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Four years after announcing divestment over West Bank activity, seen as major BDS achievement, major finance firm reverses move

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Dutch pensions group removes Israeli banks from blacklist

 

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IKEA to open smallest-yet Israeli store at Tel Aviv Port

 

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Other reports of the PM's statement were translated as saying "If they want to withdraw the championships’ hosting rights from Malaysia, then they can try to do so."

Now it is up to the International Federation for Paralympic Swimming to decide if they are going to live by their own ethical standards or cave to Malaysia's challenge.




It is difficult to do the right thing. It would cost a lot of time and money to move or cancel the event. It would cause a great deal of anguish and disappointment, especially among the athletes.

But it is the right thing to do. And it should be done loudly and publicly, so other sports organizations can deal with similar issues up front.

I hope the International Federation for Paralympic Swimming is already doing the following:

1) Informing athletes and coaches through their national organizations not to purchase tickets to Malaysia.

2) Preparing a lawsuit against the government of Malaysia.

3) Looking for alternate venues that can host the event on short notice, perhaps Australia or Japan.

4) Looking for donors that can help make up the expenses that this will involve. This may be the only thing they can get George Soros and Sheldon Adelson to agree to give to.

5) Preparing a public announcement that if Malaysia does not respect the rules of the sport, they are not suitable hosts for any sporting event. (This isn't the first time Malaysia has done this.)

6) Gathering support from other sports federations to publicly say, jointly, that politics has no place in sports and no one else will hold events in Malaysia until it changes its policies.

This is bigger than this event. The International Federation for Paralympic Swimming can be the heroes that ensure that such discrimination never happens again - or they can choose to throw the Israeli athletes under the bus.

The choice is theirs.

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Malaysian PM says he'd rather lose the Paralympic Swimming event than be forced to host Israelis. Your move, @Para_Swimming. (UPDATE) ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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This thread was created in 2013. It didn't work then. It's not going to work now. How about we move on?

 

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This thread was created in 2013. It didn't work then. It's not going to work now. How about we move on?

A "one cent " opinion

 

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Getting people to understand that Israel is struggling to achieve competing values — peace with the Palestinians (who have turned down numerous peace offers), while protecting its citizens from terrorism and murder — is impossible.

But when it comes to managing the UCC’s money, the binary thinking used to assess Israeli behavior is thrown out the window. When UCC money is at stake, notions of moral purity, which are invoked in such an ugly manner against Jews and their homeland, are dismissed as unworkable.

“Purity is not the goal,” United Church Funds tells us. UCC’s money managers struggle to pursue competing values and hope for the best. But no such graciousness is shown to the Israelis if they try to do the same thing when Jewish lives are at stake.

The reason is simple: The Jewish state is the emotional and spiritual scapegoat for the UCC (and other mainline churches).

It’s not about human rights. It’s not about peace. It’s not about justice. It’s about the Jews.

And just in case there’s any doubt about that last point, the denomination’s investment funds hold a number of stocks in companies such as Apple and Alphabet (which owns Google) that do business with China, which is currently running concentration camps for Muslims, demolishing Christian churches, and using the internet to spy on its citizens by linking search queries to people’s individual phone numbers.

You won’t find much outcry from the UCC about these violations of human rights.

Like I said — it’s about the Jews.

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Surprise! Another Church Group Fund Has Proscribed Pro-Israel Stocks

 

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Contrary to the challengers' free speech narrative, these state laws do not actually impact anyone's ability to hold, express or advocate any viewpoint. Instead, they only require businesses seeking government contracts (or investments) to certify they are not engaged in discriminatory boycotts. This is actually milder than many other anti-discrimination laws at the federal, state and local level, which require companies – regardless of their financial relationship with any government – to disregard traits such as religion or national origin in hiring practices and business dealings. The laws in question here, instead of directly regulating conduct, are intended to spare the public from subsidizing companies that act contrary to the collective interest.

