Apartheid Supporter ‘New Seasons’
(PORTLAND, Ore.) – With all of the stories about terrible things taking place in the world, it is good to know that flash mobs are out there to embarrass the holy living sh*t out of retailers that want to grease their palms with blood money from Israel. It’s no secret Israel isn’t just slightly over the line in terms of human rights violations and highly documented war crimes, the Zionist government of Netanyahu is almost primeval in its treatment of human beings. The folks at New Seasons in Portland know what is going on, and their stance in support of oppressive Israeli occupation is baffling.
We learned yesterday that Israel’s government may reserve their most vicious public assaults for American Jews who dare to voice support for human rights. (see: Israel’s Crap Treatment of an American Jew)
Many of us actually understand that the goal of peace can never be reached under the current system. George W. Bush turned the U.S. into a nation guilty of committing Genocide.
After all, Iraq is an unjustified conflict against a civilian population that has a lot of oil. One point five million human lives eradicated by the U.S. led forces? Just imagine how greed transcends right down to the thought that fewer people mean more resources for the nation committing the acts. Fewer human beings to disagree? I saw two types of people up close in Iraq; they were either highly compliant, or bound, hooded and subdued.
The Portland BDS Coalition Mobs New Seasons Grocery demanding a total Boycott of Israeli Products.
I can go on forever about this, instead I will let you enjoy this super cool video featuring a unique concept known as ‘humanity’ that is often the missing guest. The people in this Portland, Oregon flash mob carry the virtues of what is right in this world, they are drawing attention to what is wrong. That is what we are supposed to do as human beings.
The U.S. right wing nearly proclaims the country’s ‘Christianity’ while at the same espousing a system of religions freedom, which is supposed to exist. However President Bush compared the war on Iraq to the Crusades (two wholly unjustified extended periods of bloodshed). Then, just as now, Genocide always happens for the simple reason; because of religious hegemony and oppression.
Israel, like Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, admits that religious freedom is denied – it is written as such. By national doctrine they exist to serve the needs of only one faith, i.e. the ‘Jewish State of Israel’. The same goes for the ‘Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’. I wouldn’t call the Afghan government Genocidal; in fact it was the scene of a Genocidal invasion and war from the former Soviet Union, which the Afghan Mujaheddin banded together and won.
Unfortunately, the Afghan struggle for freedom led to destroyed ancient Buddhist statues and a near eradication of Jews. On that note, I had never looked into whether there are any Jewish people living in Afghanistan at all. Here is what Wikipedia says:
“Jews have lived in Afghanistan for at least 2,000 years, but the community has been reduced greatly because of emigration. Afghan Jewish communities now exist mostly in Israel, Pakistan and the United States. Today, it is believed that there is only one Jew, Zablon Simintov, residing in Afghanistan. He cares for a dilapidated synagogue in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and receives aid from sympathetic Muslims and Jews around the world.” (see: History of the Jews in Afghanistan – rom Wikipedia). One guy! This is Afghanistan; America’s big Middle east ‘project’, hearts and minds, all of that. I now wish I had gone to see that dilapidated synagogue when I was in Kabul, what a story that would have been. My question is this; if Israel had reduced the Muslim population of Palestine to a single sad broken down mosque, would it be cared for with the proceeds of sympathetic Jews? Would the Muslim running it survive a single day?
In Palestine, the backers of the Genocide are Jews, in Iraq they are Christians, in Afghanistan they are Muslims, and in Sri Lanka they are Buddhists, and good luck to you if you happen to live in one of the latter three places listed, and fail to fit in. But never assume that these terrible behaviors represent the actual religions or their people at large. Not in any case, including Northern Ireland.
Since the people of opposing religions tend to represent different cultures, at least perceptually, it is racism, and as soon as the killings begin en mass, then it is Genocide. The first defense of the Genocidal groups as I have learned in my years of writing, is to accuse the writer of being against the religion of the majority.
Israel came to power in 1948 and then attacked neighboring Arab countries in 1967 in the Six Day War and used their victory to justify a major land grab. Since then Israel has progressively encroached on the remaining Palestinian areas, forcing them to drive on separate roads, and be subjected to a different set of laws than those that govern Jews. This is what U.S. taxpayers are funding.
Israel is obviously very guilty of years of violent and deadly ethnic cleansing.
Background: Murdering Babies is ‘Permissible’ When They’re Palestinian – Alison Weir Salem-News.com
Every time a person buys a Nestle product, they are funding the diesel fuel of a bulldozer that will mow down a Palestinian family home, sometimes with people inside, almost always illegally. And when they use Caterpillar construction equipment, they directly fund the destruction of Palestine’s homes. All Israeli settlement products are directly funding colonies that exist atop ancient Palestinian villages. The settlers regularly harass the native Palestinians and school kids aren’t safe, families aren’t safe. The settlers train with deadly weapons and fire homemade rockets into Palestinian neighborhoods. And before people start ranting about Hamas rocket attacks, remember that these rogue attacks from Gaza have killed exactly 28 Israeli people. That is terrible, nobody should have died and the deaths of the Israelis are no less significant than any others, but they are far, far fewer in comparison to Palestinian deaths at the hands of the Israelis, like more than a 100 to 1, far more.
Israel built division walls across Palestinian farmland and they shoot farmers with sniper rifles when they try to work their land, even in the legal zones. The Israeli navy regularly attacks and harasses, detain, confiscate, arrest, etc., the poor fishermen of Gaza who try to earn a meager living in restricted waters. A great writer and peace activist who was killed recently in Gaza, Vittorio Arrigoni, regularly protested the treatment of the fishermen.
And that is all just one tiny glance at the problems people have living under Israel’s highly aggressive illegal ‘army’ called the Israeli Defence Force (IDF).
In a Google search just now, I saw that anti-BDS sites that have high ranking. The first thing I read was, “BDS leaders want to destroy Israel and vilify Jews in the process”. They’re so completely full of it. Salem-News.com has an overt reputation for reporting the truth and everything else be damned.
BDS, (Boycott, Divestments & Sanctions) campaign take part.
New Seasons, you guys need to drop your products that violate BDS and if you do it, we will bring the television cameras to Portland and give you substantial coverage, all it is, to show people that anything and everything is possible once the right amount of education has been applied.
Please do the right thing. I predict that if you drop just a few of your products, that you will earn many customers for life, and those are who you need.
Tim King is Salem-News.com Editor and Writer. We are proud to have Tim king as part of My Catbird Seat Contributors Team. He is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com’s Executive News Editor. Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Silver Spoke Award by the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (2011), Excellence in Journalism Award by the Oregon Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs (2010), Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), First-place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Tim has several years of experience in network affiliate news TV stations, having worked as a reporter and photographer at NBC, ABC and FOX stations in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. Tim was a member of the National Press Photographer’s Association for several years and is a current member of the Orange County Press Club.
Read more from Tim King, Salem-News.com, Oregon. Launched in 2004, Salem-News.com continues to cover a wide ranging news base that includes Palestine and Israel, Africa, Mexico, Iran, Lebanon, government corruption, war crimes and many more subjects.
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I think people are eventually going to learn, the way we all learned about South Africa…
by Tim King / My catbird Seat
(PORTLAND, Ore.) – With all of the stories about terrible things taking place in the world, it is good to know that flash mobs are out there to embarrass the holy living sh*t out of retailers that want to grease their palms with blood money from Israel. It’s no secret Israel isn’t just slightly over the line in terms of human rights violations and highly documented war crimes, the Zionist government of Netanyahu is almost primeval in its treatment of human beings. The folks at New Seasons in Portland know what is going on, and their stance in support of oppressive Israeli occupation is baffling.
We learned yesterday that Israel’s government may reserve their most vicious public assaults for American Jews who dare to voice support for human rights. (see: Israel’s Crap Treatment of an American Jew)
Many of us actually understand that the goal of peace can never be reached under the current system. George W. Bush turned the U.S. into a nation guilty of committing Genocide.
After all, Iraq is an unjustified conflict against a civilian population that has a lot of oil. One point five million human lives eradicated by the U.S. led forces? Just imagine how greed transcends right down to the thought that fewer people mean more resources for the nation committing the acts. Fewer human beings to disagree? I saw two types of people up close in Iraq; they were either highly compliant, or bound, hooded and subdued.
The Portland BDS Coalition Mobs New Seasons Grocery demanding a total Boycott of Israeli Products.
I can go on forever about this, instead I will let you enjoy this super cool video featuring a unique concept known as ‘humanity’ that is often the missing guest. The people in this Portland, Oregon flash mob carry the virtues of what is right in this world, they are drawing attention to what is wrong. That is what we are supposed to do as human beings.
The U.S. right wing nearly proclaims the country’s ‘Christianity’ while at the same espousing a system of religions freedom, which is supposed to exist. However President Bush compared the war on Iraq to the Crusades (two wholly unjustified extended periods of bloodshed). Then, just as now, Genocide always happens for the simple reason; because of religious hegemony and oppression.
