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| Catalonia BDS chapter says Europe is ‘responsible' for Barcelona attack |
| 2017-08-20 |
| Catalonia’s branch of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel suggested that European governments are "responsible" for a terrorist attack in the Barcelona area. BDS Catalonia made the accusation on Friday, a day after the Islamic State terrorist group said its militants killed in the Spanish region 14 people and wounded another 100 in two incidents in and near its capital, Barcelona. Following a paragraph that states that BDS Catalonia "wishes to condemn the attacks committed" and to "express solidarity with the victims and their relatives," the statement asserts that "we also condemn the responsibility of European governments in what they are doing with their foreign and domestic policies, and their complicity in human rights violations worldwide." In the only reference to terrorism in the statement, the authors wrote: "We also do not forgot the victims of military occupations, of wars and terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestina, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Mali, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and many other places where what happened yesterday in Barcelona is a daily occurrence." Finally, the authors added, "we emphasize our opposition to Islamophobia, Xenophobia and all forms of discrimination." Solidarity, the authors added, "is our most powerful weapon. #Barcelona." |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Given that Spain's courts have repeatedly ruled that local and other governments adopting BDS principles is very illegal hate behaviour, I have to wonder how long it will be before the BDS movement itself is outlawed as a hate group. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-20 11:57 |
| #1 since europe welcomed the migrants without screening in some sense, europe is 'responsible' for the attack of course, since Islamic terrorism is Islamic, that is more responsible --- most people in Spain know this but are afraid to say it |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-08-20 07:27 |