NUJ Jumps the Megalodon

The British National Union of Journalists at its annual meeting has voted to flex its economic muscle(?) at the hated Israeli occupiers....in a completely professional, non-biased way of course...

The resolution, which passed by a vote of 66 to 54, "calls for a boycott of Israeli goods similar to those boycotts in the struggles against apartheid South Africa led by trade unions and the TUC [Trades Union Congress] to demand sanctions be imposed on Israel by the British government and the United Nations."

And that was their watered down response. They originally wanted to condemn...

...the "savage, pre-planned attack on Lebanon by Israel" last year.

Even discussing the kidnapping of BBC journalist Alan Johnston they still bow (or should I say wallow) to the superior victim status of the Palestinian people...

Passing on a message of thanks to the NUJ from Alan’s family, John Williams said that the tributes to Alan that meant the most were those from his fellow journalists, especially those in Gaza and Ramallah, and he emphasised that it was the Palestinian people themselves who suffer most from this sort of attack on freedom of expression.

No, actually I think Alan Johnston and his loved ones are the ones suffering most.