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[Sixties Fan]

Chris Rock bares soul in roaringly honest Israel debut

 

[Sixties Fan]

Israeli 'Wonder Woman' actress becomes brand ambassador for smartphone maker aiming to make a comeback.

(full article online)

Smartphone company signs Gal Gadot as celebrity spokesperson

 

[Sixties Fan]

South African Zulu King Invokes Fight Against AIDS, Drought, in Plea to ANC Government to Retain Close Israel Ties

 

[P F Tinmore]

Israel’s BDS blacklist is straight out of apartheid. The UK can’t condone it

Israel’s “BDS blacklist”, published in the Israeli media on Sunday, bans 20 charities and human rights groups from entering the country, because they support the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement – a campaign that holds Israel to account over violations of Palestinian rights and international law.

This repressive move is borrowed straight from the playbook of South Africa’s apartheid regime, which had the same aim of silencing critics. Ultimately, Israel’s blacklist will fail, just as South Africa’s did. But first and foremost, the ban calls for a robust condemnation from people of conscience around the world – and the UK government, which continues to
conduct “business as usual” with Israel.

As one of the blacklisted organisations, War on Want is in good company, alongside groups such as the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace and the American Friends Service Committee – a US Quaker group awarded a Nobel peace prize in 1947 for assisting people persecuted by the Nazis.

Barring foreign advocates of human rights and international law is the latest in a string of increasingly frantic attempts to gag critics of the Israeli government’s unjust and illegal policies, and to intimidate the growing global movement in defence of Palestinian rights.

Israel’s BDS blacklist is straight out of apartheid. The UK can’t condone it | Asad Rehman

 

[Sixties Fan]

Israel’s BDS blacklist is straight out of apartheid. The UK can’t condone it

Israel’s “BDS blacklist”, published in the Israeli media on Sunday, bans 20 charities and human rights groups from entering the country, because they support the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement – a campaign that holds Israel to account over violations of Palestinian rights and international law.

This repressive move is borrowed straight from the playbook of South Africa’s apartheid regime, which had the same aim of silencing critics. Ultimately, Israel’s blacklist will fail, just as South Africa’s did. But first and foremost, the ban calls for a robust condemnation from people of conscience around the world – and the UK government, which continues to
conduct “business as usual” with Israel.

As one of the blacklisted organisations, War on Want is in good company, alongside groups such as the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace and the American Friends Service Committee – a US Quaker group awarded a Nobel peace prize in 1947 for assisting people persecuted by the Nazis.

Barring foreign advocates of human rights and international law is the latest in a string of increasingly frantic attempts to gag critics of the Israeli government’s unjust and illegal policies, and to intimidate the growing global movement in defence of Palestinian rights.

Israel’s BDS blacklist is straight out of apartheid. The UK can’t condone it | Asad Rehman

Asad Rehman moves to War on Want | Third Sector
https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/asad-rehman-moves-war-want/management/.../1433336
May 12, 2017 - Asad Rehman is the new executive director of the anti-poverty charity War on Want.

(All together now........Ahhhhhhhhhh)

 

[P F Tinmore]

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel: How Effective Is It?

 

[P F Tinmore]

Palestine Legal Receives Academic Freedom Award

Palestine Legal has been awarded the Middle East Studies Association of North America's (MESA) 2017 Academic Freedom Award.

The award, which has been given since 2001, is "presented on appropriate occasions in recognition of sustained contributions in support of academic freedom in the Middle East and North Africa, and/or in North America."

Working with organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the National Lawyers Guild, Palestine Legal also engages in advocacy against administrative initiatives that could censor free speech on campus, makes recommendations to administrators, and files lawsuits to defend the constitutional rights of students and faculty.

Dima Khalidi, Director of Palestine Legal, acknowledging receipt of the award, stated:

Many thanks to MESA for this honor. The intensifying attacks on academics whose scholarship and public advocacy touch on the Palestinian experience are part of a larger assault on the movement for Palestinian rights, on the First Amendment and on truth itself in this dystopian political moment. We are proud to defend the right to dissent that is so essential to academia and our free society.

Palestine Legal Receives Academic Freedom Award

 

[Sixties Fan]

The Future Does Not Belong to Those Who Slander Israel

 

[P F Tinmore]

Israeli 'Wonder Woman' actress becomes brand ambassador for smartphone maker aiming to make a comeback.

(full article online)

Smartphone company signs Gal Gadot as celebrity spokesperson

Cool, very attractive woman.

 

[rylah]

Israeli 'Wonder Woman' actress becomes brand ambassador for smartphone maker aiming to make a comeback.

(full article online)



Smartphone company signs Gal Gadot as celebrity spokesperson

Cool, very attractive woman.

