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

Voyou voyou1 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 08:30:58 PDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 10:31 -0400, SA wrote:
> On the third hand, all of these objectives can be satisfied with BDS of
> *US* (or other) firms with investments in Israel or that do business
> with the Israeli mil-ind complex, so I can't understand why there's a
>need to target Marks and Spencer, a campaign that really does creep me
>out.

Marks and Spencer has investments in Israel and does business with the Israeli military-industrial complex (specifically, it sells goods made in the illegal settlements). It seems like a sensible target by your criteria, so I'm not sure why including it in a boycott campaign would creep you out.

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