Boycott Israel

[Sixties Fan]

This is because the European Court of Justice has direct links to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. This is more than a "classification" – all boycotts begin by singling out those designated to be ostracized. Proof of this can be found in the series of measures that have been implemented by EU-funded organizations, which have always argued that marking goods is merely the start of an evolving boycott campaign – with clear and intended ramifications for the Israeli economy inside the Green Line.

A study conducted by Israeli group NGO monitor points to a broad coalition of rights groups working to carry out an ideology of boycotting through product labeling. As early as 2012, for example, the Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation asked for EU funding to "precisely mark settlement products as a first step," and suggested intensifying the sanctions until "the complete prohibition of settlement imports… and the prohibition of money transfers to settlements and related activities." The code-speak "related activities," incidentally, also includes Israeli and international business initiatives that have nothing to do with the settlements.


This strategy is aptly expressed by the "Platform of French NGOs for Palestine" – an umbrella organization of 40 NGOs in France. Immediately following the French government's decision to adopt the European Commission's recommendation in 2015 to label settlement products, the "Platform" rushed to demand credit for the measure. In other words, the organization appropriated the European Court of Justice's ruling and is one of the leading BDS organizations in France.

Although the Platform claims its campaigns "aren't part of the boycott movement," its president, Claude Léostic, said in an interview that "we certainly support it." In a report that Léostic and other boycott groups published in June 2018, they call on French companies such as Egis, Systra and Alstom to "terminate their contracts with the Israeli authorities” and urge the French government to "take all the measures needed" to prevent French public operators SNCF, RATP and CDC from fulfilling their contracts with the Jerusalem tramway.


(full article online)

https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/paving-the-way-to-total-boycott/

 

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[P F Tinmore]

Maybe the people in some of those other countries can call for a boycott like the Palestinians did.

 

[Mindful]

Maybe the people in some of those other countries can call for a boycott like the Palestinians did.

Go for it.

I said 'territories', btw. Not 'countries'.

 

[P F Tinmore]

 

[P F Tinmore]

Maybe the people in some of those other countries can call for a boycott like the Palestinians did.

Go for it.

I said 'territories', btw. Not 'countries'.

How can a "territory" defined by international borders and citizens not be a country?

 

[rylah]

Even Jews hate Israel!

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1,000,000 really??
More like 12k, as it says several posts below on the same page.

They demonstrated against the conditions of enlistment for the Haredi community.
A speaker expressed their position for 3 minutes, some held signs, then he said "good night folks, go home", they turned on music and people went home.

Hate?
This shows your own motivation rather theirs.

 

[Mindful]

Maybe the people in some of those other countries can call for a boycott like the Palestinians did.

Go for it.

I said 'territories', btw. Not 'countries'.

How can a "territory" defined by international borders and citizens not be a country?

By borders you mean armistice lines?

Have you always tried to reinvent language?

 

[P F Tinmore]

Maybe the people in some of those other countries can call for a boycott like the Palestinians did.

Go for it.

I said 'territories', btw. Not 'countries'.

How can a "territory" defined by international borders and citizens not be a country?

By borders you mean armistice lines?

Have you always tried to reinvent language?

Armistice lines were never borders.

 

[Mindful]

Maybe the people in some of those other countries can call for a boycott like the Palestinians did.

Go for it.

I said 'territories', btw. Not 'countries'.

How can a "territory" defined by international borders and citizens not be a country?

By borders you mean armistice lines?

Have you always tried to reinvent language?

Armistice lines were never borders.

I do believe you are getting it!

 

[RoccoR]

RE: Boycott Israel
⁜→ et al,

We must remember that the European Union is an organization, set in place by the captains of industry, that has the sole purpose of remolding internal and external political factors that influence the business environment to be more conducive to commercial, economic, and political activities that favorably support → the European markets, the products distribution systems and energy trends. All this for the end-goal of accumulating wealth for owns and investors (maximizing the wealth of the shareholders).

This is because the European Court of Justice has direct links to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. "

(OBSERVATION)

• French Claude Leostic is a French National and Head of International Solidarity Campaign. That is a screen for running interference over the assets within the commercial processes. There are many such promotion systems.

