BDS is going, going, gone down the toilet:

[Roudy]

The problem for these anti-Israel idiots, is that the country doesn't really produce and export a lot. Just try to find something from Israel that you can buy. Not easy, I've tried to find stuff to buy so I can support them.

You'll see Israeli products in many high tech, scientific, military, and medical devices. Guess who was able to unlock the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone? And Israeli high tech company.

Obviously, countries that are closer to Israel have an opportunity to trade in perishables as well. Many Arab countries including Iran and yes, the Palestinians themselves are doing business with Israel. And Israel just opened up huge trade partnerships with China, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Columbia, and many other countries.

 

[RoccoR]

Roudy, PredFan, et al,

There is a lot of truth in this observation.

The problem for these anti-Israel idiots, is that the country doesn't really produce and export a lot. Just try to find something from Israel that you can buy. Not easy, I've tried to find stuff to buy so I can support them.

You'll see Israeli products in many high tech, scientific, military, and medical devices. Guess who was able to unlock the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone? And Israeli high tech company.

Obviously, countries that are closer to Israel have an opportunity to trade in perishables as well. Many Arab countries including Iran and yes, the Palestinians themselves are doing business with Israel. And Israel just opened up huge trade partnerships with China, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Columbia, and many other countries.

(COMMENT)

The gap between Import, Export and Debt for Israel is not that great.

Israel's exports to America amounted to
$18.1 billion or 30.3% of its overall exports.

1. Gems, precious metals: $7.3 billion
2. Pharmaceuticals: $3.1 billion
3. Electronic equipment: $1.9 billion
4. Machinery: $1.3 billion
5. Medical, technical equipment: $1.2 billion
6. Plastics: $513.2 million
7. Base metal tools, cutlery: $273.3 million
8. Organic chemicals: $246.5 million
9. Other chemical goods: $189.5 million
10. Inorganic chemicals: $177.4 million
​

But part of the reason it is more difficult to find is that, here in the US, is approximately 30% of Israeli exports ≈ $10 billion in raw materials, military equipment, investment goods, rough diamonds, fuels, grain, and consumer goods.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[Humanity]

No one in their right mind is going to argue that the Israeli Government is without fault.

Hell they are...

Most of the zionuts here lie to ensure that, in their deranged minds, the Israeli government is "without fault"!

 

[montelatici]

"Following the decision of the graduate student union at New York University to approve a motion supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, Jewish groups have expressed concern over the growing strength of the initiative to delegitimize Israel."

Jewish groups slam NYU graduate student union’s vote to join boycott movement

 

[Hollie]

"Following the decision of the graduate student union at New York University to approve a motion supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, Jewish groups have expressed concern over the growing strength of the initiative to delegitimize Israel."

Jewish groups slam NYU graduate student union’s vote to join boycott movement

On the other hand:

BDS in South Africa – an abject failure

BDS in South Africa – an abject failure - Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) - SPME Website Scholars for Peace in the Middle East

Despite several years of lobbying by BDS to have Israeli products kept out of South Africa, and preventing government officials from visiting Israel, trade between the two countries is flourishing

 

[montelatici]

Yet, the South Africans put out documentaries like this.

"April 15, 2016

South Africa demonstrates that BDS is a valid method to counter occupation and oppression and can provide a peaceful means of resolution to the conflict.

Roadmap to Apartheid
The idea of apartheid and the concept and actions of BDS are fully linked because of the South African experience. The documentary Roadmap to Apartheid (2012) by Ana Nogueira and Eron Davidson highlights the parallels between what happened in South Africa and what is happening in Palestine. Beyond the parallels, the commentators from South Africa indicate that Israel is worse than their situation actually was, and—perhaps more revealing—is that the two countries worked together on military and security resources, up to and including nuclear weapons.

At the beginning of the movie and continuing throughout are powerful visual segments comparing actions in South Africa with near identical actions Palestine. The colonial nature of settlements, the expulsions of indigenous people, the occupation of lands, and the setup of separate areas for the indigenous—the actual apartheid—is well documented. The Boers in South Africa invoked their ‘god given rights’ to the land, and the architecture to enforce that involved passes and blockages to control the native population. Similarly in Palestine there are internal ID cards and over 600 manned checkpoints operating at the discretion of the military. This is informed by the S.A Council of Churches recognizing the continuous checking by military junta duties assigned for the soldiers.

Later in the documentary, the amount of land and its control mechanisms are emphasized. In S.A. 80 per cent of the population—the blacks—lived in bantustans that were theoretically “advanced to independence.” The whites in S.A. controlled over 87 per cent of the land (do the math: 13 per cent land for the 80 per cent population) and described the indigenous population as “foreign natives.” In parallel 90 per cent of Palestinian land is reserved for Jews only with the descriptor applied to the indigenous Arabs as “present absentees.” Both terms are self-contradictory and purely racist in functional terms. The whole idea, as expressed by Ali Abunimah, is to create an “artificial majority.”