16 Arabs from Israel making a difference on the world stage

Kossay Omary and Rabeeh Khoury developed one of the smallest computers in the world.

They’re not the only Arab Israelis making waves in the global community. Jamil R. Mazzawi founded Optima Design Automation, a startup developing software for self-driving cars. Mahmoud Huleihel made a breakthrough in the field of male infertility.

“There are so many excellent Arab experts that even many within Arab society don’t know about them,” says Makbula Nassar, manager of the A-List project, an online database of Arab Israeli superstars making strides in culture, sports, medicine, environment, fashion, diplomacy, education and technology.

Muslim, Christian, Druze, Bedouin, Baha’i, Circassian and other Arab Israelis make up 21 percent of the country’s population, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

ISRAEL21c highlights 16 of the many Arabs in Israel making a difference on the world stage, listed here in random order....

 

[Sixties Fan]

In the wake of the predictable faux outrage over Israel banning members of various anti-Israel groups from entering, it is fun to look at a list of people banned from entering the UK on Wikipedia.

It is an interesting list, because it shows how much latitude the UK's Home Office uses in its (often secret) decisions to ban people from entering the country, often only because they are controversial.

But no one is accusing the UK of not being "democratic" because of the list of people they ban, and the probably much longer list that we don't know about.

Every country has the right to decide who can visit or not. And every country does.

(full article online)

The UK bans people from entering, and no one protests. But when Israel does it... ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[Sixties Fan]

As has been the case in previous years (see related articles below), Israel related content produced by the BBC during 2017 frequently included contributions or information sourced from NGOs.

BBC editorial guidelines on impartiality state:

“We should not automatically assume that contributors from other organisations (such as academics, journalists, researchers and representatives of charities) are unbiased and we may need to make it clear to the audience when contributors are associated with a particular viewpoint, if it is not apparent from their contribution or from the context in which their contribution is made.”

However, in the vast majority of cases audiences were not informed of the political agenda of the organisations and their representatives promoted in BBC content and on some occasions the connection of an interviewee to a particular NGO was not revealed at all.

(full article online)

Promoted and quoted: the BBC’s preferred NGO contributors in 2017

 

[Sixties Fan]

The UK has more children under 18 in prison than Israel has in custody - 912, as of November, compared to about 300 in Israeli detention.

The UK's youth prisons are hotbeds of gang violence and makeshift weapons, and children are deprived of basic social services. One child dies in a UK prison every month!

The government is doing little to fix the problems.

Imagine the outcry if, say, France or Germany would publicly reproach the UK over its treatment of child prisoners. Imagine if Netanyahu issued a statement of concern over whether Great Britain is really doing everything it can to reduce the11% of incarcerated youths who have attempted suicide.

No one blinks when Western nations chide Israel for its actions, but they would never say a word about any other Western nation's actions.

(full article online)

British MP criticizes Israel, supports violent rioters and Ahed Tamimi. It is worse than a double standard. ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[Sixties Fan]

Prof. Gerald Steinberg, the president of the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, told the Post that “for many years, UK officials, like their European counterparts, have presided over the transfer of billions of pounds to Palestinian frameworks. For the most part, there was little transparency or accountability, allowing funds to flow from DFID, in particular, to the PLO and from there to terrorists and allied NGOs.”

Steinberg added that “bureaucrats and political officials who support the Palestinian cause turn a blind eye when taxpayer money directly and indirectly goes to the terrorists who slaughter Israelis. This is starting to change as responsible ministry officials take more control, but stronger regulations, as well as more transparency over the entire funding process involving Palestinians (including through UNRWA and UNICEF), are urgently needed.”

(full article online)

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-C...e-into-funds-for-Palestinian-terrorism-533547

 

[P F Tinmore]

So you post three Israeli propaganda organizations in a row.

Priceless.

 

[Sixties Fan]

So you post three Israeli propaganda organizations in a row.

Priceless.

Still unable to discuss any of the points made in all three articles.

Point taken.

 

[fanger]

As has been the case in previous years (see related articles below), Israel related content produced by the BBC during 2017 frequently included contributions or information sourced from NGOs.

BBC editorial guidelines on impartiality state:

“We should not automatically assume that contributors from other organisations (such as academics, journalists, researchers and representatives of charities) are unbiased and we may need to make it clear to the audience when contributors are associated with a particular viewpoint, if it is not apparent from their contribution or from the context in which their contribution is made.”

However, in the vast majority of cases audiences were not informed of the political agenda of the organisations and their representatives promoted in BBC content and on some occasions the connection of an interviewee to a particular NGO was not revealed at all.

