Boycott Israel

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You’re a mental patient, posting compulsively about Israel since 2009 on a messageboard.

US-Israel Advanced Technology Partnership: “Reflects the true friendship between our peoples and shared values of democratic principles and human rights.”

Joint U.S.-Israel Statement on Launching Strategic High-Level Dialogue on Technology | The White House

 

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No surprise. The French are very antisemitic, and getting moreso as the Muslim haters immigrate to France.

 

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You’re a mental patient, posting compulsively about Israel since 2009 on a messageboard.

US-Israel Advanced Technology Partnership: “Reflects the true friendship between our peoples and shared values of democratic principles and human rights.”

Joint U.S.-Israel Statement on Launching Strategic High-Level Dialogue on Technology | The White House

Not only that, but he’s posting from a foreign country.

 

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Two people.

It's amazing!
Twice as many people as last year.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Pundits on the left point to the enduring Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the reason why Israel continues to be condemned in the media, international forums and sometimes almost everywhere. Pundits on the right point to the eternal nature of antisemitism and say, well, what can you expect?

But there is another reason that gets far less attention: good old-fashioned profit. Put simply, bashing Israel is good business.

For example, there is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which is devoted to one kind of refugee in the world: Palestinian Arabs. UNRWA has unilaterally decided to rewrite the rules on who qualifies as a refugee, so that not only any Arab who fled or was displaced during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948 is a perpetual refugee, but so are their progeny, regardless of whether they have become citizens of other countries. Thanks to UNRWA’s bizarre perversion of international law, which applies to no other group of refugees in the world, there are now some seven million people who fit this definition.

UNRWA is also very, very rich. It enjoys a $1 billion annual budget, employs tens of thousands of workers and is one of the largest “industries” in Palestinian society. No one involved in it would dare to contemplate turning off the money faucet.

The Palestinian leadership certainly has no intention of doing so. By cynically tugging the heart strings of a gullible Western world, which then happily opens its wallet, Palestinian leaders have made enormous amounts of money by a time-honored method: They stole it.

Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, for example, has a fortune estimated at $3 billion. His deputy, Abu Marzouk, is forced to struggle through life with only $2 billion. Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas is somewhat more modest, with only $100 million, while his two sons are thought to be worth $300 million. Of course, it is reasonable to suspect that a large part of the Abbas family’s assets have been carefully hidden and therefore cannot even be estimated.

Further down the trough are the terrorists paid monthly salaries by the P.A. in thanks for murdering Jews. The more Jews are killed, the higher the monthly payments. These “pay to slay” salaries currently add up to $345 million per annum.

Besides UNRWA and the terrorist warlords, we cannot forget the anti-Israeli propaganda industry. After all, someone has to maintain the West’s guilty conscience, or the money might stop flowing. This is where the BDS organizations come in—Palestinian organizations, Western organizations and even Israeli organizations.

It is important to emphasize that there is often a deep connection between these anti-Israel NGOs and various terrorist organizations. The organization Addameer, for example, is affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Yet despite its terror connections, Addameer is well remunerated. It has received more than 20 million euros from the Dutch government over the past decade. Thankfully, after Dutch government officials were presented with evidence of Addameer’s involvement in terrorism, the aid funds were frozen.

Addameer is by no means alone. Between 2016-2020, the United Nations donated at least $40,000,000 to 19 Palestinian BDS organizations. Eight of these organizations have been linked to the PFLP, and six of them were declared terrorist organizations by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz in Aug. 2022. The cash payments to these groups were transferred through such rarified international institutions as the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The art of money laundering is by no means confined to drug cartels.

Western BDS organizations that operate in international institutions and on scores of campuses also receive hundreds of millions of dollars a year from various sources and governments. One of the largest and most prosperous is the Open Society Foundations, bankrolled by the left-wing billionaire George Soros.

This organization received a staggering $18 billion from Soros in 2017 and supports a large number of prominent BDS organizations. Members of 20 of these groups are prohibited from entering Israel. In 2016, Open Society Foundations internal documents were published anonymously by the Russia-linked site DCLeaks. Among the documents were instructions to put pressure on the European Union to implement a policy of labeling Israeli products produced in Judea and Samaria, something that would dramatically strengthen the BDS movement.

This is a homegrown problem as well. Over the last decade, 70 Israeli organizations whose work is indistinguishable from that of foreign anti-Israel NGOs received no less than $260 million from foreign governments, the E.U. and the U.N. At the top of the donor countries were Germany, the U.S., the Netherlands, Switzerland and Norway.

