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[Sixties Fan]

On Wednesday, Palestinian customs police - operating at a Palestinian checkpoint that no one ever hears about - seized a truck with 10 tons of watermelons smuggled from Israel.

The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture released this photo of the seizure.


Keep in mind that the 1930s campaign was to encourage buying produce from Jewish farms, but not to boycott Arab produce. The Palestinian Authority bans produce from Jews - because it knows that it cannot rely on patriotism to encourage Palestinians to only buy from Arab farmers.

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Hebrew watermelons, then and now

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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[Sixties Fan]

For the past two weeks, anti-Israel protesters have been trying to stop Israeli shipping company Zim from unloading cargo in North America.

In Seattle, the protests have been organized by Falastiniyat, which describes itself as "a grassroots collective of diasporic Palestinian feminists in Seattle living & organizing at the intersection of gender justice and anti-colonialism."

A quick glance through their Instagram page shows that these so-called feminists have not once protested against Palestinian laws that are specifically against women. This shows that these "progressive" groups are hypocrites, with no interest in actually helping Palestinian women and whose obsession with Israel - the most liberal state in the region - is thinly veiled Jew-hatred.

Aisha Mansour from Falastiniyat, said, "we’re just trying to tell our ports, stop taking anything from Israel.”

But the Zim ship wasn't unloading anything from Israel. In fact, the shipment that these bigots have been so keen to block includes medical and personal protective equipment that it picked up from South Korea and Chinalast month.

And while Zim was founded and has headquarters in Israel, it is a public company.

Beyond that, the Zim San Diego ship that is docked at Seattle is sailing under the Liberian flag. None of the workers on the ship are Israeli. The recipients of the cargo aren't Israeli.

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Police break up antisemitic Seattle "#BlockTheBoat" protest

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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[Sixties Fan]

[ Hamas is being boycotted ]


From DW:

All parties in Germany's grand coalition government have agreed to ban the flag of Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper said in a report published Sunday.

The move comes after several antisemitic incidents occurred last month in Germany during anti-Israel rallies.

"We do not want the flags of terrorist organizations to be waved on German soil," said Thorsten Frei, the deputy parliamentary spokesperson for [Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.] and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union.

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German government bans Hamas flag because of antisemitic incidents

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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Activists around the world stood with us, as Palestinians are facing yet another massacre in besieged Gaza, resisting ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, and rising against Israeli settler-colonial and apartheid attacks in our cities in historic Palestine.

 

[Hollie]

Activists around the world stood with us, as Palestinians are facing yet another massacre in besieged Gaza, resisting ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, and rising against Israeli settler-colonial and apartheid attacks in our cities in historic Palestine.

A massacre?

Indeed.

Huh. I missed reading news of that.

Link to a youtube video?

Indeed, without a youtube video it didn't happen.

 

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Activists around the world stood with us, as Palestinians are facing yet another massacre in besieged Gaza, resisting ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, and rising against Israeli settler-colonial and apartheid attacks in our cities in historic Palestine.

A massacre?

Indeed.

Huh. I missed reading news of that.

Link to a youtube video?

Indeed, without a youtube video it didn't happen.

Huh. I missed reading news of that.

No surprise.

 

[Hollie]

Activists around the world stood with us, as Palestinians are facing yet another massacre in besieged Gaza, resisting ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, and rising against Israeli settler-colonial and apartheid attacks in our cities in historic Palestine.

A massacre?

Indeed.

Huh. I missed reading news of that.

Link to a youtube video?

Indeed, without a youtube video it didn't happen.

Huh. I missed reading news of that.

No surprise.

Yes. It was a surprise. Mostly because there was no ''massacre''.

Any ''massacre'' would have accompanied a slew of youtube videos you would dump among various threads.

Indeed, you offered nothing.

Thanks for offering nothing.

You get thanked a lot for that, right?

 

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Activists around the world stood with us, as Palestinians are facing yet another massacre in besieged Gaza, resisting ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, and rising against Israeli settler-colonial and apartheid attacks in our cities in historic Palestine.

A massacre?

Indeed.

Huh. I missed reading news of that.

Link to a youtube video?

Indeed, without a youtube video it didn't happen.

Huh. I missed reading news of that.

No surprise.

Yes. It was a surprise. Mostly because there was no ''massacre''.

Any ''massacre'' would have accompanied a slew of youtube videos you would dump among various threads.

