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Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement

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The movement to call Israel to account for its crimes against the Palestinian people is growing, it is "invading the mainstream discourse, becoming part of the constant and unrelenting drumbeat against Israel." It could eventually threaten the existence of the Jewish state by undermining the support it receives from its strongest backer, the U. S. government.
That was the message of alarm delivered by the Executive Director of the American Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Howard Kohr, to the AIPAC Policy Conference on May 3.[i]

AIPAC is one of the principal organizations that lobby publicly on behalf of Israel in the United States, where it is an important influence on foreign policy. Among the 6,000 dignitaries who attended its policy conference were more than half of the members of the Senate and a third of the members of the House of Representatives. Featured speakers included Vice President Joe Biden, Senator John Kerry, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israeli President Shimon Peres.

AIPAC and its allies are often alleged to act as a kind of shadow government in Washington, distorting policy in Israel's interest rather than that of the U.S. This stands reality on its head. The pro-Israel lobby carries real weight in the halls of power, but only because the U.S. and Israel share the same fundamental interests. The U.S. relies on Israel to keep the Arab states of the Middle East divided, weak, and under constant threat of attack, thus ensuring that they remain subservient to Washington. For its part, Israel could not continue to exist in its present form without the strong political and material support it receives from the U.S. It received more than $2.5 billion in military aid from the U.S. in 2009.[ii] Israel and the United States may be partners with shared objectives, but the relationship is a highly unequal one.
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Like I've mentioned before, this movement has so much momentum that many BDS meeting are happening across the globe. There's even an Israel Apartheid Week conducted in cities across the globe. The more the left defends Israel, the more energy is given to this movement. When the left defends Israel, they show their arrogance and inhumanity towards a defensless and innocent people of Palestine. It's all about money, natural resources and land people. Thats what the Israeli government is after, no matter how many innocent lives it takes with it.

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37 comments // Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement

  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • Yo, Trut1 Did the Jews do this?

      2009.09.23 (Herat, Afghanistan) - A teenage boy is gunned down in his home by Islamic militants, who also injure his sister and mother.

      2009.09.23 (Mosul, Iraq) - Four Iraqis are killed in two Jihad bombing attacks.

      2009.09.23 (Kandahar, Afghanistan) - Three children and two women are among seven innocents wiped out by a Taliban roadside bomb.

      2009.09.23 (Pattani, Thailand) - Two
      Buddhists, one a 19-year-old woman, are brutally murdered by Muslim gunmen.

      2009.09.23 (Yala, Thailand) - A 16-year-old boy is shot to death by Muslim radicals in a drive-by attack.

      2009.09.24 (Bannu, Pakistan) - Islamic radicals open fire on two cars carrying tribal elders. Nine victims are murdered.

      2009.09.24 (Mogadishu, Somalia) - Five civilians die in an ambush claimed by Hizbul Islam.

      2009.09.24 (Helmand, Afghanistan) - Taliban hardliners murder four police with a roadside bomb.

      2009.09.25 (Herat, Afghanistan) - Three brave Taliban shoot three civilians and hang another.

      2009.09.24 (Mosul, Iraq) - Sunni gunmen take down two local cops at a checkpoint.

      2009.09.26 (Peshawar, Pakistan) - Ten people outside a bank are murdered by a Jihadi car bomb.

      2009.09.26 (Bannu, Pakistan) - A Jihadi truck bomber detonates outside a police station, killing six people on the street.

      Yo, Trut1, did the Christians do this?

    • 2 years ago
  • mrEddie
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    • Jews do not post anywhere to boycott any Arab product.
      even when we all know how they occupied all of north-Africa, Turkey, India and still fighting in Darfur , Tailand
      and other poor countries.

      do you know who is building houses for the Jews? the Arabs who live in the Israel and have no other way of getting bread on the table, Jordan and Egypt wouldn't care to give them social welfare.those Arabs are happy to have a job and will not boycott any Israeli products.

