queer settlers claim Starbucks

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Wed Aug 21 22:48:01 PDT 2002


This is a brilliant idea for political theatre. There's just one teensy thing wrong. It would be a lot funnier and easier to get behind if their slogan was Quit the Occupied Territories. Quit Palestine, sadly, is essentially a prancy version of Throw Them Into the Sea. Hopefully that was a fuzzy minded artsy fartsy oversight and they don't really mean that. But it's reinforced at several points. Their humorous little fable is about Israel, not about the territories. And Howard Schultz (owner of Starbucks) isn't being boycotted for using his money to support settlements, but for being a rich supporter of Israel. And at first sight that seems to be true of all other companies list at the link they give (www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-israel.html) The people there seem to be against the "zionist entity" period. And boy are they boycott crazy.

That Cockburn article I had no trouble with, personally. But this unfortunately I do.

Michael



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