“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.” — Winston Churchill
“Fury as Green councillor demands British seaside town DROP twin link to Israeli city over ‘genocide,'” by James Saunders, GB News, July 19, 2024:
Bournemouth has been urged to drop ties with an Israeli city by one of its Green Party councillors as the backlash to the country’s military offensive in Gaza rumbles on.
The Greens’ Joe Salmon, who sits on Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council, said the South Coast town should “de-twin” from Netanya in Israel – another famed beach resort – to protect its “reputation”.
Bournemouth has been twinned with Netanya since 1995 – but Salmon said the former should sever its relationship with the latter over the “plausible case for genocide” against Israel raised by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Four signs which display Bournemouth’s twin cities – Netanya, alongside Lucerne in Switzerland – had had plaques containing the Israeli city’s name removed in a co-ordinated campaign which sparked protests and counter-protests outside Bournemouth’s town hall.
Members of the seaside town’s Jewish community launched pro-Israel demonstrations – while pro-Palestine activists also showed up to counter-protest as police watched on in case of clashes.
Salmon had noted that the twinning initiative was “rooted in fostering mutual respect, cultural exchange and the promotion of peace and understanding” – but hit out at Israel’s “apartheid” as he called for ties to be cut.
He said: “When the actions and policies of a sister town’s nation contradict these values, it becomes imperative to reconsider and potentially sever such ties.
“Currently, the ongoing human rights violations, system of apartheid imposed on Palestinians in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories and the plausible case for genocide… necessitate a reassessment of our twinning relationship with our sister town in Israel.”
Holocaust survivor Henry Schachter, a member of the town’s Jewish community, said: “We have been keeping a very low profile so as not to antagonise the Palestinian supporter group.
“But after nine months of this protesting, Jewish people are starting to get a bit fed up. It’s time we have a little bit of kickback.”…
SC says
Treat him like the commie prick he is. Recall his ass. (Fire him)
John Smith says
I’m sure Mr Joe Salmon would have no objection if Bournemouth was twin-linked to a city in Iran or Yemen.
England Invaded says
The muzzi scum have been taking over the Greens since Labour let them down slightly.
JS says
Sounds like the IslamoLabour government has already become a fascist and apartheid state, and soon to be a failed state as well!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Israel should be the one dropping such arrangements w/ England. Dunno how much tourism that brings in, but maybe Israel could replace UK w/ Argentina in its city-twinning program
jerry glenn says
UK surges in the international Islamopandering derby.