    • 2 years ago
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • Thank you bielski for your homework well done by finding out the names of companies I will try to buy from!
      I also hope to make up a nice poster type email and send it out to a lot of people on my lists.
      Thank you!

    • 2 years ago
  • mrEddie
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • Did any of us ever notice discrimination against BLACKS in the Arab/Moslem community?
      Want specific examples?
      Take a look at the evil face up above this comment page. You will find that they decided to paint the face of evil, BLACK.
      Here is what Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas said on Friday, ""To Israeli soldiers I say: A black fate awaits you ..." In other words, he psychologically admitted that he thinks BLACK is bad.
      Take a look at the BLACK slaves in Saudi Arabia today, who belong to the white Saudis who are free. Yet, Mr. Obama bowed to their white King Abdullah and kissed him.
      Africans continue to allow the ARAB EXTERMINATION OF BLACKS in Sudan and Mauritania, Arab racism and apartheid/racism in Zanzibar and parts of East Africa, and Arab mischief in some of the wars in West Africa. The time has long past for Black Africans to realize two things.
      (1) Arabs are Caucasians whose racism and religious imperialism is responsible for the destruction of African civilizations.
      (2) The Arabs and other Semites will never respect Black Africans and will continue to use their henchmen in Sudan and elsewhere to continue the extermination of Black Africans so they can depopulate the continent of Blacks and occupy it, as they have done in Northern Africa for centuries. From "Raceandhistory.com"
      Mohamed owned and sold BLACK slaves. The Koran openly admits that.
      Now this from Amnesty International..."The blood of the BLACKS runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land. The power of Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir belongs to the Arabs and we will kill you until the end, you blacks, we have killed your God."
      Arab women also racially insulted women from the village: "You are gorillas, you are black, and you are badly dressed."
      The Janjaweed Muslims have abducted women for use as sex slaves, in some cases breaking their limbs to prevent them escaping, as well as carrying out rapes in their home villages, the report said. The militiamen "are happy when they rape. They sing when they rape and they tell the BLACK prisoners that they are just slaves and that they can do with them what they wish."
      Then, these same radicals employ the usual trick of accusing the Jews of Apartheid while these very fundamentalists invented Apartheid, even before the South African Dutch.
      Need more proof of Muslim racism against BLACKS??
      There are so many sites to visit, you will not have time to visit 1/100th of them.
      Of course they do all of this hating and murdering while screaming that Zionists are practicing Apartheid.

    • 2 years ago
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • Birdmanbob4 is right!
      If someone could do some homework, I would appreciate a list of those companies so we can begin the revenge.
      Then, we send that list around to every person we know asking them to do the same. We have to start this thing going. This is actually a battle of good vs. evil.
      This reminds me of the old Russia. They get what they want through intimidation and threats and business.

    • 2 years ago
  • Birdmanbob4
  • Birdmanbob4
  • bielski
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      bielski [removed]  
    • Birdmanbob4:

      Elbit Systems Ltd

      And support any of these, who all have associations with Israel.

