By Daphne Anson
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (par the old British television commercial for a well-known, now defunct, chain of gentlemen’s outfitters aka High Street tailors: “John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch!”):
In the comparatively short time that David Collier has been blogging, he’s produced some absolute gems.
And in case you haven’t heard yet, he’s caught out anti-Israel ex-pat academic Ilan Pappe admitting to what is the Big Lie of the BDS movement.
To quote reader Harvey:
“This post from David Collier is one of the most important scoops to come out of the on-going battle against BDS for some time. David attended a talk by the execrable Ilan Pappe last week in which Pappe kindly pulled the rug from under the BDS . He confirms what we have always suspected, that there was never a call for Boycott from within Palestinian society. It was a lie but the hard left brigade needed it to be compared to the South Africa model which was a call for boycott from within South African society. Pappe in this one short clip disproves it.”
But as Pappe laughingly says, “It’s a desperate call … for historical records”:
For more on this see Collier’s post here
And also see Elder of Ziyon here
Here’s a long but valuable video by David Collier beginning “I’m going to talk about BDS”
Incidentally, the very long-established Jewish communal newspaper in Perth, Western Australia, The Maccabean, has ruffled a number of leftwing communal feathers by refusing an advertisement from the New Israel Fund. I reckon that befits the place where Australia’s first ongoing Zionist body was born, and a newspaper that has always been proudly supportive of Israel.
Read about the brewing contretemps here
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