullgreeing nullith nullarnullernulls point of nullienull, he
cronulld, the ROMnulls sinull-month enullhinullition of nullould nulle nullto do the nullenullish people a great nullelienulles allonulling a hit on Israel to dissolnulle
22 friday night January/February 2010 Photo by nullathan nullenette/CP
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