Boycott Israel

[P F Tinmore]

Pro-Israel Lobby Groups Secretly Admits Cultural Boycott Is Effective, Leaked Report Shows

 

[Hollie]

Pro-Israel Lobby Groups Secretly Admits Cultural Boycott Is Effective, Leaked Report Shows

Wishful thinking.


The Epic Failure of the BDS Cultural Boycott



Speaking of boycotts, how much welfare money has been stripped from UNRWA?

 

[Mindful]

After refusing to shake hands with Israeli players in the past, Egyptian soccer player Mohamed Salah may leave Premier League football club Liverpool if Arab-Israeli player Moanes Dabour joins the team. Leave blind hate out of sports!


JPost.

 

[Billo_Really]

University of California chiefs oppose any BDS action by faculty

You have no defense for Israel's crimes against humanity, so you try to silence Israel's critics.

Biggest Stories of 2018: Israel Announced Apartheid, Shot Thousands of Civilians
[Israel] ... was founded on a formal racial supremacist principle that Jews must rule the state.

After 1967, Israel acquired substantial colonial possessions in the form of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, in which its leaders began implementing a classic settler colonial regime reminiscent of Apartheid South Africa. The Israeli leadership egregiously violated international law by flooding their own citizens into a militarily occupied territory, and by extensively altering the lifeways of the occupied population.
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Support for BDS will only increase in the coming years until the Palestinians are treated fairly and given the freedom they deserve.

Not only is Israel not the only democracy in the Middle East (that distinction now belongs to Tunisia), it isn’t a democracy at all in the sense of a state of equal citizens able to vote for the government that rules them.​

 

[Hollie]

University of California chiefs oppose any BDS action by faculty

You have no defense for Israel's crimes against humanity, so you try to silence Israel's critics.

Biggest Stories of 2018: Israel Announced Apartheid, Shot Thousands of Civilians
[Israel] ... was founded on a formal racial supremacist principle that Jews must rule the state.

After 1967, Israel acquired substantial colonial possessions in the form of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, in which its leaders began implementing a classic settler colonial regime reminiscent of Apartheid South Africa. The Israeli leadership egregiously violated international law by flooding their own citizens into a militarily occupied territory, and by extensively altering the lifeways of the occupied population.
​

Support for BDS will only increase in the coming years until the Palestinians are treated fairly and given the freedom they deserve.

Not only is Israel not the only democracy in the Middle East (that distinction now belongs to Tunisia), it isn’t a democracy at all in the sense of a state of equal citizens able to vote for the government that rules them.​

“Support for BDS will only increase in the coming years until the Palestinians are treated fairly and given the freedom they deserve”.

On the other hand, I see the BDS’ers being viewed as just another belligerent hate group. With their ties to Islamic terrorist franchises, the Islamist agenda is quite clear.

You need some new heroes.​

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[Sixties Fan]

Airbnb’s Lies Increase Its Legal Vulnerability

 

[P F Tinmore]

18 Highlights of BDS Impact in 2018

18 Highlights of BDS Impact in 2018

 

[Hollie]

Study: BDS Has Zero Impact on Israeli Businesses

 

[Coyote]

Airbnb’s Lies Increase Its Legal Vulnerability

The policy is a boycott against West Bank settlements, not Jews. If the settlements are exclusively Jewish then on has to ask why.

 

[Sixties Fan]

The movement to try to destroy Israel by strangling it economically, through boycotts and the like, is largely the creation of supporters of the Islamist group Hamas, listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Department of State. The goal of the economic assault, often openly acknowledged, is Israel's annihilation. On campuses, the chief promoters of this agenda, members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), follow the lead of off-campus proponents and cast Israel as a European colonial state supposedly planted in the Middle East by the West to subjugate local populations and advance imperial interests in the region.

SJP and the other drivers of the economic attack on Israel have sought to broaden their ranks by invoking their brand of intersectionality: Members of all victimized populations, particularly people touched by European colonialism, ought to join together and rally to the Palestinian cause as the world's paradigmatic example of victimization. They ought to work for the ostensibly world-repairing fix of Israel's destruction.

Many others have pointed out obvious absurdities in the composition of this anti-Israel alliance: feminist groups supporting a cause whose chief adherents routinely abuse women and subject them to enforced subservience and widespread physical, all too often murderous, assault; LGBT advocates embracing those who uniformly mete out the most horrific treatment to LGBT individuals in their midst. But the disconnects from reality go further. It was the Palestinians who were, in fact, the beneficiaries of Western colonialism.

(full article online)

The Other Intersectionality: Victims of Islamism

 

[Shusha]

Airbnb’s Lies Increase Its Legal Vulnerability

The policy is a boycott against West Bank settlements, not Jews.