Indeed, you offered nothing.

Thanks for offering nothing.

You get thanked a lot for that, right?

 

[Hollie]

Israel launches airstrikes at Gaza for first time since ceasefire after 'Hamas fire arson balloons​

 

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Why Justice Matters: Kairos BDS Toolkit​

 

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[Mindful]

(JTA) — Here’s the advice from a top publishing executive in Germany to employees who complained about his decision to fly the Israeli flag on the business’ headquarters: Find another place to work.
“I think, and I’m being very frank with you, a person who has an issue with an Israeli flag being raised for one week here, after antisemitic demonstrations, should look for a new job,” Mathias Doepfner, the chairman of Axel Springer, said in a conference call last week with thousands of his employees around the world, Israel Hayom reported Monday.

Doepfner has described himself as a non-Jewish Zionist.
The flag was raised last month as Hamas and Israel exchanged fire for 11 days, resulting in more than 250 fatalities, mostly on the Palestinian side. Many protests against Israel in Europe and beyond featured incitement against Jews and Israel, and several acts of violence in Europe and the United States were documented in connection with the protests.

Axel Springer owns several Israel sites, including Yad2 on real estate sales.

On its website, the publisher lists five “Principles and Values.” The second states: “We support the Jewish people and the right of existence of the State of Israel.”

The first is: “Standing up for freedom, the rule of law, democracy, and a united Europe,” followed by “support for the transatlantic alliance between the United States of America and Europe; commitment to a free and social market economy, and the rejection of political and religious extremism and any kind of racism and sexual discrimination.”

Quick Reads Archive - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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[Sixties Fan]

German CEO to 16,000 Employees: Accept Israeli Flag Flying or Find New Job | United with Israel

'A person who has an issue with an Israeli flag being raised for one week here, after anti-Semitic demonstrations, should look for a new job,' said the CEO of Axel Springer.

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‘This Is the Opposite of Academic Freedom,’ Say Dozens of CUNY Faculty in Letter Blasting Union Resolution on Israel - Algemeiner.com

At least 39 Jewish studies faculty at the City University of New York (CUNY) condemned a controversial faculty union resolution that charged Israel with "apartheid" and advanced the prospect of a boycott of Israeli institutions, according to a letter seen by The Algemeiner. The faculty letter...

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[Sixties Fan]

Others, including the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, also responded with impressive advocacy on this issue.

Scientific American replaced the biased anti-Israel column with an editor’s note that reads, “This article fell outside the scope of Scientific American and has been removed” (A full textof the now removed column may be viewed here).

It is not surprising that the pages of Scientific American were used to demonize and vilify Israel.

Scientific American’s Editor-in-Chief, Laura Helmuth, tweeted in 2015, “Not looking forward to this: Congress invites [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu to another lovefest. Bibi, shut up.” That same year, Helmuth tweeted her opinion that it was “awful” that Netanyahu won reelection.

Scientific American Senior Editor Sunya Arshad Bhutta tweeted on May 28, 2021, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — which is widely viewed as a call for the erasure of Israel. In June of 2021, Bhutta tweeted, “the united states has caused significantly more terror worldwide than the taliban and hamas combined…it’s a fact.”

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A Victory Against Anti-Israel Doctors and Bias in the Media - Algemeiner.com

On June 2, the venerable publication Scientific American published an anti-Israel propaganda opinion piece on its website titled, “As Health Care Workers, We Stand in Solidarity with Palestine.” The article, now removed, was authored by a group of physicians and medical students. Voice4Israel of...

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The combined ports of Seattle and Tacoma support more than 20,000 jobs and $1.9 billion in labor income, according to a 2019 report by the Northwest Seaport Alliance, and the region’s marine cargo industry produced an average annual wage of $95,000 and directly supported $5.9 billion in business output.

Although the ZIM San Diego was ultimately unloaded, activists see the delay and the response by supportive officials as enough to claim victory, said Alia Taqieddin, a representative of local Palestinian feminist collective Falastiniyat, which helped organized the protest.



True, the incident posed a challenge, but ultimately local officials across jurisdictions stood behind the region and not international politics. Seattle must ensure that the message that we are open for business remains the loudest.

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‘Block the Boat’ would hurt Seattle, not Israel

Israel’s policy toward Palestinians demands stronger international scrutiny, but blocking Israeli ships from the Port of Seattle damages our region’s maritime economy.

www.seattletimes.com