      AOL Time Warner Time Life
      magazine, CNN, ICQ
      Apax
      Partners Jonny Rockets, Sunglass Hut.
      Arsenal Football Club
      Coca-Cola Fruitopia, Fanta, Kia Orange, Lilt, Sprite, Sunkist..
      Caterpillar
      Danone HP foods, Evian,
      Volvic, Jacob
      Delta
      Galil Hema, Barbie, Carrefour, Auchan, Tchibo, Victoria's Secret, GAP,
      Banana Republic, Structure, J-Crew, JC Penny, Pryca, Lindex, DIM, DKNY, Ralph
      Lauren, Playtex, cK, Hugo Boss, M&S
      Disney
      Emblaze
      Estée Lauder Aramis,
      Clinique, DKNY, Prescriptives, Origins, MAC, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Tommy
      Hilfiger, Jane, Donna Karan, Aveda, Stila, Jo Malone, Bumble & Bumble, Kate
      Spade
      Home Depot Villager's Hardware, Georgia Lighting, Apex Supply, EXPO Design
      Centres
      IBM
      Intel
      Johnson &
      Johnson
      Kimberly-Clark Kleenex, Kotex, Huggies, Andrex
      Lewis Trust Group
      River Island, Isrotel hotels, Britannia Pacific
      The Limited Inc Express
      stores, Lerner New York, Structure, New York & Company, Mast Industries,
      Intimate Brands, Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works, White Barn Candle
      Company, Henri Bendel
      L'Oreal Giorgio Armani,
      Redken 5th Avenue, Lancome Paris, Vichy, Cacharel, La Roche-Posay, Garnier,
      Biotherm, Helena Rubinstein, Maybelline, Ralph Lauren, Carson
      Marks & Spencer M&S, St.Michaels
      McDonald's
      Motorola
      Nestle Nescafé, Perrier,
      Vittel, Pure Life, Carnation, Libby's, Milkmaid, Nesquik, Maggi, Buitoni, Cross
      & Blackwell, KitKat, Milkybar, Quality Street, Smarties, After Eight, Aero,
      Polo, Lion, Felix cat food, L'Oréal
      News Corporation TV: Fox, Sky, Star, Phoenix, Granada, CNBC. UK newspapers: Standard
      Newspaper, News of the World, The Sun, The Times. Australian Newspapers: The
      Telegraph , Gold Coast Bulletin, Herald Sun, Independent, Sunday Mail. US
      newspapers: New York Post. Publishers: Harper Collins Ragan, Zondervan, National
      Geographical. Nursery World, Rawkus, NDS, Mushroom Records, ChinaByte.com,
      Festival Records
      Nokia
      Revlon New
      World Entertainment, Forbes
      Sara Lee Hanes, Playtex,
      Champion, Leggs, Douwe Egberts, Bryan, DIM, Ambi Pur, Bali, Superior Coffee,
      Just My Size, Kiwi, Maison Cafe, Nur die, Pilao, Lovable, Outer Banks,
      Wonderbra, Sanex, Pickwick, Gossard, Body Mist, Brylcreem, Aqua Velva,
      Radox
      Siemens
      Selfridges
      Starbucks Seattle
      Coffee, Pasqua, Hear Music, Tazo
      Timberland

    • 2 years ago
  • bielski
  • bielski
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      bielski [removed]  
    • Now is the time to buy shares in disinvested Israeli companies folks. After Norway and UK trade unions have announced their intention to disinvest, share prices plummet......so buy them while they're cheap, support the companies and enjoy a great return on your investment.

    • 2 years ago
  • IngloriousBitch
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      IngloriousBitch [removed]  
    • Answer to the title -They will laugh in your face and say the Nazis tried this one before, making radical racist statements like the big bad Jews will silence you. This endless racist ranting about "Arab lands," is so disgusting it's just preposterous. 80% of Israelis are of Arab Origin including the Jews.. It's just historically innaccurate Iranian guard bullshit again and agian, like plusaf said, a broken record of BS. Arabs kill more babies per year than Israel could ever hope to in 40.
      I wish current could be a source for real information, not racist babble that includes Islamic history as if no one else- semitic, ever lived there, this article is a F.A.I.L. and we're not afraid of your divestment. Remember, Jews flourish under adversity.
      I have no need to silence racism.
      Just as apparently current has no need to remove material that is racially offensive. It's called enough rope to hang yourself.. Everyone can then see you for who you are by your own misguided offensive words that have no balance or journalistic integrity whatsoever. Choosing sides does not make you cool WPTV! Supporting one baby killer group over another is just as lame. Especially when one baby killer group is homophobic, sexist and racist and the other is democratic, multicultural and productive, therefore, boycottable. Lame.

    • 2 years ago
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • IngloriousBitch:

      You wrote, "Racist babble"
      Here are facts, not babble. I have only begun to gather today's murders so, there are only two reports here but if you like i can give the list, yes the entire list for this year, totalling more than six thousand murdered. All done by members of the terrorists who all proudly proclaim they are working for ala.
      So, here are only today's factws, not babble about people who are racists and discriminate against others not by seating them in the back of a bus, but by murdering them.

      2009.09.21 (Latifiya, Iraq) - Three people are incinerated by a Jihad bomb blast at a gas station.
      2009.09.21 (Sulu, Philippines) - Abu Sayyaf terrorists kill eight soldiers in an ambush.

      Oh, and here is a fact, not babble about hatred of blacks by Arab/Muslims. This is a quote from Amnesty International about true racism, not babble....
      Amnesty International got this message from the "victors" who worked for ala and got the killing done before the U.N. could get there....
      "The blood of the BLACKS runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land. The power of Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir belongs to the Arabs and we will kill you until the end, you blacks, we have killed your God."
      Arab women also racially insulted women from the village: "You are gorillas, you are black, and you are badly dressed."
      The Janjaweed Muslims have abducted women for use as sex slaves, in some cases breaking their limbs to prevent them escaping, as well as carrying out rapes in their home villages, the report said. The militiamen "are happy when they rape. They sing when they rape and they tell the BLACK prisoners that they are just slaves and that they can do with them what they wish."
      Meanwhile, they scream that Zionists practice Apartheid.

    • 2 years ago
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • Thank you Birdmanbob4! Stay brave and strong always.
      Nice people like you are not afraid to speak up. You will not just sit there and let them walk on you.
      Thank you for helping us see staight and honestly.

    • 2 years ago
  • Birdmanbob4
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      Birdmanbob4  
    • Abraham thank you for enlighting the uninlighted The world has learned form the USSR of old and Hitlers Germany the best way to keep the masses from joining forces internally is to keep them occupied with hatered of others and that is exactly what Multy arab countrys have done very well for way to long

    • 2 years ago
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • There is only one Arab country that has offered the Palestinians the chance to become citizens of their country, and that is, Jordan. The others 21 Arab/Muslim countries will not let the Palestinians in. If they sneak in, they will not be allowed to become permanent residents and certainly not citizens, and many times they are shot by their own "dear Muslim brothers."
      In Lebanon, where 60 percent of the all the Palestinians in the world now live in refugee camps, they are not allowed to leave the camps, and they are not allowed to get jobs or to become Lebanese citizens.
      There are 22 Arab countries and only one Jewish country. The land-rich Arabs already occupy over 5 million square miles (did I say five million square miles? Yes, I did.), and land-poor Israel, including all of its "stolen" territories, comprises only about 10,000 yes, ten thousand square miles. The Arab areas are thus 640 times larger than Israel, and the Arabs already possess 99.8% of the total land. So imagine a guy who is 640 times your size and he has 308 million friends and you have 7 million friends.
      However, that is not an illusion, that is the reality here. 308 million Arab Muslims in 22 countries against 7 million Jews in one country the size of 1/19 of California. The total square miles of the surrounding Arab Moslem countries is, 3,558,000.
      The total square miles of Israel even with the Gaza area included and the West Bank, all together is 10,500 square miles.
      HMMMMM...........Interesting....

    • 2 years ago
  • Birdmanbob4
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      Birdmanbob4  
    • hey kenny time for Cooler heads have come and gone Obama's millitary adviser has said he would advise the president to Shoot Down Isreal Plains if they were to fly to Iran to take out the Nucualar Bomb making Facilitys ......i am having a hart time finding "Any" of Obama's advisers who Look and sound like Clintons ..or Bushes ...

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  
    • Birdmanbob4:

      Has anything yet happened or is it purely speculation at this time? I'm thinking cooler heads are prevailing. I just heard an Israeli poll that only 4% of Israeli's think Obama supports them.