Not everyone passionately hates Israel, but almost everyone wants to get rich. With this kind of money on offer, and the prospect of lucrative careers ahead of them, why would anyone want to risk missing out on all that filthy lucre by giving up their hatred of the Jewish state?

Understanding Israel-hatred: Follow the $$

Why would NGOs, U.N. agencies and international organizations ever want to give up the filthy lucre they get for bashing Israel?

www.jewishpress.com

 

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[Hollie]

Colonial settlements defines the history of Islamism.

 

[Hollie]

Oh, dear.

Israel, Jordan, UAE to expedite water-for-power project

en.globes.co.il

Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are due to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) today to accelerate implementation of a project involving water in exchange for electricity that was agreed exactly a year ago.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Electronic Intifada trumpets:

The legal dispute between Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company Unilever has ended in a bit of a fudge.

But as a result, the ice cream maker can say that it is standing by its July 2021 decision to end all business in Israel so as not to be complicit in Israel’s illegal colonization of occupied Palestinian land.

That being the case, the outcome can be seen as a win for supporters of Palestinian rights.

As usually is the case with Israel-haters, they are lying.

When Unilever said that it would sell its Ben & Jerry's business in Israel to an Israeli company back in June, its own Ben & Jerry's subsidiary sued its parent company stop the sale altogether and to not allow anyone to sell ice cream with their name in Israel and the West Bank.

This settlement is a loss for Ben & Jerry's - as the Israeli company says in its press release:

Avi Zinger, issued the following statement in response to the settlement reached today by Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s:

“I am pleased that the litigation between Unilever and the independent Board of Ben & Jerry’s has been resolved. There is no change to the agreement I made with Unilever earlier in the year. I look forward to continuing to produce and sell the great tasting Ben & Jerry’s ice cream under the Hebrew and Arabic trademarks throughout Israel and the West Bank long into the future.”

Zinger's company, American Quality Products Ltd (AQP), can still sell ice cream named Ben and Jerry's in Israel and in the West Bank - and to Palestinians, too. All of which Ben and Jerry's tried to stop.

The only "victory" for Ben and Jerry's, which the haters are loudly bragging about, is that Israel is no longer mentioned in the Ben and Jerry's "Where We Do Business" webpage. They add a paragraph saying,

Unilever has sold trademark rights to the Hebrew and Arabic language versions of the Ben & Jerry’s name to Blue & White Ice-Cream Ltd. No English language trademark of the Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. has been transferred to Blue & White Ice-Cream Ltd. Blue & White Ice-Cream Ltd. is a completely separate and distinct entity from Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. Ben & Jerry’s has no ownership of or economic interest in Blue & White Ice-Cream Ltd.

This was exactly the situation in June when Unilever sold the trademark rights to AQP/Blue and White.

Ben & Jerry's dropped the lawsuit and gained exactly nothing from it. Unilever changed nothing, AQP changed nothing.

The only people who can call this a "victory" for Ben & Jerry's are people whose interest in truth is nonexistent.

The ironic thing is that, in one sense, this really is a victory for "supporters of Palestinian rights." Because now, Ben & Jerry's can be sold to Palestinian stores in the West Bank, with Arabic labeling, when before it was not available. But people who call themselves "supporters of Palestinian rights" are against that outcome, because the manufacturer is Israeli.

They don't want Palestinians to decide for themselves what kind of ice cream they can buy. They want to make that decision for them. Which shows you how little they care about "Palestinian rights."

(I'm also wondering whether the Unilever agreement with AQP would allow AQP to sell Arabic-labeled B&J ice cream to the UAE, Bahrain or other Arab countries - none of which now can obtain Ben & Jerry's ice cream. It would be truly ironic to see the Ben & Jerry's company protesting an Israeli company selling its Arabic-labeled ice cream to Arab countries - a symbol of peaceful relations - in the name of "social justice.")

Ben and Jerry's drops lawsuit against Unilever, but Israel haters claim victory anyway. Because lying is what they do.

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

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[ Even more BDS fail ]

7-Eleven to open in Tel Aviv on January 11

The first branch will be located at Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv, with dozens of additional branches planned in the coming years.

www.jpost.com

 

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Robbie Williams, Sam Smith to perform in Israel in 2023

The Summer in the City music festival will take place across two days in May-June in Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv.

www.jpost.com

 

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Texas and Virginia Commissions: BDS Plays Key Role In Fomenting Antisemitism

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction movement against Israel contributes strongly to campus environments hostile to Jews.

legalinsurrection.com

 

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