[lbo-talk] Palestine Think Tank: Jeff Blankfort - Chomsky and Palestine: Asset or Liability?

Chuck Munson chuck0munson at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 22:17:15 PDT 2010


On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> But, aside from that, it's weird for Americans to call for a boycott of Israel when our government supplies the IDF with money and weapons and diplomatic cover for whatever barbarity they commit.
>

I don't understand why this is weird. When we were protesting South Africa's apartheid policies, we used divestment against all companies doing business in South Africa. The U.S. government also supported the apartheid regime, although not to the extent that the U.S. props up Israel.

Chuck



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