You may recall last year Shurat HaDin Israel Law Centre sued Australian academic Jake Lynch for racial discrimination for his BDS activities. My friend Andrew Hamilton was the lawyer involved. Unfortunately, Shurat HaDin dropped the case and Lynch walked away.
At the time, Lynch denied his BDSholing was racially motivated against Jews.
So let him explain this.
That’s Lynch at a disruptive protest against Colonel Richard Kemp at the University of Sydney, holding money to the face of a Jewish student.
So Mr Lynch, I invited you to explain yourself. I mean, surely this was not an antisemitic gesture, right? Perhaps you just wanted change. Because your actions against Israelis are not racially motivated. I mean, you said so.
In the meantime, I ask the University of Sydney to investigate.
Thank you. Please let us know. (Reminds me of the kids who would throw coins on the sidewalk to see if I would pick them up.)
This time the V2015 ad was replaced by an Im Turtzu ad. It appears they’ve tried to do what V2015 does in reverse. Of course, Im Tirtzu doesn’t have the money V2015 has and they are actually Israelis, if you can imagine such a thing.
(I also see another version of this – ads running to paint Eli Yishai as a Leftist. I don’t know who is running them, but they could throw the election to Hertzog/Livni if he doesn’t make the cut.)
I got some tweets from Im Tirzu. They are not very good at this. Looks like they could use some help from IsraellyCool 🙂
Shurat HaDin didn’t exactly drop the case. They had no choice, as there was no case to answer to. It’s a shame he didn’t listen to the ECAJ (Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Community Leaders)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/israeli-group-drops-case-against-sydney-academic-jake-lynch/story-fn59niix-1226983474575
Exactly the same as in the case of going gung-ho after World Vision Australia.
The kindest thing that can be said about Lynch’s “explanation” that he was holding the money up to warn a woman, out of shot, that he would sue if she didn’t stop physically attacking him, is that it’s hilarious. She’s so far away that there’s a male student between them, and Lynch has room to thrust his arm and body forward, waving the said $5 note. What was she attacking him with? Rockets?
From now on all Pro-Israel talks should take place immediately after Pro-Israeli baseball practice.
As Woody Allen has said, with Nazis “bricks and baseball bats really gets the point across”.