On human rights, McGill University, students and free speech
On human rights, McGill University, students and free speech
An Open Letter from Roger Waters
On Human Rights, McGill University, Students and Free Speech
The latest move by B’nai Brith in the McGill affair looks like the last desperate baring of teeth of a cornered animal. It is predictable, pathetic and dangerous. The reason it is dangerous is it is frightened. Why is it frightened? Because someone has switched on the light and there is nowhere to hide. The light it would dearly love to extinguish is the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.
Ok, enough with metaphors. B’nai Brith and the rest of the Israel lobby supporters of the illegal occupation of Palestine and the apartheid regime Israel maintains, seek to convince the rest of us that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of Paris of 1948 is wrong. B’nai Brith believes that only people of the Jewish faith should have full rights in Palestine. In a recent un-disputed referendum, 71% of McGill students disagreed. That overwhelming majority of McGill students, like me, and several hundred other signatories of an open letter in support of them, do believe in the Paris Declaration. That means we believe in equal human rights, including, but not limited to, political and property rights, the right to self-determination, the right to life……….yeah all that good stuff denied to the Palestinians……
We believe those rights should extend to all our brothers and sisters all over the world irrespective of ethnicity, religion or nationality. Just to be clear, that would include the Palestinian people, non?
This is not rocket science. Threatening McGill students and by inference the people of these United Nations with “lawfare” is an idle threat which we resist with all the weight of being right on our side. All your huffing and puffing and baring of teeth signifies nothing, because your cause is morally bankrupt, your Emperor has no clothes. The time has come for you to rethink your position and join collective humanity. We are here with love in our hearts ready to welcome you into the fold, but first you must shrug off the carapace of supremacist bullshit, that sits so heavily on those shoulders.
Love,
Roger Waters
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