Tag: Boycott

So, Israel has lost another friend in Congress.

Peter Beinart is notorious for leading and co-signing a public call in 2016 for a “targeted boycott of all goods and services from all Israeli settlements.”

On the eve of Tisha B'Av this is actually good news, as it fits the verse (Isaiah 49:17): "Swiftly your children are coming; Those who ravaged and ruined you shall leave you."

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has perpetuated anti-Semitic tropes and introduced a resolution in Congress that promotes boycotts of Israel.

"Our website will be an important resource for students, as well as for the broader public who value both Israel and the truth."

“We hope this campaign finally shows Facebook how much their users and their advertisers want them to make serious changes for the better,” said ADL national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.

For now, all permits held by PA residents are considered valid by Israel, including the BMC certificates that give businessmen the right of entry into Israel.

The IDF's information pages in Arabic are extremely popular among Palestinian Authority residents.

Turns out there's an Arabic equivalent to the infamous "Shvartze" slur – it's "Abeed" and it means slaves. As in the slaves Arab merchants sold in the New World for several centuries.

Back in 2016, the SodaStream plant a couple of miles on the wrong side of the green line was forced to lay off its remaining 74 Arab workers and close down.

The Palestinian Authority has been threatening and even arresting PA Arabs to discourage them from working for Israelis in the Jordan Valley.

It will now likely be heard again by the student government, where this time it will need a two-thirds majority to override the president’s veto.

Another US university where Jewish students should not go.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated after the report’s publication that “whoever boycotts us will be boycotted. "

In 2018, the Simon Wiesenthal Center counted Waters among the ten worst anti-Semitic phenomena of the year – a year which witnessed the Tree Of Life Synagogue massacre.

This was not the first time the Arabic newspaper published ads that “serve the Israeli settlement and occupation policies.”

The act protects American companies from being coerced to provide information to international organizations for the purpose of furthering boycotts against Israel.

Shabina Lafleur-Gangji, editor of the Journal of the American Herbalists Guild, takes credit for convincing conference supporters and scheduled lecturers to boycott the conference in Israel.

Academic BDS-supporting instructors had an average of 78% of their course readings authored by BDS supporters.

Soros is a product of his assimilated background, which he himself described in a 2016 interview as a "Jewish anti-Semitic home."

NGO Monitor dismissed the report as ”simply bizarre" and pointed out how it whitewashes terror.

"Applying rules to Israel that it does not apply anywhere else in the world is against the laws of the World Trade Organization.”

Trump sharply criticized his predecessor, saying under the Obama administration relations with Israel were “undermined and neglected.”

It's what democracies do to protect themselves against their enemies.

The boycott is being promoted by Yasser Abbas, son of PA head Mahmoud Abbas, and by Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior Fatah official, who have shown interest in importing calves from Portugal and Hungary, a shift that would give them control of the market.

The report recommends that all UN member states adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of anti-Semitism. So far, 18 of them have done so.

Faculty took a much more active and prominent role in academic BDS promotion and implementation, and in the promulgation of anti-Semitic expression used to justify academic BDS.

“Some people have one move only: boycott. Cancel. Make-go-away. But here’s the thing, the house voted 318 to 17 to condemn the #BDS movement,” tweeted cable talk-show host and comedian Bill Maher.

Emma asks sheepishly: "Can you donate $5 to make sure we can make the Occupation a central issue in the next debates?"

Due to the sensitivity of the issue, the ultimate decision will still be left to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who must determine whether the political gain will outweigh any political fallout created by allowing the two lawmakers into the country.