    • 2 years ago
  • Birdmanbob4
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      Birdmanbob4  
    • Abe said "Their god reached the highest he could go when he thought of giving the killers sex with a whole bunch of 16 year olds. Wow! What a great god, he reached the highest he could think of, sex. Now, ain't god great?" good one Abe sounds like ACORN now I know why the left thinks the way it does....this is all toung n cheek but I am in a Fun mood today

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • The Palestinian radicals and the other fundamentalists in Muslim countries, love the religion, not because they believe in ala, but because they love to treat women like crap and their "religion" affords them that opportunity all the time. It's the religion of love. They love to hate and love to kill and love to treat women like dirt.
      A study of female homicide in Alexandria, Egypt, found that 47% of all women killed, were murdered by a relative after they had been raped by that relative. But so what, don't forget boys and girls, even after they rape and then murder, they then go to heaven for.........you guessed it,....sex. So to review class, screw 'em, kill 'em, then go to heaven for sex. Ain't god great?

      As Muhammad said: "A woman's paradise is under the heel of her husband."
      HMMMMM..........Interesting......

    • 2 years ago
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • See the little tiny sweet little tiny innocent peace loving little boy holding the teddy bear? He is being attacked by an armored helicopter which just shot a missile to hit the sweet tiny little boy with his tiny eeny weeny teddy bear.
      Since 2001, the sweet dear non violent wonderful innocent fundamentalist Muslims have carried out 14,095 attacks agianst other countries, nationalities and people and religions.
      Did I say 14,095 dead?
      No, 14,095 attacks. Many of us already know that an attack usually leaves many murdered by the scholars and intelligent heroes of on their way to heaven to have sex. An attack means they tried to murder many...then they get even more sex. How do we know? Mohamed told us. How does Mohamed know? God told him. Not only that, but god told mohamed to tell us that god said that if we murder the ones who don't want to be Muslims, we will get sex in heaven.

      Their god reached the highest he could go when he thought of giving the killers sex with a whole bunch of 16 year olds. Wow! What a great god, he reached the highest he could think of, sex. Now, ain't god great?
      Murder people and spill their blood and chop their heads off and then you go to heaven for sex.
      HMMMMM........Interesting....

    • 2 years ago
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • Oh, and notice how the artist they hu=ired shows the evil face of Israel as being BLACK?
      This exposes the artist as being so low and prejudiced and discriminatory. So he paints the Jewish face black because he feels that black is evil.
      HMMMM.....Interesting....

    • 2 years ago
  • mrEddie
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  
    • Do they pay worldpeacetv to show their propoganda?

      Notice how he uses big and large and huge and long and thick pictures and posters and signs and blogs?
      Does anyone think that worldpeacetv is compensating for being tiny and little and small and short and thin in other areas?
      In psychology, it is called "OVERCOMPENSATION DUE TO FEELINGS OF INADEQUACY."
      HMMMM...interesting.....

    • 2 years ago
  • bielski
  • WorldPeaceTV
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
    • ISRAEL BOYCOTT/BDS UPDATE:

      BlackRock divests from Africa-Israel

      STOP THE WALL!

      09/15/2009

      The former party at interest in Africa-Israel has reportedly succumbed to pressure from Scandinavian banks over West Bank construction.

      Gaza Horizon

      UK investment bank BlackRock, part of the global investment bank BlackRock Inc. sold all its shares in Africa-Israel Investments Ltd. between June and August following pressure from three Scandinavian banks over construction in West Bank settlements. Africa-Israel, controlled by chairman Lev Leviev, is involved in construction activities in the West Bank including at Ma'aleh Adumim near Jerusalem.

      BlackRock's divestment comes in the wake of the refusal of the UK Embassy in Tel Aviv's to rent offices owned by Africa-Israel because of its construction work in West Bank settlements. In the past BlackRock was Africa-Israel's second largest party at interest.

      BlackRock denies that they divested after pressure from Norwegian investors, but does not wish to precise exactly what they think is wrong in the coverage.

