Comments on: Strathclyde Students Win Agreement

By: 99

99 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:07:43 +0000

Lest there be any question, here's the video.

By: 99

99 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:52:21 +0000

He was killed by the police. And even the most massive nonviolent protests are things the power structure has learned to ignore, and make ignorable by the rest of the public. Gandhi said that if you cannot go smilingly into a hail of bullets when they have wronged you, then you better hit back, and hit back hard. Gandhi hated cowards the most, and he chose Satyagraha because it was the mode of resistance with FEWER casualties, not none.

By: m.idrees

m.idrees — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:03:15 +0000

How about leading by example Naomi? You do seem to know the value of spectacular sacrifice. I suggest you douse yourself in gasoline and set yourself alight in a public place, say some place like a shopping mall with plenty of CCTV cameras, so that even if the TV refuses to air it, the footage will ultimately find its way to YouTube. That surely will awaken Israel to its evil ways, and shame it into withdrawing from Palestinian land.

We must practice the tactics of Mahatma Ghandi who would lie down in the streets and let the British colonialists trample his people to death.

I think you are talking about Ben Kingsley. Gandhi did no such thing.

By: Naomi Idrissi

Naomi Idrissi — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:36:42 +0000

Sofia M. is out to lunch. If she thinks those fascist protestors in the City who killed 1 person and trashed the RBS building are fit to be emulated, then she has another thing coming to her. All boycott demonstrations have to be non-violent. All the Palestinians in Gaza must be non-violent. We must practice the tactics of Mahatma Ghandi who would lie down in the streets and let the British colonialists trample his people to death. In this manner, the British raj became so ashamed of themselves that they were forced to give up India. Please, people, open your hearts to the way of peace and let not your souls be corrupted by devilish and anarchic violence.

By: sofia m.

sofia m. — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:17:24 +0000

As far as I’m concerned, we have a lot to learn from the street action in London during the G-20 summit. Strthclyde students involved in the boycott movement should now link up with the professional activists in the Palestinian and left movements and begin massive street occupations of government offices which allow Israel zionist goods to be sold in Scotland and the UK as a whole. agree with Mick Napier we ought to start occupying as well those pro-zionist and anti-Gaza banks and insurance companies like Lloyds to make a meaningful impact. All those counselling moderation and selective boycotting are, in my view, counter-revolutionaries and reactionaries.

By: m.idrees

m.idrees — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:10:25 +0000

Clearely you haven’t learned much in your place of ‘learning’ if you think that the invasion, occupation, and oppression of a people enabled by your tax dollars is someone elses business. I’m sure the Nazis would have liked nothing more than for other people to go about learning and researching while they went about their merry task of extermination. Today the progeny of the Nazis beats its breast about a past over which it has no influece, while participating, whether actively or passively through silence, in the oppression of a people, the Palestinians, whose tragedy is a direct consequence of the deeds of their genocidal ancestors.

By: Student

Student — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:57:02 +0000

“We have to get serious. A strategy needs to be developed to bring a halt to all Israeli imports into this country and all British exports to Israel which definitely aid their war economy. Only a multi-party colossal demonstration in the streets of London of hundreds of thousands of people will do the trick, accompanied by the shutdown of the Departments of Trade and Industry in this country which are deeply complicit in Israeli war trade.”

Are you insane? This is meant to be a place of learning and research and not some pawn in your conflict with Israel.

By: betty hunter

betty hunter — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:44:59 +0000

I lead the British Palestine Solidarity Campaign and am heavily involved in the boycott issue. The reason we are not succeeding after so many years of rallies and picketing is that there are certain elements in our movement that are holding us back from tackling the serious issues. I refer to the imports of Israeli capital equipment into our country. Machinery of all sorts–including data entry and sorting machines, calculators, computers, microchips, medical devices, imaging equipment, robotic aids, jewellery polishing equipment and so forth are flooding into this country from Israel in the amount of at least 195 million pounds yearly. I have personally sought to put a stop to this with the assistance of the Department of Trade but have been constantly thwarted by the machinations of the powers-that-be on our board of directors, many of whom are Socialist professors or trade union organizers who do not wish to rock the boat. Apparently, they feel that there would be a public backlash against them if the British economy were deprived of goods produced by Israeli companies profiting from the war crimes of the zionist regime in Tel Aviv. Now, I put it to you, how cowardly are we becoming? Isn’t it really a matter of divesting ourselves of the creature comforts provided by the high-tech Israeli economy? Can we not as a society diversify our imports to Japan and Korea, for Heaven’s sakes?

I don’t wish to appear gloomy but I am afraid the boycott of Israeli goods has become a joke in many circles. Imbeciles picket Tesco and Marks and Spencer, spray-painting Israeli wine bottles and hummus, causing absolutely no dent in Israel’s massive billion pound trade with the UK in capital equipment, diamonds and pharmaceuticals. The symbolic importance of targeting minor trade items from Israel of little value is dubious at best, useless at worst. We have to stop making ourselves feel good over mutilating Israeli consumer products. One of my associates saw a music teacher from Wanstead tearing Israeli panty hose at Harrods. What utter pretentious stupidity! We have to get serious. A strategy needs to be developed to bring a halt to all Israeli imports into this country and all British exports to Israel which definitely aid their war economy. Only a multi-party colossal demonstration in the streets of London of hundreds of thousands of people will do the trick, accompanied by the shutdown of the Departments of Trade and Industry in this country which are deeply complicit in Israeli war trade.

And we must purge our movement of the Socialists and Marxists who are holding us back. Thank you, Strathclyde students for awakening your elders in the boycott trenches to what can be accomplished on a heroic scale if only we put our minds and hearts to it.

By: diana neslen

diana neslen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:51:17 +0000

The real hoaxers in these postings are the Finks and Napiers of this world. They pretend to lead a boycott of Israel products but in reality carry on with ridiculous street antics, play-acting as real revolutionaries. When they are called upon by Palestinian civil society to boycott so-called zionist wonder cures, they turn tail and hide. Instead, to salve their consciences, they spray-paint Israeli figs from the West Bank at Tesco or interrupt zionist musicians at concerts. Big deal! They are publicity-hounds, no more. I say it’s high time to purge these fraudsters from our boycott movement. All Strathclyde students should occupy the premises of the Jews for Boycotting Israel Goods organization and the Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign to let them know in no uncertain terms how treacherous their actions are. I am fed up with these stupid anarchists desecrating our holy revolutionary cause.

By: Israeli student

Israeli student — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:09:13 +0000

U hate-mongers are such hypocrites! Better to boycott fascist Hamas jihadists than to pick on tiny Israel. All of Britain considers u old fools. My advice to Napier: start pressurizing NHS to stop buying 300 million pounds of zionist medicines every year.