Caterpillar Siege Continues
Charles Johnson
Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 7:29 pm PST • Views: 193
One thing you’ve got to admit about the anti-Israel forces (left-wingers allied with radical Palestinians)—they’re relentless.
The groups assigned to keep pressure on Caterpillar (lgf: search) are at it again in Michigan: Protesters in Novi pressure Caterpillar to stop sales to Israel. (Hat tip: Vortec.)
NOVI — About 50 Palestinian-Americans and members of local peace groups demonstrated in front of Michigan CAT today, calling for the halt of the sale of Caterpillar bulldozers to Israel.
The protesters say the D-9 bulldozer, manufactured by Caterpillar, is equipped with armor plating by the Israeli Defense Forces and it has been used to destroy fertile land and 12,000 homes, displacing 70,000 Palestinians in recent years — all in violation of international law and peace agreements.
The protest is part of an international effort to demonstrate against Caterpillar at its factories and outlets. Because of the sales to Israel, the Church of England recently divested itself of stock in the British subsidiary of Caterpillar.
“I think it is really important that corporations be held accountable for their actions, and it is not true that they just sell this machine and what someone uses it for is not their responsibility,” said Mary Thomas of the Palestine Office-Michigan, an organization in Dearborn (lgf: search) that advocates for the rights of Palestinians.
Frank says: