I was gonna make a joke about the whole tradition of Eve long cons. But damn, actually saving someone’s life... I don’t have it in me to make any jokes about them after that.

Yeah, they try to spin it as a meet-cute just like Melania&Donald’s PR try to spin theirs as a meet-cute.

Sure, but it took 30 years for it to become a “massive movement” and many people discount BDS because it isn’t a “massive movement” already.

Ha! I googled their story, which plays out on most sites as a meet-cute. She describes them meeting through mutual friends (mutual even though they have a 10 year age gap) at a ‘really strange party in the Israeli dessert’ focused on health and healing, which the two of them didn’t find interesting. But they found…

Calls for boycotts against South Africa started in the 1950s. The movement didn’t get wide international support until the 1980s and Apartheid ended in the 1990s. All during that time, people said it wouldn’t work and Apartheid would never end - many more at the beginning, very few at the end.

At a “yoga retreat” which just happened, by complete coincidence and totally by mistake, to be populated with rich (old) men and hot young models - sorta like parties during fashion week where models and rich (old) men meet hot young women totally by accident and coincidence - because you don’t want those events to…

So why do they keep trying to pass all these laws against BDS? I mean if they’re trying to combat anti-semitism, I think ceasing to invite alt-right assholes to speak at college campuses might be a better idea.

Russia didn’t terrorize Ukraine, they blew up fewer Syrians than we did, and if there were an organized boycott for gay rights I’m sure she would participate.

Regardless, the moral imperative of not serving apartheid states doesn’t vanish in the face of other imperatives unfulfilled. Shill elsewhere.

Good on you, Lorde.

Yes, they did. But the original poster put it up here: http://www.imasurvivor.xyz/

I read that and was like “...do you have any idea how many people work hard with good intentions and still don’t get ahead? it’s a bit more complex than that...”. She seems harmless, but also a bit clueless as to how fortunate she’s been to be born into a situation.

Yay Lorde!

Wait a minute - HOW did she meet her husband?

I was wondering if you were talking about that. Yeah, she’s definitely not a fave of mine either.

Jesus. That’s appalling.

BDS is way more than just raising awareness. It’s hitting Israel where it hurts: money. American support can’t make up for economic shortfalls.

“I have had a lot of discussions with people holding many views, and I think the right decision at this time is to cancel the show. I’m not too proud to admit I didn’t make the right call on this one.”

Yes, it did on an international level (forget about America). A lot of very famous people - including the world’s top rock stars - refused to play concerts in South Africa, as well (see the song ‘Aint Gonna Play Sun City’). Many ethical businesses pulled their holdings out of the country. Tourism did take a hit. It…

It’s rooted in a similar campaign against South African apartheid.

I hear “Ridiculous Political Considerations” is what they named that new bulldozer which can level a Palestinian house in five minutes flat.