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Without fanfare, Australia opens trade and defense office in Jerusalem

 

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Hotel prices fall as Eurovision demand disappoints

20 days before the Eurovision Song Contest begins, prices of flights and hotels in Israel indicate that the expected wave of tourists has failed to materialize.

Hotel prices fall as Eurovision demand disappoints

 

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Hotel prices fall as Eurovision demand disappoints

20 days before the Eurovision Song Contest begins, prices of flights and hotels in Israel indicate that the expected wave of tourists has failed to materialize.

Hotel prices fall as Eurovision demand disappoints

Eh, I wouldn't worry about it. A profit will still be made, huge or not huge.

 

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Israeli Wins Medal at Prestigious International Chemistry Competition

 

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Libyans hold signs during a demonstration against the presence of Jews in Libya and the reopening of the Dar Bishi Synagogue in Tripoli on Oct. 7, 2011.(Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)

Nothing much has changed.

 

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From Students Supporting Israel, Columbia:

A few weeks ago, SSI Columbia reached out to SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) and JVP (Jewish Voice for Peace) with great hope and expectations of finally doing something productive about the long-debated issue of holding civil and constructive discussion on campus regarding the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. We asked nothing more than a phlegmatic setting to discuss different views and narratives, hopefully, provided by newly elected CCSC. Today, in a public statement, SJP has not only rejected our open offer but also virulently used made up claims and half-truths to justify their insistence on marginalizing and boycotting pro-Israel voices on this campus.


SSI’s invitation to host a joint event came as a result of SJP claiming that they want to promote dialogue on this issue on campus.


SSI took up SJP on their claim of wanting dialogue - and they called their bluff beautifully.

SJP not only rejected the call for dialogue - they admitted that they would never have spoken to SSI anyway:

" Normally, an invitation such as this would be rejected due to SJP’s anti-normalization policy, which means that we don’t participate in collaborative events with Zionist groups on the grounds that such events do more to obscure, rather than expose, the fundamental power imbalance at the heart of the settler-colonial situation in Palestine."


But then they said that SSI was "racist" with examples that are not at all racist by any definition. For example, "Most recently, SSI hosted a 'social activism' workshop with a representative of Act.Il, an Israeli propaganda app closely linked to the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs and other clandestine intelligence organizations." All of their examples are equally bizarre.

SJP doesn't stop there. They not only say that SSI is "racist," but "We believe organizations like SSI, given their racist rhetoric and their recorded history of harassment, must be effectively deplatformed."

(full article online)

Columbia's Students Supporting Israel exposes the hate of Students for Justice in Palestine ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News


Anti-Zionist Group at Columbia University Calls for Boycott of ‘Pro-Israel’ Clubs, Equates Zionism With Antisemitism

 

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Israel and the Gulf States: On the Way to Open Normalization

 

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International celebs slam calls for boycott of Eurovision in Israel

 

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UN Officials Promote HRW’s In-House BDS Activist

 

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The 1994 Paris Protocol was of course signed by the PLO rather than “the Palestinian Authority” and was incorporated into the Oslo II agreement of 1995. Rowley fails to provide any proper explanation of her dubious claim that “Palestinians cannot import what they like from abroad and are prevented from developing their own products freely” which apparently relates to restrictions on dual-use goods which can be used for terrorism.

Neither does Rowley bother to inform readers that while her quoted ‘authority’ Magid Shihade is not an economist, he is a ‘one-stater’ who co-founded the ‘US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel’ as well as (together with his wife) another pro-BDS group called ‘Pakistanis for Palestine’.

The Paris Protocol is seen by the BDS movement as part of the cooperation with Israel which it rejects and in 2007 PACBI (The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) recommended that the BDS campaign “Build pressure on PA officials for ending normalization with Israel (end security coordination, rescind Paris Protocol on economic cooperation, etc.)”. It therefore comes as no surprise to see BDS campaigner Magid Shihade advocating the annulment of that treaty.

(full article online)

BBC Business ‘forgets’ to clarify that quoted academic is BDS campaigner

 

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Report: Over 500 Global Corporations From 35 Countries Operate In Israel | Technology News

 

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How can you satirize the absurdity of a leader of the Women's March, a huge rock star, a documentary maker who used to be a commentator on CNN and a sportswriter for a national publication complaining that they are being "silenced"at a public event at a major university?

I'm sorry, but have any of these people been "silenced?" Have they been intimidated into not speaking their minds?

These "silenced" critics of Israel - who often traffic in antisemitism as well - somehow manage to get on the front pages of major media. Their tweets get retweeted thousands of times by their fans.

It is absurd.

If anything, when people point out any antisemitism they traffic in, like Marc Lamont Hill's accusation that Israeli Jews are poisoning Palestinians' water, that doesn't get mentioned in the major media in stories about Hill. He's regarded as being merely a "pro-Palestinian activist."

That is what silencing looks like.

