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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

Interesting points here, for sure. To get back to the specific topic in hand, does anyone here agree with this boycott stance, and if so, why?

i think it's wrong in principle, but i don't know the specifics. perhaps they are only boycotting areas of military research, but somehow i suspect that those doing that work do not much care for boycotts. maybe the intention is to goad israeli intelectuals into action, but from what i can tell, israeli intellectuals are already invoved in all sorts of political activism. so i don't know who this punishes and who it rewards.

if they said "we're going to boycott their bus drivers because they vote for likud", i'd understand better. but i really have no clue who these people are, what they want, nor how they mean to achieve it.

what i'm most concerned about is the ineffectiveness of the labor party. it seems that, like with begin, only the right wing is capable of making peace when it becomes practical. people were willing to get behind rabin because he was hawkish, and the porker sharon was after all the one who evacuated gaza... but if netanyahu gets to power, jeezus, that man is a weasel and a demagogue fuck.