(full article online)

Promoted and quoted: the BBC’s preferred NGO contributors in 2017

bbcwatch is an organisation set up to pressurise the BBC into producing news coverage more favourable to Israel. It is owned and run by Trevor Asserson, [1] an English solicitor now based in Israel. According to The Lawyer his Jerusalam based law firm Asserson Law is the first UK law firm based in another country. [2] Other named individuals who have been involved in the operation include Elisheva Mironi, [3] Lee Kern, [4] Michael Paluch, [5] Deena Pinson, [6] Ariella Kalms and Robin Stamler. [7]

According to its own account bbcwatch was established in 2000, [8] but it did not produce its first report until March 2002. [9] It was incorporated as a UK limited company in February 2004 and dissolved in November 2007. According to its only accounts filed the issue of shares to Trevor Asserson was the company's only transaction. [10] Whilst the company BBCWatch Ltd has been dissolved, the organisation continues to produce reports attacking BBC reporting.

bbcwatch produced a number of reports detailing BBC output and incidents or trends evidencing a perceived bias. For example the organisation's first report, entitled 'The BBC and the Middle East - a Critical Study', argued amongst other things that the BBC should use the pejorative term 'terrorism' to describe Hamas; that the West Bank and Gaza should not be described as ‘occupied Palestinian Land’ or ‘occupied Palestinian territories’ since it suggests that there previously existed an 'autonomous sovereign Palestinian territory'; that Yasser Arafat should not be described as 'President' or 'Presidential'; and that the illegal settlements in the West Bank and Gaza should not be described as being 'illegal' but instead referred to as settlements in 'disputed territories'. [11]
BBCwatch - Wikispooks

 

[fanger]

The UK has more children under 18 in prison than Israel has in custody - 912, as of November, compared to about 300 in Israeli detention.

The UK's youth prisons are hotbeds of gang violence and makeshift weapons, and children are deprived of basic social services. One child dies in a UK prison every month!

The government is doing little to fix the problems.

Imagine the outcry if, say, France or Germany would publicly reproach the UK over its treatment of child prisoners. Imagine if Netanyahu issued a statement of concern over whether Great Britain is really doing everything it can to reduce the11% of incarcerated youths who have attempted suicide.

No one blinks when Western nations chide Israel for its actions, but they would never say a word about any other Western nation's actions.

(full article online)

British MP criticizes Israel, supports violent rioters and Ahed Tamimi. It is worse than a double standard. ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

A
majority of the deaths – 54 – were classified as “self-inflicted” and of these 29 occurred in single cells, raising concerns about the quality of risk assessments on inmate placed by themselves.

Of the 54 suicides, all but one were hangings and involved the use of cell windows, light fittings, shoelaces and bunk beds. Of the remaining deaths, three were classified as “natural causes”, two were categorised as “unknown” at the time of writing and four were homicides, which also raise questions about prison health and safety, particularly in light of the murder of 19-year-old Zahid Mubarek by his cellmate Robert Stewart, a known violent racist with mental health problems, in Feltham young offenders’ institution in March 2000.

Of the 65 deaths, 62 were aged from 18-24 years and three were children under 18 years, with the youngest being 15-year-old Alex Kelly who was found hanging in his cell in January 2012.
Youth prison deaths prompt calls for reform

 

[Roudy]

[ And it was about time ]


The committee, announced on Sunday by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Interior Minister Arye Deri, will locate activists for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement who are in the country, and will prevent BDS activists from entering.

The task force “is a necessary step in light of the malicious intentions of delegitimization activists who act to spread lies and twist the reality in our region,” Erdan said in his announcement, the Jerusalem Post reported. Erdan also serves as Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy Minister.

Read more: Israeli Government Task Force Formed to Locate, Deport BDS Activists

Didn't they try something similar two years ago? Israel to crack down further on foreign pro-Palestinian activists

"This latest weapon in the intensifying Israeli legal, espionage and propaganda war against the BDS movement for Palestinian rights is a strong indicator of how desperate and irrational Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid has become in its futile attempts to hinder the impressive growth of the BDS movement around the world.”

A list of zionist supporters living outside israel should also be compiled, for use in the future

I just LOVEEEEE your source where it calls Israel government a REGIME, and how IRRATIONAL it is.

This part:

"settler-colonialism and apartheid has become in its futile attempts to hinder the impressive growth of the BDS movement around the world.”

is even better.

(no need to click on the link to find an Israel/Jew hating site)


The words the author wrote says it all.

And you posting it here, continues to say it all about you.

About BDS being deported from Israel......


Stay Tuned

At least they didn't call Israel "the Zionist entity" as their favorite source to quote Iranian / Hezbollah "press Tv" often does. LOL.

 

[Sixties Fan]

BDS black-lists, naive Jews and rabid Nazis. It has been quite a week