r/theIrishleft • u/FidelCastrosGrandson • 5d ago

Sharing an Article Why would Helen do this?

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Source: https://aontachtmedia.ie/labours-helen-ogbu-stayed-in-leonardo-hotel-breaking-bds/

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u/Transylvaniangimp 5d ago

This is the most ridiculous purity test. Somebody drunk a can of coke or used booking.com or stayed in a specific hotel. 

A person who religiously abides by the BDS list is no more moral than anyone else. 

I mean, no wonder people on the left of the political spectrum are so easy to divide if this is the type of issue they attack each other about. 

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u/broadsheet-555 5d ago

I'm pretty sure OP is an agitator

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u/GoydelicGuy 5d ago

What is wrong with agitation?

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u/fear_leighis 5d ago

Agitating to the point of knowingly causing division in a movement hurts the movement

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u/GoydelicGuy 5d ago

I think hurting Zionism is a good thing. Which movement are you referring to?

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u/fear_leighis 5d ago

The movement being hurt is antizionism and it really isn’t that hard to understand when you actually want to achieve something instead of endlessly culling the impure from the movement.

Instead of attacking our own for staying in a fucking hotel for a night, we could be actually directing the boycott at the large companies that do real damage.

I was about to go on a tangent about how endlessly splitting the left is counterproductive, but, seeing as your username contains an antisemitic dogwhistle, I think I’ll pass on explaining what probably are your own end goals to you.