Israel rapidly losing support of Americans: Activist
Press TV has conducted an interview with Joe Catron, a human rights activist in New York, to get his take on a US industrial union’s decision to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Talk to us about the significance of what’s happened. The union with nearly 37,000 members across the United States is a first US national union to endorse the BDS.
Catron: Yes, and I’m totally proud to say the UE was the first union I myself ever happened to work with back in my university days.
I think this is a significant breakthrough particularly in terms of the labor movement. It is as you say certainly the largest labor body in the United States to make this kind of move. But also it’s a broader sign, one among many, of how rapidly Israel is losing the support and the patience of the American people. This is a very noticeable trend with a couple of different causes.
Of course many have paid close attention... increasingly close attention to its crimes in Palestine particularly since its massacre in Gaza last Summer. Again, I don’t think it’s lost on many Americans that the Israel lobby here is the only organized constituency opposing the nuclear agreement with Iran. And that’s costing it additional support and patience that it could have counted on from some quarters in the past.
Press TV: Would you say that the Israeli regime is getting more and more isolated as each day passes by?
Catron: Yes, I think that’s something that’s clear to see. Its own actions are increasingly isolating it. Americans turn on the TV, they see images of Israeli soldier’s committing one atrocity trying to arrest a 12-year-old boy with his arm in a sling or something else. And they look for steps that they can take; at the very least, they certainly don’t have whatever sympathy for the regime they might have held in the past.
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