tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168112031264856799.post9206082338245221545..comments2023-05-30T00:32:50.415-07:00Comments on ALAH: Arab Lesbians Against Hate: Palestinians to Methodists: "We dont need your stinking charity!"Fatimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440284278736820250noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168112031264856799.post-50310305943982693222012-05-03T09:00:01.434-07:002012-05-03T09:00:01.434-07:00Also read : http://www.divestthis.com/2012/05/theh...Also read : http://www.divestthis.com/2012/05/theh-methodists-say-no.html<br /><br />"...yesterday’s rejection of BDS by the largest progressive Mainline church (the fifth such rejection by the Methodists and Presbyterians in the last six years – never mind the other Mainline churches that either rejected divestment or never gave it the time of day) so significant. For if the BDSers themselves insist that support for their efforts within Mainline Protestantism legitimizes their claims to representing progressive values, the overwhelming rejecting of BDS by those very institutions illustrates that boycott and divestment continue to be embraced by nothing more than a small (albeit noisy) unrepresentative minority. <br /><br /><br />It was intriguing to watch the run-up to yesterday’s vote (as well as coverage of the vote itself) play out on Twitter. Like most online BDS debates, the boycotters dominated the airwaves; spending weeks quoting scripture, painting pictures of unvarnished Palestinians suffering, making their usual comparisons to Selma and Apartheid South Africa, and insisting that divestment was an obvious (indeed, the only) moral choice the Methodists could possibly make.<br /><br /><br />As the vote got closer, language turned harsher, with pleas for charity and witness soon replaced by an insistence that any vote against the BDS position would represent a betrayal of both man and God, punishable by fire and brimstone. And when their calls to reject the majority opinion (which replaced divestment language with language of positive investment and engagement) and embrace a minority opinion (that left the original divestment language intact) went unheeded, up popped the familiar tweet of someone who was stunned when all votes turned against divestment (having followed one-sided Twitter feeds that seemed to imply an impending BDS victory)...."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168112031264856799.post-83779054756871146612012-05-03T07:26:31.372-07:002012-05-03T07:26:31.372-07:00Final score Divestment amendment loses 628 - 303. ...Final score Divestment amendment loses 628 - 303. Not even close.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168112031264856799.post-87923693831083543822012-04-30T21:40:39.785-07:002012-04-30T21:40:39.785-07:00read the elder of Ziyon. he writes "
"I ...read the elder of Ziyon. he writes "<br />"I have noted numerous times, including in the linked post, that people who claim to be pro-Palestinian are almost always really anti-Israel and show no real concern for Palestinians. I have also pointed out that while Zionists have the tendency of trying to find win-win solutions, Arabs and the anti-Israel crowd tend to think in terms of the conflict being a zero-sum game. And I have also shown that what the anti-Israel crowd accuses Israel of is almost always something that they are far more guilty of - and they are projecting their own hate onto Israel."<br /><br />http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/04/ben-white-proves-hypocrisy-of-anti.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com