• When the game is about maximization of wealth, political fairness and equity are literally thrown into the wind. The principle policies of the EU offsets (not balances) the aims of justice in favor of economic efficiency in the accumulation of wealth.
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Don't expect the EU to dispense political justice in favor of Israel (Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) IF such justice in any way → might turn detrimental to any processes in play. → The potential for growth with an expectation of contributing to the accumulation of wealth comes before justice.


Most Respectfully,
R

 

[Mindful]

RE: Boycott Israel
⁜→ et al,

We must remember that the European Union is an organization, set in place by the captains of industry, that has the sole purpose of remolding internal and external political factors that influence the business environment to be more conducive to commercial, economic, and political activities that favorably support → the European markets, the products distribution systems and energy trends. All this for the end-goal of accumulating wealth for owns and investors (maximizing the wealth of the shareholders).

This is because the European Court of Justice has direct links to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. "

(OBSERVATION)

• French Claude Leostic is a French National and Head of International Solidarity Campaign. That is a screen for running interference over the assets within the commercial processes. There are many such promotion systems.

• When the game is about maximization of wealth, political fairness and equity are literally thrown into the wind. The principle policies of the EU offsets (not balances) the aims of justice in favor of economic efficiency in the accumulation of wealth.
​

Don't expect the EU to dispense political justice in favor of Israel (Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) IF such justice in any way → might turn detrimental to any processes in play. → The potential for growth with an expectation of contributing to the accumulation of wealth comes before justice.


Most Respectfully,
R

It's only supposed to be a trading block.

 

[Sixties Fan]

[ I do not know why the second half of the article is coming out in capital letters]


Dozens of University of Toronto faculty members urged President Meric Gertler on Tuesday to root out antisemitism on their campus, which they warned had worsened after a student union formally backed the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign.

The faculty call came after the university’s Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) said its Executive Committee may be reluctant to support a motion to bring kosher food to campus because the initiative was being spearheaded by a “pro-Israel” group — namely Hillel, the largest Jewish club on campus.

SINCE SAID IT WAS “DEEPLY SORRY FOR THE HARM” CAUSED BY ITS RESPONSE, WHICH HAS BEEN WIDELY DECRIED AS ANTISEMITIC.

PROFESSOR OF DENTISTRY HOWARD TENENBAUM AND 20 OTHER FACULTY CO-SIGNERS DISMISSED THIS APOLOGY AS “TEPID AT BEST” IN THEIR LETTER, WHICH WAS ENDORSED BY 30 ADDITIONAL FACULTY MEMBERS SINCE ITS SUBMISSION TO GERTLER ON TUESDAY MORNING, ACCORDING TO B’NAI BRITH CANADA. THE JEWISH CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP WAS INVOLVED IN ORGANIZING THE LETTER.

“SINCE 2012, WHEN THE UTGSU ENDORSED THE ANTISEMITIC BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT AND SANCTIONS (BDS) MOVEMENT AND COMMITTED STUDENT FUNDS TO THIS DISCRIMINATORY CAMPAIGN THROUGH THE FORMATION OF ITS BDS COMMITTEE — DEDICATED SOLELY TO THE DELEGITIMIZATION OF THE WORLD’S ONLY JEWISH STATE — THE SITUATION ON CAMPUS FOR JEWISH STUDENTS HAS CONTINUOUSLY WORSENED, CULMINATING INTO THIS MOST RECENT EPISODE,” THE FACULTY WARNED.


(full article online)

Dozens of University of Toronto Faculty Call Out ‘Antisemitic BDS Movement,’ Urge Adoption of IHRA Definition

 

[Sixties Fan]

[ Let us understand this: ONLY Jewish and Israeli people are protested against at all of these Universities and other venues. ONLY Jews. ]

Several Canadian politicians and Jewish community representatives have denounced protests targeting former Israeli soldiers who spoke at York University in Toronto on Wednesday, following an evening filled with heated language, intimidation, and several physical altercations.