The key question that free speech advocates (and the courts) have to answer is whether a boycott of Israel, in its current form, is merely a political viewpoint rather than a form of discrimination. For if such a boycott does nothing but express a political viewpoint, these laws should be struck down. The collective interest is never served by stifling one side of a genuine debate. However, if a boycott represents discrimination against a protected category, it would be on par with any other uncontroversial law safeguarding public funds from being used toward discriminatory ends.

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http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israel-boycott-ban-is-not-about-free-speech/

 

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Contrary to the challengers' free speech narrative, these state laws do not actually impact anyone's ability to hold, express or advocate any viewpoint. Instead, they only require businesses seeking government contracts (or investments) to certify they are not engaged in discriminatory boycotts. This is actually milder than many other anti-discrimination laws at the federal, state and local level, which require companies – regardless of their financial relationship with any government – to disregard traits such as religion or national origin in hiring practices and business dealings. The laws in question here, instead of directly regulating conduct, are intended to spare the public from subsidizing companies that act contrary to the collective interest.

The key question that free speech advocates (and the courts) have to answer is whether a boycott of Israel, in its current form, is merely a political viewpoint rather than a form of discrimination. For if such a boycott does nothing but express a political viewpoint, these laws should be struck down. The collective interest is never served by stifling one side of a genuine debate. However, if a boycott represents discrimination against a protected category, it would be on par with any other uncontroversial law safeguarding public funds from being used toward discriminatory ends.

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http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israel-boycott-ban-is-not-about-free-speech/

However, if a boycott represents discrimination against a protected category,

There is no discrimination. BDS is to change activity. Religion is irrelevant.

 

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Transsexual anti-Zionists have a serious problem: Their hormones are made in Israel. What to do? ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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Code Pink hypocrites are on lovefest tour of Iran ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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John Cleese plans Tel Aviv stop during world tour

 

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UPDATE:
A senior source told TPS that EAPPI activists have likewise been involved in the direct support of terrorism.

EAPPI activists have visited the family of Palestinian terrorist Omar al-Abed, who murdered the 70-year-old Yosef Salomon, his daughter Haya, and his son Elad at their home in Neve Tsuf in July 2017.

The visit took place just a few days after the attack, and the activists gave the terrorist’s family money as well.

DMU, an organization that monitors the WCC’s actions in Israel, told TPS that EAPPI activist were also been documented visiting terrorists’ homes in Hebron as well, where they lent support to the Palestinians’ actions against the “occupation.”

The senior source said that the EAPPI activists enter Israel on tourist’s vises and present themselves as pilgrims, but actually engage in political activity, which is illegal.

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Report: World Council of Churches’ Flagship Project Trained 1,800 Anti-Israel Activists

 

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For first time since 2011: Israeli minister in Egypt

 

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German city removes antisemitic BDS event notice from its website

 

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German city removes antisemitic BDS event notice from its website

the anti Semite card is no longer the ace of trump.

 

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Israel-Japan partners eye robot testers, autonomous forklifts on factory floor

 

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German city removes antisemitic BDS event notice from its website

the anti Semite card is no longer the ace of trump.

All you do is obfuscate issues.

 

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Israel to Export Natural Gas to Egypt, Energy Minister Holds Talks in Egypt

 

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In Malaysia, Israeli Paraplegics Not Welcome - But Hamas Terrorists Holds Their Own "Event" There ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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So who do we believe? Perhaps the best response, Mr. Prove, is: Prove it! If the WCC is not anti-Israel, then why is it funding what seems like a nefarious program in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the Jewish state?

Its aim is to harm Israel’s good name, and someone needed to blow the whistle. WCC needs to put its house in order.

While criticism of Israel’s policies by religious institutions is legitimate under the principle of free speech, the WCC would do well to rein in those of its followers who have crossed the line and become overtly antisemitic.

Israel has its faults, but it is nowhere near apartheid South Africa or Nazi Germany. Israel’s robust democracy and strong support of religious freedom are sacred principles in our collective consciousness, while its enemies’ contempt for these principles and Zionism is profane in the extreme.

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Churches’ sin