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

[JAMES Heartfield]

>* Apparently, Doug, James, Chomsky, et al, want Palestinians to fight an *
>* abstraction called American imperialism rather than resist the *
>* tangible things that control their everyday existences *
**
Apparent to you, maybe, but cryptic to me. We were talking about the tactics
to be adopted in the west, not in occupied Palestine.

On Joseph's point, Tesco has been floated now, but it was founded by Jack
Cohen, and in British eyes will always be a Jewish shop (legend has it that
it is named for his daughter Tessa Cohen, but I could not swear to that).

Funnily enough, when my grandfather worked at Marks and Spencers, before the
2WW, he was favoured with a job at the counter, because he was fair and
blue-eyed, while swarthier Britons would be posted in the stores, out of
sight.

Still, I say it is creepy singling out shops for their 'Israeli'
connections. Promoting anti-Jewish feeling in Britain is not something that
will help the Palestinians.