I also tweeted about the hypocrisy going on here:

Upcoming UMass conference with @lsarsour, @marclamonthill and @rogerwaters:: "We hate when those racist, colonialist, baby-killing, water poisoning, America controlling 'Zionists' try to silence us by calling us antisemitic." pic.twitter.com/b7MCu6E957
— Elder Of Ziyon ҉ (@elderofziyon) May 1, 2019

(full article online)

Prominent, internationally famous haters of Israel whine about being "silenced" at University of Massachusetts panel discussion ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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To Boost Its Fintech Industry, Spain Launches Tel Aviv-Hong Kong Immersion Program

 

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Leaders of Kazakhstan, Democratic Republic of Congo keen on Israel trip

 

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I’m not sure what I find more disturbing: the publication of an anti-Semitic cartoon in the New York Times or the fact that similar disgusting images have been appearing in the media, and on social media, for a long time without causing very much fuss.

Of course, the NYT has apologised for publishing the cartoon, which shows the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as a guide dog wearing a Star of David, leading a blind President Trump in a kippah. It’s a classic trope: powerful Jews leading the world’s politicians astray.

But the apology had an air of calculated indifference to the harm that the cartoon caused. ‘The image was offensive, and it was an error of judgement’, said the insincere statement. For me, the use of the term ‘error of judgement’ to describe the publication of an anti-Semitic cartoon is more significant than the hateful image itself. For what the NYTis really saying when it uses this term is that the publication of the cartoon was not a big deal.

For some time now, I have wondered why cartoonists, journalists and public figures who describe themselves as leftists or progressives are so cavalier about circulating anti-Semitic images. It first hit me in 2002, when the editor of the New Statesman had to apologise for a front cover which featured a Star of David imposed on the Union flag next to the headline: ‘A Kosher Conspiracy.’ The accompanying article was devoted to exposing the supposed machinations of Britain’s pro-Israel lobby. That the NS could publish such a hideous cover image indicated that journalists were increasingly relaxed about crossing an important line. It was the first of many ‘errors of judgement’ regarding media promotion of anti-Semitism.
Another example, one of the worst, was the dreadful motif of Jewish infanticide that appeared in a 2003 cartoon in the Independent. The cartoon showed Ariel Sharon eating the head of a Palestinian baby and saying: ‘What’s wrong? Have you never seen a politician kissing a baby?’ This time there was not even a perfunctory ‘error of judgement’ apology for a cartoon that played on racist prejudices of Jews sacrificing non-Jewish children.

Instead, the cartoon won the 2003 Political Cartoon of the Year Award.

The casual anti-Semitism of the woke cartoonist

 

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As Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations got underway on Wednesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the danger still posed by antisemitism across the globe.

“The radical right, the radical left and radical Islam agree only on one thing — hatred of Jews,” Netanyahu said in his speech at an official state ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

The prime minister made an apparent reference to the recent controversy surrounding a cartoon published in the international edition of The New York Times that was widely condemned as antisemitic.

“The publication of caricatures of hate toward Israel undermines the legitimacy of the Jewish state,” he said.

Netanyahu also called for more international pressure on the regime in Tehran,

As Holocaust Remembrance Day Begins, Netanyahu Warns of Danger Still Posed by Antisemitism Worldwide

 

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Nothing much has changed since the Middle Ages.

Primitive.

 

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President of Congo Accepts Invitation to Visit Israel

 

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This is true. People who might be related to terrorists are subject to additional screening. This is true in every country on the planet - for example, in France in 2015 some 1000 people were refused entry in a mere two week period in 2015 because of suspicion of terror ties. That's far more than Israel ever has barred. The vast majority of people detained at Israel's airport are ultimately allowed in, and no student who wants to study in Israel has been stopped as far as I can tell. (One was denied entry and the decision was reversed.)

What about denying entry to people based on their political beliefs? The UK does it all the time. Wikipedia has a page of people refused entry to the UK for their political beliefs, from Pamela Geller to Louis Farrakhan.

Needless to say, this NYU department isn't boycotting the UK or France.

The real hypocrisy comes from the fact that the only people Israel bans are people who support BDS - and any supporter of BDS from NYU would be duty bound not to visit NYU Tel Aviv to begin with! Meaning that the Israeli restrictions do not stop a single NYU student from studying in Tel Aviv, and the entire argument that Israel is discriminating against some percentage of NYU students is false - as NYU itself observed.

Moreover, NYU has a Travel Advisory page for students visiting its campuses in Abu Dhabi and Sydney as well, and notes travel restrictions on students to those countries (those with Israeli passports cannot go to Abu Dhabi; NYU Sydney has a bunch of Australian visa rules to deal with, meaning that - just like Israel - some people have to jump through some hoops before ultimately being allowed in.

Needless to say, this NYU department is not boycotting the Sydney or Abu Dhabi campuses.

The hypocrisy of the BDS crowd is as bad as it ever was.

(full article online)

NYU social sciences department boycotts NYT Tel Aviv for hypocritical reasons ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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[ Anything about Israel must be negated ]

Williams College Student Leaders Deny Recognition to ‘Pro-Israel’ Group, Prompting Calls for Inquiry