      Ongoing Campaigns

      Irish activists pressure firm to divest from Wall construction

      Gaza Horizon

      Activists in Ireland held a demonstration in front of CRH, formerly known as Cement Roadstone Holdings, protesting the firm’s involvement in the construction of the Apartheid Wall, checkpoints and settlements

      CRH owns 25 percent of the Israeli construction firm Mashav Group, which recently announced that it will acquire Hanson Israel, a subsidiary of Germany's HeidelbergCement and holder of illegal quarries in the West Bank

      The ugly reality of Israel's settlement-made beauty products

      Gaza Horizon

      Israel enjoys free trade of industrial goods with Europe under the Association Agreement it signed with the European Union in 2000. Yakov Ellis, chief executive officer of the Israeli cosmetics company Ahava, told the BBC radio program Today on 5 November 2008 that his company has benefitted from the free trade with the EU. Ahava owns stores in London and Berlin, and signed a contract in 2008 with the leading French perfumery chain Sephora, which has stores all over Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.
      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
      It gets bigger every day

    • 2 years ago
  • Yonas_Gad
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      Yonas_Gad  
    • BEFORE BOYCOTTING THE ISRAELI PRODUCTS, YOU HAVE TO BOYCOTT AT FIRST THE quran BECAUSE ISRAEL IS LISTED FOR MANY TIME IN THE quran.
      if you believe in God you should believe in the Quran and if you believe in the Quran you should Accept and believe in the HOLY ISRAEL.
      could you tell me how many time the Mecque or Palestine is mentioned in the Quran?
      Don't be STupid guys.

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
    • A review of US Commerce Department data conducted by the Post found that the number of boycott-related and restrictive trade-practice requests received by American companies from Saudi Arabia has increased in each of the past two years, rising from 42 in 2006 to 65 in 2007 to 74 in 2008, signifying a jump of more than 76 percent.

      The bulk of these requests were related to the companies’ or products’ relationship to Israel. Typically, Saudi officials ask foreign suppliers to affirm that any goods exported to the desert kingdom are not manufactured in Israel and do not contain any Israeli-made components.

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • by the way the left wing supports israel but the right does more.
      being that the middle east is important to the us capitalist machine due to oil israel is the only democracy in the region we can count on.
      as long as arabs use terrorism israel will be our best friend.

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
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    • Norway leads the way and boycotts the apartheid state of Israel. It’s time for Europe to follow!
      (and follow, it surely is!)-good info at link

      The Norwegian boycott of Israel has made a bold statement that it will not condone its continued occupation of Palestine and violation of human rights. Other foreign governments, companies, academics, art and entertainment communities as well as faith-based organizations, unions and citizens need to make the same ethical stand against Israel as it did against the former apartheid government of South Africa. Boycotts worked then and they would work now.

      Europe must disregard accusations of being called anti-Semitic. This is empty rhetoric and an attempt by the Zionist regime to intimidate and discourage opposition to the criminal behavior of Israel.

      A strong, united European stand against the crimes of Israel with an international boycott would send a clear message that the silence of its critics is over. To do nothing would not only encourage Israel to commit more crimes it will intensify the culture of violence and revenge which ripped Europe apart in the first half of the last century.

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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    • Israeli Apartheid Week
      www.apartheidweek.org

      In his speech to the conference, AIPAC leader Hauk twice referred to Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), an annual series of presentations and film showings that focus on the Israeli apartheid system and the need for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Initiated at the University of Toronto in 2005, IAW events took place this year on five continents in more than 40 cities and towns, 11 of them in Israeli-occupied Palestine, during the first week of March.[vii]
      Organizers of IAW in Canada, one of the centers of the movement, had to contend with a sustained barrage of attacks and threats from Zionist organizations backed up by the federal government. In February Jason Kenney, Canada's Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism, decried the "anti-Zionist version of anti-Semitism" which maintains that "the Jews alone have no right to a homeland." A few weeks later Kenny took aim directly at IAW. Speaking to the House of Commons, he proclaimed that "Israel Apartheid Week is not about [freedom of opinion] .... We condemn these efforts to single out and attack the Jewish people and their homeland." He thus suggested, without the slightest basis in fact, that IAW organizers were violating Canada's criminal code, which bans "hate propaganda."
      University administrators on a number of campuses followed the government's lead, attempting to disrupt Israeli Apartheid Week. But IAW organizers were successful in beating back these attacks. The daily events unfolded as planned, with audiences of up to 500 in Toronto and Ottawa and 400 in Montreal.[viii]
      Boycott Motorola, Caterpillar, Israeli produce
      Campus-based activities in solidarity with Palestine are one facet of a broader international campaign, which includes targeted boycotts of companies that profit from Israel's oppression of the Palestinians.
      Motorola is one such company. The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is urging consumers to "Hang Up On Motorola" until it stops selling communications and surveillance equipment to the Israeli military and to Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. The group organized a protest outside Motorola's annual shareholders meeting in Chicago on May 4. Inside the meeting, representatives of the Presbyterian, United Methodist and other churches pressed shareholders to adopt a resolution that would instruct Motorola to follow corporate standards consistent with international law.
      The pressure on Motorola has already forced it to give up some ground. After Human Rights Watch announced that its teams had found shrapnel carrying Motorola serial numbers at some of the civilian sites bombed by Israel in its recent assault on Gaza, the company sold the department that makes the fuses for the bombs.[ix]

