Jesse:
I think this Andrew Steele post is a fantastic exposition on why the anti-Israel boycotts we've seen from CUPE and so forth are ridiculous. He explains simply and clearly why they're a terrible idea, from the standpoint of the United Church's recent proposals. Money quote:
...it buys into a false logic that the Middle East is an easy situation of white and black hats, that the state of Israel is inherently bad, and that a one-sided boycott will produce peace. At the heart of this "boycott Israel" movement is the severing of dialogue between Israel and Palestine, a hardening of positions into camps of stubborn isolation that is the opposite of peace.
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