Re: [DebConf Scedule change] "Let's talk about the elephant in the room" DebConf20 in Israel session
On Sat, 2019-07-27 at 09:07 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 10:21:18AM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
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> > > We need to have an open discussion about the political message that
> > > this project decision sends, and how it affects the people within
> > > our community who support the BDS (Boycott, Disinvestment,
> > > Sanctions) movement against the policies of the Israeli Government,
> > > all the while reiterating our support to the individual members of
> > > the local organizing team, who are our peers in Debian.
> > >
> > > A campaign has been brewing for a few weeks, calling on the DebConf
> > > Committee and the Debian Community to rescind the decision of
> > > holding the project’s yearly conference in Israel.
> > +--------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The BDS movement is widely described as antisemitic. Why should we
> > care about it?
>
> Because the defenders of Israel's racist and genocidal policies describe
> everyone that opposes them as antisemitic as a means of shutting down
> legitimate criticism, and therefore something being "widely described" as
> antisemitic tells you nothing about whether it is antisemitic, only about
> whether it opposes some policy of the Israeli state.
The previous discussion on debconf-discuss@ gave me enough context; it
pretty much looks like the antisemitic case here. See also the quote
that was in my original mail; if that's what you want to defend...
Ansgar
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