South African Muslims condemn Jewish boycott

[oberliner]

CAPE TOWN (JTA) -- A group of more than 100 South African Muslims has condemned calls to boycott Jewish-owned businesses.

In a letter to the daily Cape Times, the group refers to an anonymous e-mail making the rounds calling for such a boycott in response to Israeli attacks on Gaza. In the letter, the Muslim group says it is "appalled at the occasional manifestations of anti-Semitism in our community."

While the group says it is "horrified and angered by the Israeli attack" and the "willful and indiscriminate" attack on civilian targets, it says it does not believe that this should "be an excuse for anti-Semitism among us. To single out Jews for any kind of attack or action in this manner is racism, something that all of us deeply detest and many of us have fought against for much of our lives."

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/02/1002692/south-african-muslims-condemn-jewish-boycott

[LeftishBrit]

1. Thanks for posting this!

Racists like to encourage Jews and Muslims to hate one another. All minority group members everywhere should join against the racists, instead of fighting each other.

[ohio2007]

2. What$ in it for them ?

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While the group supports a boycott of "Israeli, settler-produced" products and companies that "support the Occupation," the letter says it is "unacceptable to link such a boycott to the ethnicity of people living in South Africa." Such a call, the letter says, "sullies the history of our community's struggle for equal rights during apartheid" and also "tarnishes the struggle for freedom and justice for the Palestinians. Let us not become the evil that we abhor."

[LeftishBrit]

7. Perhaps that they don't like being targeted for their ethnicity either..

and have the sense to realize that unity against racism is the best defense?

Or perhaps because they just have a conscience and common sense?

The proposed boycott was not against Israel, but against Jews within South Africa!

[Megahurtz]

3. It is Anyone's Right

to boycott whomever they want.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Yes it is. And it's also everyone's right to refuse to boycott!

[ohio2007]

5. Report: South African Ports To Reject Israeli Ships

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x258177

Wonder why they don't mention the products that were to be off loaded? Seems some people were counting on Israel products for their livelihood


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3695610&mesg_id=3695610

[Megahurtz]

6. Well ya can't make anyone else

do what they don't want to do can ya? ;)

[Jim Sagle]

9. And anyone else's right to call them Nazi filth in response.

[Jefferson23]

8. This boycott should not be supported, this is not the message the

world needs to hear. Good to hear they condemned this blatant racism.

[azurnoir]

10. It is one thing to boycot Israel but it wrong to

boycott Jews simply because of Israels actions