The anti-Zionist group Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) led the protest after campaigning for days against the event, which was organized by Reservists on Duty (RoD) and Herut Canada. Witnesses repeatedly described the demonstrations as charged, as several hundred protesters with loudspeakers and Palestinians flags faced off with some 100 event attendees and supporters holding Israeli flags.

(full article online)

Canadian Politicians, Jewish Groups Slam Protest of IDF Reservists at York University

 

[Sixties Fan]

Key figures taking part included Egyptian MP Mohammed Anwar Sadat, nephew of the late president, and leader of his country’s Reform and Development Party; the former Kuwaiti Minister of Information, Sami Abdul-Latif Al-Nisf, who spoke passionately of the “mistakes” made in the Arab-Israel conflict, declaring also that “it is a mistake to insist on Israel’s being a racist apartheid state when it clearly is not”; and two important religious figures, Hassen Chalghoumi, a Paris-based Tunisian cleric, and Lebanese imam Saleh Hamed, each of whom had faced serious personal security issues in order to attend.

The participants came from all over the Arab world, and were young and old, men and women, diplomats, media and arts personalities, often at odds with the leadership of their states but taking a nuanced and independent route to talking about the resolution of the Arab-Israel conflict.

Some of the delegates, such as Mohammed Dajani, a Palestinian academic who shocked the Arab world by taking a group of his students to Auschwitz, were already well known to Israeli activists. But many of the opinions were highly significant, not just because they are music to Jewish and Israeli ears, but because this is the first time that such declarations have been made in public and on the record.

(full article online)

A Groundbreaking Arab Initiative to Repudiate BDS

 

[Sixties Fan]

Scotland to host Israel in Euro 2020 soccer play-off

 

[Sixties Fan]

As Israel gets closer to not just energy independence but to becoming an actual energy exporter, I’m reminded of a move the BDSers took once Israel entered the energy game to try to generate interest in a new phrase: “Apartheid Oil.”

Might this refer to the Apartheid policies towards women, gays and religious minorities in the Arab petro-states? Or the cover those wealthy oil states provided countries like Sudan as they murdered millions of black Africans? Or the robust oil-for-gold trade between the real Apartheid South Africa and the Gulf states?

Heavens no! For the champions of human rights and justice have suddenly got religion on oil politics once Israel was on the verge of having some.

Discoveries of shale and natural gas in Israel (coupled with recently developed extraction techniques) are what has led the nation to reach beyond energy independence over the last few years. And while such finds present environmental concerns (not to mention the risk of the oil curse), these are not the issues critics of “Apartheid Oil” are really troubled about (although they occasionally hide behind them).

No, their problem is not that oil and gas is being extracted from the earth (with all the upside and downside that brings) but who gets to benefit from it. When it was simply Qatar or Iran using oil money to fund police forces dedicated to beating women for exposing their foreheads or exporting Islamist ideology around the world (or Saudi Arabia, before they become a less dependable BDS ally), they could live with that. But now that it is Israel that may finally get a piece of the action, suddenly the link between oil wealth and human rights rockets up their priority list.

(full article online)

Apartheid oil (Divest This!) ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[Sixties Fan]

WATCH: World-Class Photographers Compete in Israeli Photo Contest

 

[Sixties Fan]

Africa’s Top University Decisively Rejects Call to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions

 

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Cohen, Facebook and Antisemitism
Nov 25, 2019 | by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

We need to fundamentally reevaluate how “the greatest propaganda machine in history” spreads hate, conspiracies and lies.

Sacha Baron Cohen achieved international renown as a comedian. What he had to say however last Thursday night, speaking at the Anti-Defamation League’s International Leadership Summit on hate and anti-Semitism, was deadly serious.

Hopefully his spot-on analysis of a major contemporary contribution to the spread of worldwide hatred and divisiveness will get the hearing it rightfully deserves – and perhaps might even be the spark to action that will bring about change to the horror of the present unregulated chaos of our social media.

Criticizing what he called “the greatest propaganda machine in history” he blamed the tech companies – YouTube, Twitter, Google and especially Facebook – for “stoking the fires of bigotry and enabling the spread of dangerous conspiracies, often fueled by algorithms designed to keep consumers hooked.”

Sacha Baron Cohen, Facebook and Antisemitism