"Death Hippies" Boycott Chapters/Indigo Books

I thought the Wilderness Committee was about saving trees, not cutting down Israel.

But it was on the Wilderness Committee website that I saw an
announcement for Saturday’s launching of a boycott ofChapters-Indigo
books. On the Wilderness website, boycott organizers were provided a full page to remind readers that Israel-supporters Heather Reisman and her
husband Gerry Schwartz are the primary owners of this bookstore chain.
And to warn customers that this couple is up to no good.

A bookstore that kills?”, was the message scrawled on a piece of
beige cardboard held by a twenty-something woman standing by the front
door of Chapters in downtown Vancouver yesterday. She was one of 10 people
standing in front of the Robson St. store, the one in the new building
designed to look like it’s toppling over, the one where you can buy a
book or a Starbucks coffee. The protesters stood holding placards or
handing out leaflets or asking customers to think twice before buying a
book that would put money into the pocket of Heather Reisman. At the
bottom of the placard was a web address for the www. new socialist.

A man in his early twenties with short brown hair stepped toward me
and said politely, “Would you like a flyer?” “Boycott Chapters-Indigo?”
he continued as he handed me a white and black flyer. He had a spiel
and he said it all in one big mouthful: “We’re boycotting Chapters for
their support of Israeli apartheid and Israeli war crimes against
Palestinians and their support of the Israeli defense force. So we’re
boycotting Chapters because of their funding and their support for
that.”

Heather Reisman, being not a new socialist but a smart capitalist,
saw these people coming. She tried to sell a book to customers whose
attention was being turned to Middle Eastern issues. She put “Heather’s
Picks” on prominent display just inside the door of the store.  Heather’s Pick: “Infidel” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
It was billed as “a great book personally chosen and loved by Indigo
CEO Heather Reisman – 20% off, members save 10% more.”  Heather's Pick: "In the Name of Honor" by Mukhtar Mai. Both authors document the pernicious abuse of females by Islamists with whom the leftists
on the sidewalk out front had aligned themselves. Heather was making a
buck and making a point.

Members of Vancouver’s Blue Revolutionary movement also wish to make
a point. There is talk amongst them of holding a future meeting at
Starbucks, inside Chapters, in the building that appears to be toppling
over.

The Blue Revolution is a movement big in France, and budding in
Vancouver and other cities around the world. Blue Revolutionaries take
the attitude that the world is better off with Israel and the U.S. and
that western leftists aligning themselves with Middle Eastern Islamists
are misguided. I spoke to Dag Walker, one of the founders of the
Vancouver Chapter of the Blue Revolutionary. He called the Chapters
boycotters, “Death Hippies.”

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Downtown Eastside Enquirer

The Downtown Eastside Enquirer covered the boycott live yesterday.