Current Affairs Israel is an apartheid state

[Bluerover]

Is the UNSC still deliberating on the Middle East - I can't see any final decision and the official library currently has this (Blank outcome/vote):

Meeting Record	Date	Press Release	Topic	Security Council Outcome / Vote
Meetings conducted by the Security Council in 2023 (in reverse chronological order)
Document links will work once the document has been published in the Official Document System.
S/PV.9459	30 October	SC/15470	The situation in the Middle East	--
S/PV.9458	30 October	SC/15469	The situation in Libya	S/RES/2702 (2023) 15-0-0

 

[Milkman]

Ok, he has made reference to that phrase.

He can support Palestine without referencing that phrase. Somebody in his position should know better.

I feel like you are setting a dangerously low bar for offence here.

 

[Charro]

I feel like you are setting a dangerously low bar for offence here.

It's not about offence.

It's about reading the room, being a in a position of office and choosing your words carefully.

All this does is help portray the left, and people who support Palestine as anti-Semites. Even though that isnt true, to reference such a phrase leaves the door open for accusations

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Run that by me again, mate.

 

[coollino]

It's not about offence.

It's about reading the room, being a in a position of office and choosing your words carefully.

All this does is help portray the left, and people who support Palestine as anti-Semites. Even though that isnt true, to reference such a phrase leaves the door open for accusations

Yeah @Blue 1 mentioned it's connotations a few days ago, before the march. I had no idea really. It's obviously a very easy chant for a protest and many probably don't even know it is but just use something else as they will just use it to shut the protests down

 

[dublinbluenose]

 

[davek]

Spot on. Israel is a pariah state and needs to be boycotted like it's predecessor apartheid state South Africa was.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Purposefully? As in "there's a method to the madness"?

If so, that is completely inconsistent.

Who is it you'd like me to answer on behalf of?

 

[Wat Tyler]

 

[peteblue]

Spot on. Israel is a pariah state and needs to be boycotted like it's predecessor apartheid state South Africa was.

Except that South Africa was run by a minority population. Israel has more than twice as many Jews than Palestinians……..

 

[dublinbluenose]

Wait, isn't BDS racist?

 

[Wat Tyler]

 

[Wat Tyler]

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Except that South Africa was run by a minority population. Israel has more than twice as many Jews than Palestinians……..

Still backing mass murderers I see

9000 dead in two weeks but whatever there’s twice as many Jews

 

[magicjuan]

It's not about offence.

It's about reading the room, being a in a position of office and choosing your words carefully.

All this does is help portray the left, and people who support Palestine as anti-Semites. Even though that isnt true, to reference such a phrase leaves the door open for accusations

I thought it was an attempt to 'de-power' that phrase by using it in an inclusive way, by including Israel?