Bds

[Jos]

Delta Air Lines boycotts Israeli snack?

American airline stops serving Achva halva on its flights from Israel after passengers complain product manufactures in 'illegal' settlements.

Delta Air Lines boycotts Israeli snack? - Israel Travel, Ynetnews
Little by little, bit by bit, If you want BDS to bite you have to work at it

 

[Moonglow]

and they cut out the peanuts

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Delta Air Lines boycotts Israeli snack?

American airline stops serving Achva halva on its flights from Israel after passengers complain product manufactures in 'illegal' settlements.

Delta Air Lines boycotts Israeli snack? - Israel Travel, Ynetnews
Little by little, bit by bit, If you want BDS to bite you have to work at it

WRONG​

Embarrassment as Anti-Israel Claims Debunked
"BDS" campaigners widely trumpeted their latest "success" - only for it to be revealed as false.​

First Publish: 8/6/2013, 10:44 AM


Pro-Israel activists have derided the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) anti-Israel movement, after a widely-trumpeted "success" in their campaign to isolate Israel was revealed to have been fabricated.

In the last few years, anti-Israel activists have embarked on a campaign to isolate the State of Israel politically and economically, calling for international boycotts and sanctions against the Jewish state. Having failed to convince major investors to divest, and in the face of a continuously-strengthening Israeli economy, the movement has largely focused its efforts on small, symbolic battles against Israeli companies which manufacture products such as snacks and beauty products.

But it seems that even that tactic isn't quite working.

Last week, Electronic Intifada, a blog aligned with the BDS movement, announced its latest "victory," claiming that Delta Air Lines had decided to stop serving a snack produced in the Barkan Industrial Zone, due to its location in Samaria. Electronic Intifada claimed that the decision was made after a complaint was lodged by a member of the far-left "Coalition of Women for Peace," publishing what it said was the text of an email in which the airline said that it would be dropping the product. The blog's editor, Ali Abunima, claimed that "Delta Air Lines lawyers ruled that Israeli settlement-made snacks should not be served."

Veteran Israeli activist Avi Mayer, however, was unconvinced, and promptly discovered that claims of a boycott were completely false.

In a letter to Mayer (which he promptly published on his Facebook page), the airline explained that the snack in question - a vanilla halva bar - had indeed been removed, but only as a result of "a normal catering cycle and review," in which the in-flight menu regularly changes.

But there was more. Not only were reports of a boycott unfounded, but Delta's representative explained that more than 1,000 Israeli-made items are "sourced by our local caterer," adding: "the snack (fruit) that replaced the bar is grown locally in Israel. Delta makes a practice of sourcing local goods for catering in most international markets we serve."

Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Mayer said he saw the revelation as proof that the BDS movement "has reached the point of desperation," pointing to a number of similarly fabricated claims of BDS "success."

"Their efforts continue to rack up one devastating failure after another, and so they find themselves scraping the bottom of the barrel and, when necessary, simply making stuff up. This has happened time and time again," he said, noting that "it seems to be happening with increasing frequency."

"When singer Lenny Kravitz cancelled a trip to Israel last year, BDS activists hailed it as a victory. It didn't really matter to them that Kravitz has said clearly that he was cancelling for totally unrelated reasons, was personally disappointed, and would visit Israel in the near future.

"When Sylvester Stallone, Claude Van Damme, and Bruce Willis cancelled a planned appearance in Israel last year, BDS advocates rejoiced. But the actors' cancellation was due to the death of Stallone's son, Sage, and had nothing at all to do with BDS - in fact, Stallone and Willis had both signed a statement of support for Israel several years earlier, along with Danny De Vito, Serena Williams, Nicole Kidman, Michael Douglas, and dozens of other celebrities.

"Also last year, Irish writer Gerard Donovan made a point of slapping down suggestions that his cancellation of a visit to Israel had anything to do with BDS. Explaining that he was recovering from cancer, Donovan said he wouldn't be 'bullied or cajoled' into caving to the BDS'ers' demands. 'If I had been well, I would have gone to Jerusalem,' he said. 'Nobody tells me where I can or cannot read my work.'"

In a scathing summary of the BDS movement as a whole, he added:

"The BDS Movement's tactics are clear: bully, threaten, and - if all else fails - just plain lie. The hallmarks of a failed movement."

Embarrassment as Anti-Israel Claims Debunked - Global Agenda - News - Israel National News

 

[Jos]

Lets hope for more "normal catering cycle and review" as far as the zionist entity is concerned

 

[Ringel05]

In Jos's case BDS stands for:

:Blovate
:Disparage
:Spin

 

[MHunterB]

I thought it was more like

Bigoted

Demented

Spewage

 

[proudveteran06]

Delta Air Lines boycotts Israeli snack?

American airline stops serving Achva halva on its flights from Israel after passengers complain product manufactures in 'illegal' settlements.

HAPPY TO HEAR IT! What else can one expect from Delta?


snopes.com: Delta Airlines - No Jews or Bibles

 

[Bloodrock44]

Delta Air Lines boycotts Israeli snack?

American airline stops serving Achva halva on its flights from Israel after passengers complain product manufactures in 'illegal' settlements.

HAPPY TO HEAR IT! What else can one expect from Delta?


snopes.com: Delta Airlines - No Jews or Bibles

Hey PV...long time...how have you been?

 

[Roudy]

In Jos's case BDS stands for:

:Blovate
:Disparage
:Spin

Actually it stands for:

Bowel
Discharge
Syndrome

and BDS members are called: BDSholes. LOL

 

[irosie91]

that which I find MOST fascinating is ---the ISA-RESPECTERS imagine that we forgot
that economic boycott of Israel had been going on since 1948-----and it never
worked for them In fact---- the very earliest islamo nazi isa-respecting priopaganda
which I read -----way back in the late 50s----(at about the time I first learned the
ABC's)-----involved attempts to outlaw charitable contributions to hospitals
in Israel by Jewish citizens of the USA. At that time there were very vigorous
attempts to PROVE----that jews were handing the entire gross national product
of the USA to Israel -----dollar by dollar. My own mother did contribute two dollars
each year to the Children's Orphanage in Jerusalem---for which she got a calendar---

an interesting story-----a pakistani friend noticed the calendar with its picture of
a woman lighting candles and asked me what it was. I explained-----he grabbed
the calendar and THREW it on the floor. SHEEESH---they were really serious about
that BOYCOTT thing

 

[proudveteran06]

Delta Air Lines boycotts Israeli snack?



HAPPY TO HEAR IT! What else can one expect from Delta?


snopes.com: Delta Airlines - No Jews or Bibles

Hey PV...long time...how have you been?

HI ! How have you been???? :

 

[Bloodrock44]

Hey PV...long time...how have you been?

HI ! How have you been???? :

Retired and loving it!!!