Israel, like Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, admits that religious freedom is denied – it is written as such. By national doctrine they exist to serve the needs of only one faith, i.e. the ‘Jewish State of Israel’. The same goes for the ‘Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’. I wouldn’t call the Afghan government Genocidal; in fact it was the scene of a Genocidal invasion and war from the former Soviet Union, which the Afghan Mujaheddin banded together and won.
Unfortunately, the Afghan struggle for freedom led to destroyed ancient Buddhist statues and a near eradication of Jews. On that note, I had never looked into whether there are any Jewish people living in Afghanistan at all. Here is what Wikipedia says:
“Jews have lived in Afghanistan for at least 2,000 years, but the community has been reduced greatly because of emigration. Afghan Jewish communities now exist mostly in Israel, Pakistan and the United States. Today, it is believed that there is only one Jew, Zablon Simintov, residing in Afghanistan. He cares for a dilapidated synagogue in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and receives aid from sympathetic Muslims and Jews around the world.” (see: History of the Jews in Afghanistan – rom Wikipedia). One guy! This is Afghanistan; America’s big Middle east ‘project’, hearts and minds, all of that. I now wish I had gone to see that dilapidated synagogue when I was in Kabul, what a story that would have been. My question is this; if Israel had reduced the Muslim population of Palestine to a single sad broken down mosque, would it be cared for with the proceeds of sympathetic Jews? Would the Muslim running it survive a single day?
In Palestine, the backers of the Genocide are Jews, in Iraq they are Christians, in Afghanistan they are Muslims, and in Sri Lanka they are Buddhists, and good luck to you if you happen to live in one of the latter three places listed, and fail to fit in. But never assume that these terrible behaviors represent the actual religions or their people at large. Not in any case, including Northern Ireland.
Since the people of opposing religions tend to represent different cultures, at least perceptually, it is racism, and as soon as the killings begin en mass, then it is Genocide. The first defense of the Genocidal groups as I have learned in my years of writing, is to accuse the writer of being against the religion of the majority.
Israel came to power in 1948 and then attacked neighboring Arab countries in 1967 in the Six Day War and used their victory to justify a major land grab. Since then Israel has progressively encroached on the remaining Palestinian areas, forcing them to drive on separate roads, and be subjected to a different set of laws than those that govern Jews. This is what U.S. taxpayers are funding.
Israel is obviously very guilty of years of violent and deadly ethnic cleansing.
Background: Murdering Babies is ‘Permissible’ When They’re Palestinian – Alison Weir Salem-News.com
Background on Israeli Occupation: The activists understand that: all of Palestine has been militarily absorbed by Israel, which didn’t exist as a government until 1948. Gaza is an isolated coastal strip bordered by Israel on the east and Egypt to the south. The West Bank and Golan Heights are also Palestine, and everything else is Israel. So, you have Palestinians who live in occupied Palestine; Palestinians who live in Israel that are Israeli citizens, and Palestinians in Gaza who have been locked in an open air concentration camp for years.
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Israeli bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes in Lod, ner Tel Aviv, Image: Al Jazeera |
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And that is all just one tiny glance at the problems people have living under Israel’s highly aggressive illegal ‘army’ called the Israeli Defence Force (IDF).
In a Google search just now, I saw that anti-BDS sites that have high ranking. The first thing I read was, “BDS leaders want to destroy Israel and vilify Jews in the process”. They’re so completely full of it. Salem-News.com has an overt reputation for reporting the truth and everything else be damned.BDS, (Boycott, Divestments & Sanctions) campaign take part.
New Seasons, you guys need to drop your products that violate BDS and if you do it, we will bring the television cameras to Portland and give you substantial coverage, all it is, to show people that anything and everything is possible once the right amount of education has been applied.
Please do the right thing. I predict that if you drop just a few of your products, that you will earn many customers for life, and those are who you need.
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Tim King is Salem-News.com Editor and Writer. We are proud to have Tim king as part of My Catbird Seat Contributors Team. He is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com’s Executive News Editor. Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Silver Spoke Award by the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (2011), Excellence in Journalism Award by the Oregon Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs (2010), Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), First-place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Tim has several years of experience in network affiliate news TV stations, having worked as a reporter and photographer at NBC, ABC and FOX stations in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. Tim was a member of the National Press Photographer’s Association for several years and is a current member of the Orange County Press Club.Read more from Tim King, Salem-News.com, Oregon. Launched in 2004, Salem-News.com continues to cover a wide ranging news base that includes Palestine and Israel, Africa, Mexico, Iran, Lebanon, government corruption, war crimes and many more subjects.
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