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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    • In what one newspaper described as "the biggest student revolt for 20 years," students in the U.K. organized occupations at 34 universities. They used the facilities to hold meetings and show films promoting awareness of the oppression of the Palestinians. Many occupations demanded that their university provide practical aid to Palestinian universities and students. Another common theme of the movement was a call to end all ties to arms manufacturers - the university-military connection being particularly strong in the U.K. The universities promote research that benefits the merchants of death; they also invest in those companies.
      The student movement achieved some notable gains. Glasgow Strathclyde University agreed to end its purchases from Eden Springs, an Israeli company that produces bottled water from land in the Golan Heights that Israel refuses to return to Syria. Several universities agreed to provide scholarships to Palestinian students. Others organized fundraising for Palestine; many of these efforts are ongoing. The Oxford and Manchester universities agreed to donate surplus books, journals and other educational material to universities in Palestine.
      At the University of Manchester, an emergency meeting of the student union attended by more than 850 people adopted a motion committing the union to campaign for BDS.
      One of the most important results of the wave of occupations was to raise consciousness of the Palestine issue among thousands of students and beyond. It also provided activists with valuable experience in organizing on this issue and forged links between them. Following on the occupations, many of the campus Palestine committees have increased their activity in support of BDS. Efforts are also being made to build a more sustained student Palestine solidarity movement.[iv]
      In early February, new ground was conquered in the U.S. when Hampshire College agreed to implement a policy of divestment, the first college or university in the country to do so. Bowing to a two-year campaign by Students for Justice in Palestine, the Board of Trustees agreed to withdraw its investments from six companies targeted by SJP because they profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. SPJ noted that "this groundbreaking decision follows in Hampshire's history of being the first college in the country to divest from apartheid South Africa 32 years ago, a decision based on similar human rights concerns."[v]
      Archbishop Desmond Tutu hailed the decision: "This is a monumental and historic step in the struggle for Palestinian equality, self-determination and peace in the Holy Land by non-violent means. I see what these students have accomplished as a replica of the support of their college of our struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Hampshire College's decision to divest should be a guiding example to all institutions of higher learning."[vi]

    • 2 years ago
  • IngloriousBitch
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    • WorldPeaceTV:

      But isn't supporting Palestinians supporting baby killers too? Many babies ave been blown up on busses or shot at on roads or died in rocket attacks over the years.Oh I forgot, your post LIKES only MUSLIM baby killers right? They are some kind of "freedom fighters?" Killing Jewish babies is ok? How very 1940's.

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    • The appeal from Palestine said, in part,
      We, representatives of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era. We appeal to you to pressure your respective states to impose embargoes and sanctions against Israel. We also invite conscientious Israelis to support this call, for the sake of justice and genuine peace.
      These non-violent punitive measures should be maintained until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people's inalienable right to self-determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law by:
      1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall;
      2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
      3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in U.N. resolution 194.[iii]

    • 2 years ago
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