Did you think it particularly ill-timed

that the National Union of Journalists passed a motion proposing a boycott of Israeli goods even while one of their own members, Alan Johnston, has been kidnapped and may have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists?

Adloyada quotes a source who claims that the editor of the NUJ’s house journal has admitted it was a quid pro pro for the support of the Palestinian journalists’ union in the campaign to free Johnston.

If this turns out to be correct, I can sympathise with their motives. But paying the Danegeld encourages the Dane to come again.