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shira

(30,109 posts)
4. Imagine "progressives" boycotting gay Zimbabweans or Iranians...
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 08:14 AM
Apr 2012

Yeah, right. Not in a million years.

Boycotting Israelis (Jews) is pure bigotry. These BDS clowns and their silent supporters throughout the rest of the progressive/left should hang their heads in shame. They're proving to be no better than their extreme rightwing counterparts. The more things change the more they remain the same...

The Bielski Brothers

Jewish Resistance and the "Otriad"


Prior to the onset of WWII, conditions throughout occupied Poland & Belarus varied greatly. In some areas, especially in eastern Poland, which the Soviet Union invaded in 1939, and subsequently "formally" annexed, the situation was particularly volatile.

During the two year' occupation till the Soviet-German war outbreak in 1941, the Soviets carried out the ethnic cleansing of Poles considered as a potential threat to full annexation of these territories into Soviet Union.

Hundred of thousands of Polish officials, officers, soldiers, policemen, teachers, churchmen, landowners, and civilians with their families were sent to Siberian concentration camps.

[font color = "red"]Some Jews had welcomed the Soviets as liberators, [/font]believing that life under the communists might be preferable to that of the Poles. However time would soon disprove that theory.

Novogrudek Market Place 1941

[font color = "red"]"I remember we were very happy that the Russians liberated us from the anti-Semitic government of Poland[/font], and we were happy that the Germans didn't occupy our area of Belarus, but when the Russians came in, right away they took away my father's business. I was forced to go to a Russian school, instead of the Tarbut. The Russians forced my father to work for them. He was sweeping the floors because he was a capitalist, a bourgeois. He worked in his own store as a laborer...

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/bielski.html

Not too much has changed in 70 years.
'whose leaders, respectively, call homosexuals "worse than dogs and pigs"' King_David Apr 2012 #1
Imagine "progressives" boycotting gay Zimbabweans or Iranians... shira Apr 2012 #4
Gay Nazis? holdencaufield Apr 2012 #2
hate to break it to you guys.... pelsar Apr 2012 #3
I understand what you are saying, King_David Apr 2012 #5
Palestinian nationalism is no more justifiable than white or "European" nationalism. EgaLitE Apr 2012 #6
white nationalism has been around a lot longer than any "civil rights movement"... pelsar Apr 2012 #10
Actually, the Palestinians tend to be more popular with people of colour... shaayecanaan Apr 2012 #14
Don't make this a race issue Gurgen4 Apr 2012 #17
The post above mine claimed, essentially, that Palestinian nationalism amounted to racism shaayecanaan Apr 2012 #20
So anyone who criticizes Israe's policy toward Palestinians is really just an "anti-semite"? whathehell Apr 2012 #22
SOME progressives, pelsar leftynyc Apr 2012 #28
true enough pelsar Apr 2012 #30
That loud/vocal minority of "progressives" is tolerated way to much by the majority. n/t shira Apr 2012 #31
We're progressives leftynyc Apr 2012 #33
Israeli 'germ-washing' shira Apr 2012 #7
Anything Good and Progressive, King_David Apr 2012 #8
NO...that's not true... Ken Burch Apr 2012 #26
Ken, do you think Israel is trying to "cover its crimes related to occupation"? n/t shira Apr 2012 #27
No, I don't think anything that conspiratorial about "Israel" Ken Burch Apr 2012 #29
Good, but leading progressive "pro-Palestinians" do think that. shira Apr 2012 #32
I don't know and I'm not going to guess. Ken Burch Apr 2012 #34
Obviously a Zionist plot... holdencaufield Apr 2012 #9
These Zionists schemes are so transparent! n/t shira Apr 2012 #13
And anyone who claims to just be against "zionism" is OBVIOUSLY an anti-semite! whathehell Apr 2012 #21
You're basically quoting MLK.... shira Apr 2012 #23
Israel at it again: "puke-washing" shira Apr 2012 #11
35 Arab nations not fooled by Zionist attempt @ "hunger-washing" shira Apr 2012 #12
Can't fool them. jimmie Apr 2012 #15
"12. 35 Arab nations not fooled by Zionist attempt @ "hunger-washing" azurnoir Apr 2012 #16
Oops, I misread it. Good thing those 35 nations weren't fooled, though! shira Apr 2012 #18
except they did not vote no they abstained from the vote n/t azurnoir Apr 2012 #19
Maybe everyone should have abstained & that way no one benefits... shira Apr 2012 #24
however it passed last December azurnoir Apr 2012 #25
More Zionist hijinks. Obvious attempt at "Snow-washing" to cover for Ziocrimes against humanity shira Apr 2012 #35
LOL @ Haaretz: "Michael Oren pinkwashes the truth about Israel and gay Palestinians" shira May 2012 #36
Thanks for posting shira azurnoir May 2012 #37
That photo is priceless... shira May 2012 #38
That photo is amazing. jimmie May 2012 #40
I wonder what they're celebrating in that picture. And why Hamas would reward.... shira May 2012 #41
I think they are celebrating breaking the blockade oberliner May 2012 #42
How long before Obama is accused of pink washing WRT gay marriage.... shira May 2012 #39
Green-washing on CNN.... shira Jun 2012 #43
Very evil Zionist attempt at cancer-washing... shira Jul 2012 #44
ON ‘JEW-WASHING’ AND BDS shira Jul 2012 #45
Israel's dastardly hi-tech washing... shira Aug 2012 #46
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