A Reminder

For those of you who still believe the boycott is only about the '67 "occupation", I give you the following quote of Hilary Rose, one of the founders of the boycott initiative, from an interview given in the Jerusalem Report:

"As a young woman I shared the general sentiment that Israel was a wonderful thing," Rose says in a telephone interview, in clipped English tones. "Now I believe that in a terrible sense Israel was Europe's last act of anti-Semitism. Europe's failure to deal with anti-Semitism after World War II meant they colluded with the Zionist dream to build a state on somebody else's land." (Emphasis mine)

BTW, British Jewish anti-Zionism is deep-rooted. Already in 1917, Edwin Montagu, an assimilated Jewish politician, watered down the Balfour Declaration and tried to have it rescinded. A book by Rory Miller covers the anti-Zionist movement among British Jewry in the years 1945-48 - Divided Against Zion. Although most Jews made their peace with the state after its establishment, it would seem that Jewish anti-Zionism is back in style. God help us all.