US Jewish Leaders call for Beijing Olympics boycott

[Pat the Great]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRnjEBdiEfe2kx_h7Af3poParyQgD90BPBFO1

:(

[nightshade]

I'm so sick of stupid hypocritical fuckers calling China out.

[awong]

typical hypricrites,

[ZhuBaJie]

you're kidding me right? with the Palestine situation going on, they're actually pro-Tibet?

[nskripchun]

you're kidding me right? with the Palestine situation going on, they're actually pro-Tibet?

It's too ironic...

[minbo]

Hold on here, Jewish Americans are not necessarily voting in the Israeli elections, so they my not have direct influence on Israeli policy to Palestine, though of course they may still have considerable influence all the same. I wouldn't call them hypocrites based upon that alone, besides I see American Jewish people, and Jewish Israelis who denounce Israel's position concerning Palestine. Anyway, even if it is hypocritical, if they see an injustice, then I think that it is desirable for them to take a moral position, even if I may not agree with their judgment of an injustice or their position on the injustice, even if they are not without sin. They just have to accept that they will be called out for their failings as well.

[zhangfei]

not everyone thinks it is a good idea.

from the jewish daily "forward".

Enough Misguided Maligning of China
Opinion
By Antoine Halff and Shalom Solomon Wald

http://www.forward.com/articles/13232/

The potential cost of anti-Chinese sentiment among American Jews is dear indeed. But it is not just from a realpolitik standpoint that the Darfur and Tibet campaigns are misguided.

Under a veneer of political correctness, such efforts are threatening to become a major moral failure on our part. For all the obvious differences between China and the Jewish people, it is hard not to notice the similarities between today’s anti-Chinese feeling and the antisemitism that first emerged in the late 19th century, when Western Jews threatened Christian domination by moving into positions of power.

Our insistence on holding China to higher standards than other countries reflects our concerns about how its rise is reshaping our world and challenging Western supremacy. Outrage at Chinese policies is in style and uncontroversial because it gives those anxieties — about losing jobs, about Chinese takeovers of Western companies, about China’s competition with the West for scarce energy resources — a respectable cover.

As a rising power with roots as deep as ours, China has a role to play for the good, and it is open to influence if it is not publicly insulted. We would do well not to try to stifle China’s rise or seek to disrupt its cherished Olympics.

Screaming at China may be a great way to feel good about ourselves or get political mileage, but it is not going to get us anywhere on Darfur or Tibet. Not all is perfect about China, and there is no point in denying it. But neither should we mindlessly howl with the anti-Chinese wolves.

Shalom Solomon Wald is a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute in Jerusalem. Antoine Halff, an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, is an energy analyst in New York

[awong]

I wonder what scrotum head octa thinks haha

[wuwei]

meh, publicity stunts like this are just a sign that their opinion is more and more meaningless.