tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578122.post6989662646723349128..comments2023-11-02T05:48:48.115-04:00Comments on GayandRight: The Truth about KAIROS....GayandRighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08763498369390166108noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578122.post-24023627304321412262010-01-20T12:10:54.198-05:002010-01-20T12:10:54.198-05:00Embassy Magazine, Canada's renowned foreign af...Embassy Magazine, Canada's renowned foreign affairs magazine, gives NGO Monitor a spankin':<br /><br />Embassy Magazine, jan 20:<br />'Calling out NGO Monitor'<br />(Embassy magazine's editorial slams NGO Monitor, Kenney + Harper)<br /><a rel="nofollow">http://embassymag.ca/page/view/edit-01-20-2010</a><br /><br />'The truth about KAIROS, NGO Monitor'<br />(KAIROS' exec direc washes Steinberg and NGO Monitor's mouth out with soap)<br /><a rel="nofollow">http://embassymag.ca/page/view/corkery-01-20-2010</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578122.post-84215338849029191422010-01-19T17:40:58.634-05:002010-01-19T17:40:58.634-05:00This is straight from NGO Monitor.
Other organisat...This is straight from NGO Monitor.<br />Other organisations NGO Monitor criticizes: Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, World Vision Canada, Oxfam Canada, etc, etc. NGO Monitor is a joke.<br /><br />1)KAIROS has repeatedly been attacked for supporting a boycott, and this has repeatedly been denied by KAIROS. Its position has been constant, was arrived at consensually by all the major Canadian Churches, and never supported a boycott. Divestment is a much more subtle process, and it is irresponsible to assert that anyone deliberating on divestment is 'anti-semitic'.<br /><br />2) the accusation that KAIROS describes Zionism as an "ideology of empire, colonialism, and militarism" is repeated over and over by NGO Monitor, most recently in Embassy magazine. This is also completely false. NGO Monitor is referring to a press release linked to from KAIROS' Resources and Actions page by Sabeel called 'Challenging Christian Zionism'.<br />First off, the quote is from Sabeel, not KAIROS; second, they're talking about *Christian Zionism*, not *Zionism*. If you don't know the difference you need to do a whole lot of research, and quit yapping until you've done it. The second wants a Jewish state, the first wants a Jewish state as a precursor to Armageddon where everyone who ain't Christian gets fried (including Jews who haven't converted). Calling it an "ideology of empire, colonialism, and militarism" is sweet talkin'.<br /><br />3) There is a big difference between boycotting and divestment.<br />Here's their policy, set out long before Jason Kenney's inflammatory statements (he seems to have his tail between his legs now):<br />http://kairoscanada.org/fileadmin/fe/files/PDF/HRTrade/Pal-Isr/Paper_EconomicAdvocacyMeasures_Jan08.pdf<br /><br />4) What a surprise that a disclaimer was added (there were already disclaimers on other projects). When Bozos like NGO Monitor can't tell the difference between KAIROS policy and a Sabeel Press Release, nor the difference between Christian Zionism and Zionism, and then go publicising their ignorance to everyone who will listen, then I guess an organization needs to start making things a little more obvious.mesmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578122.post-86639990649223211062010-01-03T03:19:49.719-05:002010-01-03T03:19:49.719-05:00Whoever approved their funding in the first place ...Whoever approved their funding in the first place should be fired. <br /><br />Fascist 'progressives' can fund their hatreds themselves.Philanthropistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578122.post-12309353878003136932010-01-03T00:07:55.289-05:002010-01-03T00:07:55.289-05:00So true! I visited the Karios site after the issu...So true! I visited the Karios site after the issue of de-funding came up and I was shocked at the kinds of things they have been doing -- and their expectation that the government would continue to fund them. I don't care which side of the political spectrum one is on, the government should not be funding lobby groups.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com