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Somerville activists push Palestinian rights

E-mail|Link|Comments (2) Posted by Michael Paulson July 30, 2008 12:48 PM

The Somerville Divestment Project, which has lost numerous battles to force the city to get involved in the Middle East conflict, has a new strategy, the Somerville News reports:

"The polarizing group that has brought hundreds to City Hall to protest and support Israeli policies in the Middle East, is pushing another non-binding ballot question to city voters in November. The resolution would direct State Rep. Denise Provost, D-Somerville, to 'vote in favor of a non-binding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all people, including non-Jewish Palestinians of Israel, to live free from laws that give more rights to people of one religion than another.'"

(Hat tip: Adam Gaffin)

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What? So we should recognize terrorists as people and vote on it too. I hate to get involved in political discussion but this is beyond absurd.

Posted by RDB July 31, 08 02:27 PM

How about a vote to condemn self-imposed Palestinian rights to (1) bomb innocent civilian populations, (2) use torture as a political tool and (3) expropriate foreign aid to secret European bank accounts at the expense of intended recipients?

The Somerville Divestment Project appears to be nothing more than a terror-supporting front of pseudo-intellectual, lazy-assed, anti-semetic academics with a revisionist view of the history of the Israel/Palestine matter and the false pretenses that gave rise to the fraudulent "Palestinian cause." Surely there are more worthy injustices to protest in the Muslim world than this.

Posted by JMB July 31, 08 03:42 PM

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