BDS: The Last Refuge of a Loser

If AIPAC, Alan Dershowitz and the Mossad were make a wish for what they hoped Israel’s opponents would kick off the year with, they would be hard pressed to come up with anything better than last week’s Gaza Freedom March fiasco.

From across the Atlantic, leadership for the scheme was provided by none other than George Galloway, the legendary British loudmouth who so pleases foes of American foreign policy that they continually fail to notice that he’s picked their pockets for the umpteenth time.

And providing leadership and logistics from the American end was Code Pink, a group whose operational abilities currently extend to getting six people into a department store to smear themselves with mud and take photos of each other before getting arrested.

With such an able crew at the helm, what could possibly go wrong when they convinced over 1200 anti-Israel activists from around the world to fly to Egypt where they were told they could march to the Egyptian side of the Gaza border and join protestors in Gaza (as well as other GFM events around the world) in a massive demonstration of solidarity?

Well, to begin with, no one seems to have gotten all of the I’s dotted and T’s crossed with the Egyptian government before asking over a thousand people to spend their vacation time and cash flying to Cairo in hopes that they’d be allowed “go mental” at the tense Egyptian-Gaza border.

And so, protestors were left cooling their heels in their Cairo hotels for days on end. Absent planning or leadership, some activists simply started harassing Egyptians, going down the usual checklist (hunger strikes, sit-ins, etc.), only to discover that the Galloway/Code Pink axis had sold them out by cutting deal with the Egyptian government to let 100 leadership-chosen activists enter Gaza after all.

I’ll have more on the GFM over the coming days (including its hilarious attempt to crash First Night celebrations in Boston), but given the focus of this blog, the point of bringing up GFM is the resolution that this intrepid vanguard created to try to salvage the wreckage they caused in Egypt, their masterly Cairo Declaration.

And what new, innovative, brilliant tactics form the basis of this new gauntlet they are throwing down to the world: why none other than Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), with a focus on international trade unions.

As noted, I’ll have more to say on GFM and BDS in the coming days, but for now I’d just like to invite Code Pink to embrace their Cairo Declaration and begin right now to get the AFL-CIO (or any American labor union) behind their squalid little project. And their success or failure in this endeavor will allow us to directly measure the capability of their leadership and popularity of their cause (or lack thereof).