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BDS Campaign Fails for the Fourth Time | The Bottom Line

BDS Campaign Fails for the Fourth Time

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign at the University of California, Santa Barbara failed Wednesday night when Associated Students senators voted 0-16-7 against a resolution urging UC Regents to divest from companies that do business with Israel. By the end, well into the early morning hours, the legitimacy of several of the resolution’s claims were called into question.

 

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Irish protesters swarm Israeli embassy in Dublin

An Irish crowd, brandishing Palestinian flags and anti-occupation banners, have marched upon the Israeli embassy in Dublin to protest 50 years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.

The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) led the demonstration through the city; supported by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), Mandate, the NUIG Palestine Solidarity Society and numerous other organisations and human rights groups.

"The occupation has seen five decades of hell for the people of Palestine,” said IPSC director, Fatin Al Tamimi, “my people, not to mention a century of injustice dating back to the Balfour Declaration which granted the land of Palestine to the Zionist movement to colonise at the expense of its indigenous people.”

Irish protesters swarm Israeli embassy in Dublin

 

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UK Government Defeated in Court by BDS Activists for Palestinian Human Rights

The court ruled that it is unlawful for the government to restrict local councils from exercising their conscience and divesting their pensions from Israeli companies complicit in violating Palestinian human rights.

The Administrative Court today held that the Government had acted for an improper purpose by seeking to use pension law to pursue its own foreign and defence policy. Accordingly the relevant parts of the Guidance were held to be unlawful and no longer restrict LGPS in their pension decisions.

UK Government Defeated in Court by BDS Activists for Palestinian Human Rights

 

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Meanwhile in Holland...Largest Israeli Public Transportation Company Loses Netherlands Contract Worth 190 Million Euros Following Campaign by BDS Activists for Palestinian Rights

Egged is integral to IDF military transportation, especially during mobilisation, well done Dutch BDS!

 

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There have been many brave performers who have performed in Israel despite threats from the BDS movement--Paul McCartney, Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys, Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, etc. Bravo!! Jews have a perfect right to take less than 1% of Arab land to escape persecution and establish a homeland in the exact place from which they gave the Bible to the world. It is up to the Palestinians whether they want to share the land peacefully, or else let the Jews take the whole tiny land.

 

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There have been many brave performers who have performed in Israel despite threats from the BDS movement--Paul McCartney, Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys, Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, etc. Bravo!! Jews have a perfect right to take less than 1% of Arab land to escape persecution and establish a homeland in the exact place from which they gave the Bible to the world. It is up to the Palestinians whether they want to share the land peacefully, or else let the Jews take the whole tiny land.

When you are thrown out of your home, it doesn't matter if it is only 1% of Arab land.

 

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Sacramento transit drops G4S

Activists in Sacramento are welcoming the decision by the California capital’s transportation board to drop its security contract with G4S, after a campaign highlighting the company’s role in rights abuses in Palestine and the US.

G4S, the world’s largest security corporation, has helped operate Israeli prisons where Palestinians are tortured and has managed juvenile prisons, detention and deportation facilities in the US and UK.

The firm has also been implicated in labor and human rights abuses from Africa to the offshore facilities where Australia detains refugees and asylum seekers.

Over 20 months, activists with SacRideHuman – a coalition of dozens of labor, faith-based, human rights and Palestine advocacy groups – campaigned for Sacramento Regional Transit’s board to redirect funds previously spent on the three-year G4S contract to in-house, unionized jobs.

Sacramento transit drops G4S

 

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There have been many brave performers who have performed in Israel despite threats from the BDS movement--Paul McCartney, Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys, Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, etc. Bravo!! ...

To some performers, greed is stronger than morality, thus it ever was and ever shall be, courage has nothing to with it. For others, wrapped up in their bubble of wealth and privilage, why should they care one way or the other...pass the Champagne, would you?

 

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"New YouGov polling on British public support for Palestine has shown a high level of support for the Palestinian cause – and a level of consensus that is remarkably consistent across party lines.

Participants were asked whether Britain should review financial and trade relationships with illegal Israeli settlements. There was little difference between Conservative voters agreeing (44%) and Labour voters agreeing (52%), suggesting a strong cross-party consensus on the issue. Lib Dem voters were the most likely to agree the review should happen at 56%.

Participants were also asked whether they thought the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions issued in 2005 was reasonable. A majority of Labour (51%) and Lib Dem voters (54%) thought BDS was reasonable. A total of 40% of Conservative voters also found BDS reasonable – underscoring a divergence between the Conservative leadership and party supporters.

The data fundamentally undermines Theresa May’s previous claim that “The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is wrong, it is unacceptable, and this party and this government will have no truck with those who subscribe to it”. In fact, 40% of potential Tory voters disagree with her."

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.n...CampaignResults_170508_Palestine_Israel_W.pdf

Go Britain!!

 

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[Hollie]

Anti-BDS laws succeed.

 

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Anti-BDS laws succeed.

Still does not make BDS illegal. BDS does not care what the tools in governments do.

 

[Hollie]

Anti-BDS laws succeed.

Still does not make BDS illegal. BDS does not care what the tools in governments do.

I made no claim that BDS is illegal. It's just obvious to many what the BDS / Islamist agenda is about.

 

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[Hollie]

It seems the failing is yours and those like you.

BDS, like other hate groups, (KKK, Neo-Nazis, Islamists, etc.,), tend to have a lifespan that comes and goes fairly quickly.

 

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Dutch activists cost Israeli bus company $216 million

In June 2017, Israel’s largest public transport company, Egged Bus Systems, lost a jaw-dropping €190 million ($216 million) contract in Holland, Middle East Monitor reported.

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists hailed a momentous victory when their successful campaigning stopped the bus company from signing a 10-year contract worth €19.1 million ($22.6 million) a year.

Dutch activists cost Israeli bus company $216 million

 

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Dutch activists cost Israeli bus company $216 million

In June 2017, Israel’s largest public transport company, Egged Bus Systems, lost a jaw-dropping €190 million ($216 million) contract in Holland, Middle East Monitor reported.

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists hailed a momentous victory when their successful campaigning stopped the bus company from signing a 10-year contract worth €19.1 million ($22.6 million) a year.

Dutch activists cost Israeli bus company $216 million

Such an angry little, muhammedan.


Israel Economy Facts & Stats

 

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Protesters shut down UK-based Israeli arms factory

Palestine solidarity campaigners and anti-war activists shut down three UK based “death factories” belonging to Elbit, Israel’s largest arms producer.

On 6 July, demonstrators rallied against the manufacture of weapons used in war crimes and to demand that Elbit’s factories are permanently closed. Elbit produces drone parts for the Israeli military.

Amnesty International reported that drone components made in the UK were used in Israel’s 2008-9 attack on Gaza, which killed over 1,400 Palestinians, and the 2014 offensive which killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 551 children.

“Elbit is coined a 'death factory', because that's exactly what it is," said campaigner Sarah Wilkinson. "Today's protest was to send out a bold message to Israel and its supporters, that the unwitting British public should not be made complicit in Israel's ongoing war crimes against the Palestinian people."

Protesters shut down UK-based Israeli arms factory