On Fri, 2019-07-26 at 19:18 -0300, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Tomorrow morning in "Sala de Videoconferencia", there will be an open > discussion regarding political concerns around holding DebConf20 in > Israel. Everyone at DebConf is welcome to join this session. > > Read the full description on the DC19 website for more details > : > "Let's talk about the elephant in the room": > https://debconf19.debconf.org/talks/173-lets-talk-about-the-elephant-in- > the-room/
>From that page: +-------------------------------------------------------------------- | We need to have an open discussion about the political message that | this project decision sends, and how it affects the people within | our community who support the BDS (Boycott, Disinvestment, | Sanctions) movement against the policies of the Israeli Government, | all the while reiterating our support to the individual members of | the local organizing team, who are our peers in Debian. | | A campaign has been brewing for a few weeks, calling on the DebConf | Committee and the Debian Community to rescind the decision of | holding the project’s yearly conference in Israel. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- The BDS movement is widely described as antisemitic. Why should we care about it? To be very honest: if people suggest to kick out people for not agreeing with same-sex marriage, but apparently care about accomodate antisemitic movements, that also sends a political message. One that I don't like very much. Given that the thread on -discuss that started it had such "fun" allegations such as +------------------------------------------------------------------ | Any DD who lives in Israel is a direct contributor financially and | morally to apartheid and genocide against the Palestinian people. | [...] | There is no such thing as an innocent Israeli just like there is no | such thing as a innocent Nazi. +--[ https://lists.debian.org/debconf-discuss/2019/03/msg00041.html ] did not really improve my view on the group asking for this... (It rather contributed to the description of BDS as antisemitic.) Does it really need a discussion to say "no" to this? Ansgar
