Comments on: NUJ votes to boycott Israeli goods http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/04/17/nuj-votes-to-boycott-israeli-goods/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:25:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Rob http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/04/17/nuj-votes-to-boycott-israeli-goods/#comment-46971 Rob Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:51:27 +0000 http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/04/17/nuj-votes-to-boycott-israeli-goods/#comment-46971 Hossam, most NUJ members do not agree with the boycott; it is one sided and disproportionate. Why not boycott China over human rights, Russia over Chechnya, Sudan over Dafur? I could go on. And why not boycott Syria, Iran or Egypt over their lack of a free press and jailing of journalists that do not support their regimes? I must say that your cartoon equating the murder of 6 million Jewish men women and children with a the Israel Palestinian conflict is once again disproportionate and weakens your argument. It is characteristic of the far right racists we have in Britain, ones that would attack you for the colour of your skin, ones that would have pleasure beating you up because you are not white. I suggest you read Martin Gilbert's book on the Holocaust and if you publish the same cartoon or make similar comparisons you will have not understood a thing. Rob Hossam,

most NUJ members do not agree with the boycott; it is one sided and disproportionate.

Why not boycott China over human rights, Russia over Chechnya, Sudan over Dafur? I could go on.

And why not boycott Syria, Iran or Egypt over their lack of a free press and jailing of journalists that do not support their regimes?

I must say that your cartoon equating the murder of 6 million Jewish men women and children with a the Israel Palestinian conflict is once again disproportionate and weakens your argument. It is characteristic of the far right racists we have in Britain, ones that would attack you for the colour of your skin, ones that would have pleasure beating you up because you are not white.

I suggest you read Martin Gilbert’s book on the Holocaust and if you publish the same cartoon or make similar comparisons you will have not understood a thing.

Rob

]]> By: Hossam el-Hamalawy http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/04/17/nuj-votes-to-boycott-israeli-goods/#comment-44672 Hossam el-Hamalawy Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:44:08 +0000 http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/04/17/nuj-votes-to-boycott-israeli-goods/#comment-44672 Do you have some survey, I haven't seen, conducted among British journalists on what do they think of Latuff's cartoons? Please email it to me. Do you have some survey, I haven’t seen, conducted among British journalists on what do they think of Latuff’s cartoons? Please email it to me.

]]> By: Elijah Zarwan http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/04/17/nuj-votes-to-boycott-israeli-goods/#comment-44671 Elijah Zarwan Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:39:27 +0000 http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/04/17/nuj-votes-to-boycott-israeli-goods/#comment-44671 dude, i don't think the british journos would want to be associated with latuff's cartoon dude, i don’t think the british journos would want to be associated with latuff’s cartoon

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