Comment on the CBC Story: CUPE Ontario members back boycott of Israeli universities

Since the CBC won't post my comments directly on their website, I just thought: "Fine, I'll post it on my blog instead!"

Here is the article found at http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/02/22/cupe-israel.html :

Delegates at a Canadian Union of Public Employees conference in Windsor, Ont., have voted in favour of a resolution to boycott Israeli universities to protest against Israel's recently ended offensive in Gaza.

When such a boycott was proposed earlier this year, CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan angered many by saying universities in the province should bar Israeli professors who refuse to condemn Israel's three-week military campaign, which ended Jan. 18.

Ryan later said the union was not calling for a boycott of individual Israeli academics, saying the resolution instead took aim at what CUPE referred to as "academic institutions and the institutional connections that exist between universities here and those in Israel."

The union leader said he was pushing for action because Palestinian schools were among Israel's targets. He also compared the Dec. 29 attack on the Islamic University in Gaza to Nazis targeting educational institutions during the Second World War.

He later apologized for the remarks, saying he used "a poor choice of analogy."

Members of the Jewish Defence League called the boycott proposal and Ryan's remarks anti-Semitic.

So, here is my comment in response to the article:
I am disappointed in the organization. Man, people who hold to liberal view points call themselves neutral and tolerant but when the going gets tough they automatically become intolerant and very biased against those who disagree with them.

Personally, I think Israel did have a right to fight back in Gaza because militants were the ones making the first move to fire rockets into the nation. No one seems to be critiiczing those militants who put their own country in danger by attacking Israel, a country that had the militaristic and technological superiority. So, I think Israel had a right to protect citizens against Hamas, who could have had no respect for theirs.

Now that this is on the Internet, I probably should steer clear of CUPE for awhile. Since they seem to not be tolerant of those who disagree wiht them and who seem to keep some anti-semite people within their ranks. I am a Christian after all and the foundation of my faith is very much in Judaism and the people of Israel. Therefore, I guess CUPE doesn't like me or people who follow the Christian faith either.

Again, very disappointed in them. To think I supported them when they went on strike at Carleton a few years ago! Won't support them if it happens again!

So, yeah. That's my opinion on CUPE's choice of action. I fail to see how what happened in Israel has anything to do with them. Man, people really need to learn to mind their own business sometimes and to not stick their nose in a situation where it doesn't belong.

CUPE should know better than to compare what Israel did in Gaza to what the Nazis did in the Second World War. Some organizations can be such air heads sometimes! Considering the Nazis killed 6 000 000+ Jews and even more people during that time period the situation in Gaza is hardly comparable. First, the Nazis were trying to take over Europe and thus were the original agressor. Israel was responding to Hamas militants who were sending rockets into Israel that was killing Israeli citizens, a clear act of agression on the militants part. Second, what the Nazis did to the Jews is similar to the goal that the militants had. So, it is bad that the Nazis killed off 6 000 000 Jews, who could fight back but it is wrong for the Jews to defend themselves in their own country against a militant group that wants the exact same thing as the Nazis did 60+ years ago? Yeah...No!

I know I added some more, but this seems to be an issue where Israel is frowned upon by the Western world when Hamas was the real agressor in this. That and it shows, to me, that the media is a little bias against Israel. Which is too bad because according to my faith Gaza is a part of the Promised Land and what Hamas owns is really Israel's land. That includes the Northern half of that land too. So, someday Gaza will be a part of the land of ISrael, probably when Israel's Messiah returns in Glory...Something I cannot wait for because He is my Messiah too!!!!!!