Saturday, May 26, 2007
Back to boycotting. For prior background, see previous series of posts, linked here: NY Javits Center architect says he backs security barrier.
Now: British architects join anti-Israel fray
The architects, including Will Alsop, Terry Farrell, Richard MacCormac, Royal Institute of British Architects president Jack Pringle and president-elect Sunand Prasad, have signed a petition organized by the group Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine.
"APJP asserts that the actions of our fellow professionals working with these enterprises are clearly unethical, immoral and contravene universally recognized professional codes of conduct," a spokesman said. "We ask the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA) to meet their professional obligations to declare their opposition to this inhuman occupation."...
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Oh for G*d's sake.
The hypocrisy of these boycotts is almost beyond description.
Moral blindness indeed.
This is destructive. This is an attack on a progressive, creative culture that somehow managed to survive an almost unbearable catastrophe, and in support of what?
What will replace it? What is being served here?
The moral and legal questions aren't even nearly as clear as the knee-jerk reflexive condemnation of "the occupation" would make them out to be. The Jewish narrative is utterly ignored as well as the nature of the war against Israel.
AAAARRGGHHHHHHHH.
Beyond that where does one start comparing British behavior to Israel's? During the bombing of Dresden they incinerated 50,000 people in one night. Yet they refused to bomb the camps, which might have saved some lives.
Why?
It's funny, because everytime I run into a Brit in person, they seem to be, at worst, neutral in their attitudes towards Israel. It's only their vapid and vacuous "leadership" that immerses itself in the leftist anti-Semitism of the pro-Palestinian movement.
BHG