Greetings, Israel continues to commit unlawful punishment and crimes against Humanity upon the Palestinian Peoples.

It matters not, to me, what religion law breakers profess to follow; oppression, apartheid, occupation, theft of land, destruction of property, denial of Human Rights, murder, all of these are criminal acts deserving International sanction and punishment.

The United States of America is obviously not using its power to resolve this decade’s long criminal occupation, instead, choosing to support Israel and this criminal enterprise.

Thus the U.S.A. is also criminally culpable; AS ARE Nations such as my own, Australia, cravenly following the U.S.\Israeli cowardly unethical directive, o for a Government that speaks for us people.

Religion is irrelevant; these criminal acts originate in the decisions and actions of the Israeli and American Governments.

World opinion is near unanimous on this point; Israel and the U.S.A. is criminally culpable in the occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian Peoples from the land which is their birthright. The Palestinian Peoples are an integral part of the great Diaspora of “Semites”; they have a claim to the land that none of the incoming immigrants can match.

I call upon members of the United Nations Security Council together with The General Assembly, to re-affirm the many past resolutions condemning Israel, and to institute lawful effective procedures, by force if necessary, to remove all settlers from land internationally recognised as the State of Palestine.

Such action would help restore the U.N.’s ethical and moral reason to exist, and remind all members to read again their responsibilities to the Founding Charter. The Palestinian question is deserving of resolution, not just lip-service.

Further, that the United Nations creates a peace keeping force to stay with Palestine until Palestine is peacefully established,
regards. THOMAS W. ADAMS.

The "no"-flyer on the facebook page (linked) uses a thick purple border. In Catholic ritual, purple is a mourning color. For example, a death letter envelope has this purple border - that's what shows before you have read a name. In Ireland, with its Catholic cultural background, this is an association not added by coincidence. Sure purple is one of the university's colors too, but is never used as a border and the accompanying green and white colors are not used in the flyer.

Firstly, this is my second attempt to post a comment. I guess the editorial board of the Electric Intifada is afraid that someone's comment opposing the BDS movement will weaken its legitimacy, if indeed it has any. So, I fear it will not permit this message to be posted. My last post can be summarized as follows. The NUI Galway students show their ignorance of their own history of the foundation of a free Republic of Ireland. As students read about the relationship between the Dail Eireann, Michael Collins and Robert Briscoe with Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the Jewish fight for a free State of Israel. I personally met Mr Briscoe when he was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. He was a great man. If either he or Michael Collins were alive today they both would be ashamed of the NUI Galway student body. Students you still have a chance to honor their ideals and memories as well as your own courage by disavowing your last vote and exposing the hypocrisy and anti-Semitism of the BDS movement.

'' There are two stages through which worthwhile ideas must pass before they are accepted. In the first stage they are ignored, and in the second they are ridiculed''
The ideals of the BDS campaign have successfully passed these two stages and are becoming daily more widely accepted as a necessary process. Keep the faith.