A Review of the Documentary Film 'Roadmap to Apartheid' | Foreign Policy Journal

 

[Hollie]

Yet, the South Africans put out documentaries like this.

"April 15, 2016

South Africa demonstrates that BDS is a valid method to counter occupation and oppression and can provide a peaceful means of resolution to the conflict.

Roadmap to Apartheid
The idea of apartheid and the concept and actions of BDS are fully linked because of the South African experience. The documentary Roadmap to Apartheid (2012) by Ana Nogueira and Eron Davidson highlights the parallels between what happened in South Africa and what is happening in Palestine. Beyond the parallels, the commentators from South Africa indicate that Israel is worse than their situation actually was, and—perhaps more revealing—is that the two countries worked together on military and security resources, up to and including nuclear weapons.

At the beginning of the movie and continuing throughout are powerful visual segments comparing actions in South Africa with near identical actions Palestine. The colonial nature of settlements, the expulsions of indigenous people, the occupation of lands, and the setup of separate areas for the indigenous—the actual apartheid—is well documented. The Boers in South Africa invoked their ‘god given rights’ to the land, and the architecture to enforce that involved passes and blockages to control the native population. Similarly in Palestine there are internal ID cards and over 600 manned checkpoints operating at the discretion of the military. This is informed by the S.A Council of Churches recognizing the continuous checking by military junta duties assigned for the soldiers.

Later in the documentary, the amount of land and its control mechanisms are emphasized. In S.A. 80 per cent of the population—the blacks—lived in bantustans that were theoretically “advanced to independence.” The whites in S.A. controlled over 87 per cent of the land (do the math: 13 per cent land for the 80 per cent population) and described the indigenous population as “foreign natives.” In parallel 90 per cent of Palestinian land is reserved for Jews only with the descriptor applied to the indigenous Arabs as “present absentees.” Both terms are self-contradictory and purely racist in functional terms. The whole idea, as expressed by Ali Abunimah, is to create an “artificial majority.”

A Review of the Documentary Film 'Roadmap to Apartheid' | Foreign Policy Journal

Yet, that really has nothing to do with BDS'ing. It's just more of your whining.

 

[Hollie]

And then there's this:

BDS SA targets Woolworths, Israel, makings of a misdirected campaign.

SABC News - BDS SA targets Woolworths, Israel, makings of a misdirected campaign:Wednesday 30 September 2015

For more than a year Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) – South Africa, the local chapter of a global movement pushing for boycotts against the State of Israel, has been conducting a very public boycott campaign against Woolworths with the aim of pressurising the company into no longer stocking Israeli-sourced products.

The organisation’s latest, much-hyped publicity stunt was staging a demonstration against US singer Pharrell Williams when he performed in Cape Town last Monday. Williams entered into a partnership with Woolworths to perform in South Africa, and fallen afoul of BDS when he declined to cancel his engagement until Woolworths cut its ties with “apartheid Israel.”

In the weeks leading up to the event, the media was replete with reports on the upcoming confrontation, with added interest being supplied by a failed attempt by the City of Cape Town to obtain a court order limiting the protest to a mere 150 participants.

Ultimately, as it turned out, the court application was unnecessary, since the actual demonstration turned out to be the dampest of squibs. Comprehensive video footage taken of the protest, indicates that a mere 800 protestors turned up in the end, despite the availability of free transport and the explicit backing of, amongst others, the South African Community Party and Congress of South African Trade Unions, and a whole host of other organisations who are supposedly part of the “national coalition for Palestine.”



BDS'ing. An abject waste of time.

 

[montelatici]

Want BDS?

This is just in the U.S. and just in April of this year. BDS is moving forward just like the South Africa sanctions with universities being the catalysts for wider sanctions.

UMass graduate union votes to support boycott, divestment movement against Israel

UMass graduate union votes to support boycott, divestment movement against Israel


Two important developments in the campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel over human rights violations. Last night the City University of New York (CUNY) Doctoral Students Council overwhelmingly endorsed academic boycott of Israel as a blow against “settler colonialism and structural racism.” And two days ago the University of Chicago student government voted, also overwhelmingly, that the university should divest itself from ten companies that profit from “apartheid” in military-occupied Palestine.

- See more at: BDS takes two big strides, at CUNY and U of Chicago

 

[Hollie]

BDS Suffers Dual Defeats as Anti-Israel Resolutions Fail at CA Community College, Bowdoin College

BDS Suffers Dual Defeats as Anti-Israel Resolutions Fail at CA Community College, Bowdoin College


BDS suffered two defeats this week in US educational institutions. PHOTO: Wikipedia.

The anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement suffered two resounding blows this week, in college campuses across the U.S.

Bowdoin College in Maine defeated on Wednesday a student-wide referendum, sponsored by the institution’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which called for a complete academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

 

[montelatici]

BDS Suffers Dual Defeats as Anti-Israel Resolutions Fail at CA Community College, Bowdoin College

BDS Suffers Dual Defeats as Anti-Israel Resolutions Fail at CA Community College, Bowdoin College


BDS suffered two defeats this week in US educational institutions. PHOTO: Wikipedia.

The anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement suffered two resounding blows this week, in college campuses across the U.S.

Bowdoin College in Maine defeated on Wednesday a student-wide referendum, sponsored by the institution’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which called for a complete academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

That's from a year ago.

How about another one from April of this year?

After BDS pressure, Brazilian province cancels cooperation agreement with Israel’s Mekorot

After BDS pressure, Brazilian province cancels cooperation agreement with Israel’s Mekorot – Day's World

 

[Hollie]

BDS Suffers Dual Defeats as Anti-Israel Resolutions Fail at CA Community College, Bowdoin College

BDS Suffers Dual Defeats as Anti-Israel Resolutions Fail at CA Community College, Bowdoin College


BDS suffered two defeats this week in US educational institutions. PHOTO: Wikipedia.

The anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement suffered two resounding blows this week, in college campuses across the U.S.

Bowdoin College in Maine defeated on Wednesday a student-wide referendum, sponsored by the institution’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which called for a complete academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

That's from a year ago.

How about another one from April of this year?

After BDS pressure, Brazilian province cancels cooperation agreement with Israel’s Mekorot

After BDS pressure, Brazilian province cancels cooperation agreement with Israel’s Mekorot – Day's World

How about an encapsulation of the BDS'ing waste of time for you insensate Jew haters?

BDS Cookbook » Victories against BDS: The College Campus

Victories against BDS: The College Campus

The delegitimization movement has to date had no impact on Israeli policy toward the Palestinians. Like the Arab League’s economic boycott, which began before the establishment of Israel, and remains in force today, BDS initiatives will not force Israel to disappear or to capitulate to demands that compromise its security.

BDS advocates, nevertheless, are determined to impose costs on Israel and its supporters by engaging in a global campaign of harassment. Like the shoe bomber who failed to blow up an airplane, but forced the world to take off its shoes at airport security checkpoints, BDS supporters force the expenditure of resources to prevent them from succeeding.

Even when they fail, BDS advocates often claim victory in the hope that the perception of winning will create momentum for their cause. Institutions that allow BDS initiatives to be launched on campus should be aware that BDS supporters may report success even when there is none, to the detriment of the university’s reputation.

 

[montelatici]

I see that when you are presented with facts from neutral sources you begin cutting and pasting from Hasbara sites. Typical.

 

[Hollie]

I see that when you are presented with facts from neutral sources you begin cutting and pasting from Hasbara sites. Typical.

I see that your feverish cutting and pasting when refuted with facts from sourced data leaves you whining and weeping. A pattern of behavior.

 

[montelatici]

You are just posting Hasabra nonsense. It refutes nothing. Keep clown dancing.

 

[Hollie]

You are just posting Hasabra nonsense. It refutes nothing. Keep clown dancing.

I understand you're angry and frustrated when facts confront your taqiyya and falsehoods.

Consider my honesty and integrity as a beat-down to your taqiyya and falsehoods. Facts will do that when faced with taqiyya.

 

[montelatici]

Not angry at all, just being entertained by your clown dancing and declarations of victory.

You don't quite understand that you are being made a fool of.

 

[Hollie]

Not angry at all, just being entertained by your clown dancing and declarations of victory.

You don't quite understand that you are being made a fool of.

Oh, yes. You're enraged. Your attempts at propping up your silly BDS'ers has been a failure. The "movement" has had so many failures, it's become another just another failed vehicle (remember the islamo-flotillas?), for you really self-hating types that was hoped to be used by the Jew hating crowd to promote their (and your), ineptitudes and incompetence.

 

[montelatici]

Not angry at all, just being entertained by your clown dancing and declarations of victory.

You don't quite understand that you are being made a fool of.

Oh, yes. You're enraged. Your attempts at propping up your silly BDS'ers has been a failure. The "movement" has had so many failures, it's become another just another failed vehicle (remember the islamo-flotillas?), for you really self-hating types that was hoped to be used by the Jew hating crowd to promote their (and your), ineptitudes and incompetence.

The BDS movement is so much of a failure that the Zionist lobbies are trying to outlaw it all over the world. You never think about the logical inconsistencies of all your positions.

 

[Hollie]

Not angry at all, just being entertained by your clown dancing and declarations of victory.

You don't quite understand that you are being made a fool of.

Oh, yes. You're enraged. Your attempts at propping up your silly BDS'ers has been a failure. The "movement" has had so many failures, it's become another just another failed vehicle (remember the islamo-flotillas?), for you really self-hating types that was hoped to be used by the Jew hating crowd to promote their (and your), ineptitudes and incompetence.

The BDS movement is so much of a failure that the Zionist lobbies are trying to outlaw it all over the world. You never think about the logical inconsistencies of all your positions.

You BDS groupies spend inordinate amounts of time with your attempts at vilifying Jews. Your Islamist lobbies have an obvious agenda to press but your failures make you appear quite helpless and desperate.

How about another flotilla disaster? That silly publicity stunt was no more effective than all your BDS'ing failures.

But then, you're used to failure.