dear bono

17Feb10

Out-of-date rock star receives Santa Claus-style wishlist, reports the Aboriginal News Group:

Dear Bono,

We call on you now not to grant legitimacy to a state that practices the most pernicious form of colonialism and apartheid.

[…]

Rather than shifting the blame from the violence of the colonial oppressor to the resistance of the indigenous oppressed and characterizing the Palestinians as a population filled with “rage and despair,” it is more apt to consider them among the “aroused citizenry” responding to tyranny – Israel‘s regime of occupation and apartheid.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.