Its not a policy against settlements (else Western Sahara, Northern Cyprus, Tibet, etc ....). Its a policy specifically and exclusively against Jewish settlements in a certain place in the world. Its a policy of boycott supporting the concept that certain places in the world must be kept clean from Jews (because Arabs demand it and not just in the "West Bank").

But, we've had this discussion before. Let me ask you a different question. Given that the Jewish people absolutely see this as antisemitism and "special treatment for Jews" and given that this suggests a need for more protection and security -- rather than less -- what do you think Israel should do in the face of this sort of boycott action?

 

[P F Tinmore]

How The Split Over BDS Laws Has Come To Test The Limits Of Free Speech
Political expression seen at stake amid rifts in community.

What began as a move by states to fight the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israel has morphed into a fight over free speech that has divided many in the Jewish community who oppose the BDS movement.

Both the Arizona and Kansas anti-BDS laws were ruled unconstitutional by federal courts after the American Civil Liberties Union sued to overturn them on the grounds of free speech. Last week, it sued Texas in behalf of four residents challenging that state’s anti-BDS law that requires government contractors to certify that they are not engaged in boycotts of Israel or territories controlled by Israel. It contended the law violates the First Amendment’s protection against government intrusion into political speech.

A separate suit was filed against the Texas law by Bahia Amawi, a speech language pathologist who has been contracting with the Pflugerville Independent School District for nine years. She has been conducting bilingual Arabic evaluations and early childhood evaluations for Arabic-speaking children. When she was presented with her school contract this year, it contained a rider that required her to sign a statement saying she does not and would not boycott Israel for the duration of the contract. She refused and was terminated.

In her suit, which also names the school district, Amawi, described by her lawyer as a Palestinian-American who has family living in the West Bank, said she “advocates for boycotts of Israel due to Israel’s continuing violations of international law in its treatment of Palestinians. … Speech and advocacy related to the Israel-Palestine conflict is core political speech on a matter of public concern entitled to the highest levels of constitutional protection.”

How The Split Over BDS Laws Has Come To Test The Limits Of Free Speech

 

[Hollie]

How The Split Over BDS Laws Has Come To Test The Limits Of Free Speech
Political expression seen at stake amid rifts in community.

What began as a move by states to fight the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israel has morphed into a fight over free speech that has divided many in the Jewish community who oppose the BDS movement.

Both the Arizona and Kansas anti-BDS laws were ruled unconstitutional by federal courts after the American Civil Liberties Union sued to overturn them on the grounds of free speech. Last week, it sued Texas in behalf of four residents challenging that state’s anti-BDS law that requires government contractors to certify that they are not engaged in boycotts of Israel or territories controlled by Israel. It contended the law violates the First Amendment’s protection against government intrusion into political speech.

A separate suit was filed against the Texas law by Bahia Amawi, a speech language pathologist who has been contracting with the Pflugerville Independent School District for nine years. She has been conducting bilingual Arabic evaluations and early childhood evaluations for Arabic-speaking children. When she was presented with her school contract this year, it contained a rider that required her to sign a statement saying she does not and would not boycott Israel for the duration of the contract. She refused and was terminated.

In her suit, which also names the school district, Amawi, described by her lawyer as a Palestinian-American who has family living in the West Bank, said she “advocates for boycotts of Israel due to Israel’s continuing violations of international law in its treatment of Palestinians. … Speech and advocacy related to the Israel-Palestine conflict is core political speech on a matter of public concern entitled to the highest levels of constitutional protection.”

How The Split Over BDS Laws Has Come To Test The Limits Of Free Speech

Ironic how “free speech” tends to be one-sided in favor of the Islamic Entity.


Top Entertainment Industry Execs Condemn BDS Threats to Sue Netflix Over Israeli Series ‘Fauda’

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[rylah]

Not only is Israel not the only democracy in the Middle East (that distinction now belongs to Tunisia), it isn’t a democracy at all in the sense of a state of equal citizens able to vote for the government that rules them.​

Big lies don't cost too much.

Israel is only 0.2 below the USA on the democracy index, along with most European countries.
as well as the 11th happiest country in the world.

Tunisia is whole 1.66 points below USA and 111th place in the happiness index.

EIU Democracy Index 2017
World Happiness Report - Wikipedia

 

[Coyote]

Airbnb’s Lies Increase Its Legal Vulnerability

The policy is a boycott against West Bank settlements, not Jews.

Its not a policy against settlements (else Western Sahara, Northern Cyprus, Tibet, etc ....). Its a policy specifically and exclusively against Jewish settlements in a certain place in the world. Its a policy of boycott supporting the concept that certain places in the world must be kept clean from Jews (because Arabs demand it and not just in the "West Bank").

