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Scuffles in Johnston Court anti-Israeli protest

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  • 26-01-2011 12:32am
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    dingding
    Registered Users Posts: 4,931 ✭✭✭


    http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=12897

    There were some minor scuffles in Johnston Court in Sligo on Saturday afternoon when protesters from The North West branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held an impromptu protest when the activists became aware that a stall had been set up by Premier Dead Sea Cosmetics in the shopping mall.

    The IPSC has called on shopping centres throughout the region not to allow stalls selling Dead Sea cosmetic products, or any other produce emanating from the occupied West Bank or Israel, to operate on their property


    What do you think, would you be in favour of the protest, or do you think that the shop assistants deserve to be able to work without this hassle / risk to their jobs.

    Regarding the Johnstons Court Protest 19 votes

    I am in favour of the protest.
    0% 0 votes
    I am against the protest
    57% 11 votes
    I don't think it makes any difference
    36% 7 votes
    I don't care
    5% 1 vote


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    Truley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    While I'm very against the activities of Isreal and support the protest in principle, I don't think they should be harassing people in their place of work like this. By all means encourage a boycott, I have been avoiding these stalls for years for this very reason. I think there are less provocative/ more effective ways of going about it.


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    dingding
    Registered Users Posts: 4,931 ✭✭✭dingding


    Latest News:-

    The shop has been forced to close by the shopping centre to prevent further protests by the IPSC.

    http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/ipsc/displayRelease.php?releaseID=429

    From http://www.ipsc.ie/


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    Pete M.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Pete M.


    dingding wrote: »
    Latest News:-

    The shop has been forced to close by the shopping centre to prevent further protests by the IPSC.

    http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/ipsc/displayRelease.php?releaseID=429

    From http://www.ipsc.ie/

    No shop had to be closed. It was just a stall.

    May have become a shop if they left it there any length though and eventually a settlement....


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    sligometalhead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭sligometalhead


    Truley wrote: »
    While I'm very against the activities of Isreal and support the protest in principle, I don't think they should be harassing people in their place of work like this. By all means encourage a boycott, I have been avoiding these stalls for years for this very reason. I think there are less provocative/ more effective ways of going about it.

    The guys doing the selling were not harassed. The only people who harrassed anyone was one of the traders who started physically pushing one of those protesting around


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