The Ontario arm of CUPE aparently voted to “boycott Israel” today. Instead of ranting, I’m gonna make a nice ordered list of why I think this is idiotic.
- CUPE is a Canadian national organization that has no place in international affairs.
- The fact that it even has time to consider international issues means that it is trying to find ways to maintain relevancy in a day when unions in general are no longer needed.
- A crisis remains in York University after its CUPE local of Contract faculty and TAs striked for 11 weeks. CUPE should have had that issue at the forefront of its concerns then, and it should remain so now.
- Sid Ryan is an idiot and an anti-semite.
- Their issue with Israel is its supposed apartheid agains Palestine. Yet, much less controversial (read, widely accepted) issues remain unnoticed, such as oh.. well how about Chinese human rights violations as an example.
But most of all… Sid Ryan is an idiot. Wait I said that already. Eh. Can’t say it enough. Sid Ryan is an idiot…