That is like saying the boycotts against South Africa were not really about Apartheid otherwise they would have boycotted similar systems in other countries such as Rhodesia. You are essentially saying that one must oppose all such actions across the world or you are guilty of picking on just one ethnicity. That means if one opposes a policy settlement building in occupied/disputed territories in Palestine that opposition is an opposition to Jews living there. That is a fundementally dishonest argument. The opposition is to a nation's policy of building large scale communitees that often include questionably legal or even illegal means of obtaining land from resident communitees.

When you make it about Jews then let me flip the question back to you. The settlement program is almost exclusively Jewish. Isrsel is not building non-Jewish settlements in Area C are they? So is it a policy that ONLY Jews are allowed to move in and build settlements?

But, we've had this discussion before. Let me ask you a different question. Given that the Jewish people absolutely see this as antisemitism and "special treatment for Jews" and given that this suggests a need for more protection and security -- rather than less -- what do you think Israel should do in the face of this sort of boycott action?

From THEIR perspective I would do exactly what they are doing. Fighting it, and exposing the antisemitic elements that are attracted to it for what they are in some cases, and working with other nations to end it.

But you refer to the Jewish People as if they all stand behind this. Do they? Do a majority support the settlements? I do not think so.

 

[rylah]

Airbnb’s Lies Increase Its Legal Vulnerability

The policy is a boycott against West Bank settlements, not Jews.

Its not a policy against settlements (else Western Sahara, Northern Cyprus, Tibet, etc ....). Its a policy specifically and exclusively against Jewish settlements in a certain place in the world. Its a policy of boycott supporting the concept that certain places in the world must be kept clean from Jews (because Arabs demand it and not just in the "West Bank").

That is like saying the boycotts against South Africa were not really about Apartheid otherwise they would have boycotted similar systems in other countries such as Rhodesia. You are essentially saying that one must oppose all such actions across the world or you are guilty of picking on just one ethnicity. That means if one opposes a policy settlement building in occupied/disputed territories in Palestine that opposition is an opposition to Jews living there. That is a fundementally dishonest argument. The opposition is to a nation's policy of building large scale communitees that often include questionably legal or even illegal means of obtaining land from resident communitees.

When you make it about Jews then let me flip the question back to you. The settlement program is almost exclusively Jewish. Isrsel is not building non-Jewish settlements in Area C are they? So is it a policy that ONLY Jews are allowed to move in and build settlements?

But, we've had this discussion before. Let me ask you a different question. Given that the Jewish people absolutely see this as antisemitism and "special treatment for Jews" and given that this suggests a need for more protection and security -- rather than less -- what do you think Israel should do in the face of this sort of boycott action?

From THEIR perspective I would do exactly what they are doing. Fighting it, and exposing the antisemitic elements that are attracted to it for what they are in some cases, and working with other nations to end it.

But you refer to the Jewish People as if they all stand behind this. Do they? Do a majority support the settlements? I do not think so.

Regurgitating Al-Jazeerah talking points to the letter...mah
It is about Jews, it's clear as daylight, no matter how much quasi-intellectual trickery You imply.

 

[RoccoR]

RE: Boycott Israel
⁜→ Coyote, Shusha, Sixties Fan, et al,

Yes, to the question...

But you refer to the Jewish People as if they all stand behind this. Do they? Do a majority support the settlements? I do not think so.

(COMMENT)

The thing that confuses most people's about the End Game. When the dust clears, what is the expectation? Will the Settlements have been a good idea.?

The answer too these simple questions will determine the next steps.

(CURIOSITY)

IF the Israelis decided to withdraw all the settlements; how would that be accomplished? What would a safe and orderly withdraw look like? Remember, the Arab Palestinians kept attacking the Israeli's all through the 2005 withdraw.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[Sixties Fan]

RE: Boycott Israel
⁜→ Coyote, Shusha, Sixties Fan, et al,

Yes, to the question...

But you refer to the Jewish People as if they all stand behind this. Do they? Do a majority support the settlements? I do not think so.

(COMMENT)

The thing that confuses most people's about the End Game. When the dust clears, what is the expectation? Will the Settlements have been a good idea.?

The answer too these simple questions will determine the next steps.

(CURIOSITY)

IF the Israelis decided to withdraw all the settlements; how would that be accomplished? What would a safe and orderly withdraw look like? Remember, the Arab Palestinians kept attacking the Israeli's all through the 2005 withdraw.

Most Respectfully,
R

Why should the Jews withdraw from their ancient homeland, when 80% has already been taken away from them by the Jordanians and Palestinians?

When does the Jewish withdrawal end, and the Arabs/Muslims need for real peace begin, instead of their endless Islamic game or.....we will take our time, until the enemy gives up, as in the time of Mohammad?

Are Jews going to withdraw from Judea, Samaria and the old Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, and give them to the Arabs? Let the Arabs have that land again, as it was from 1948 to 1967? Absolutely Not !!!

Israel has learned the lesson from withdrawing from Gaza without a Peace treaty. It gave up land for endless rockets and attacks on its population.

No more.