Boycott Israel

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Amid a slew of anti-Israel resolutions at the 2018 General Convention of the Episcopal Church this week, a proposal to divest from Israel’s “occupation” of the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem was roundly rejected by the church’s governing House of Bishops.

Wednesday’s vote at the Convention in Austin, Tx., put “to rest for at least another three years one of the church’s most divisive issues,” the Episcopal News Service (ENS) reported.

The proposal to divest from Israel was initially adopted by a hefty 74 percent vote in the church’s House of Deputies – in effect, a lower chamber whose resolutions are then considered by the House of Bishops. Among the 300 Episcopal bishops, however, the response was far less enthused, with 62 percent of members rejecting the divestment call.

Significantly, some pro-Palestinian bishops admitted to having second thoughts about divestment as a strategy.

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Amid Condemnation of Israel at Triannual Convention, Episcopal Church Rejects Divestment Resolution

 

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Unprecedented: Argentina freezes Hezbollah assets

 

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Wait, what?! He says BDS is working and his "proof" is that 20% of Israeli companies with operations in the West Bank withdrew those operations and that this is somehow going to cripple the Israeli economy?

Let's take the most obvious one. Sodastream sells 3 million units a year. Its profits have quadrupled since the relocation. How is that affecting the Israeli economy again? Well, 600 Palestinians lost their jobs. (Though some have regained them through ceaseless efforts of Sodastream management).

Can someone explain to me how this is supposed to work?

 

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Jews and the dream of indigenous peoples everywhere.

The Iroquois team is followed by many native Canadians and we take great pride in their accomplishments. The history of the Iroquois is a long and proud one, with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy being one of the few native organizations that has successfully implemented aspects of sovereignty.

Israel as a country has respected this sovereignty by recognizing the passports of the Iroquois Confederacy, as the team landed in the country to play its first game against Team USA on Thursday. “Israel has already stated they will recognize those players who have Haudenosaunee passports. Thus the team says they will be asserting their independence and sovereignty as indigenous people,” Indian Country Today reported.

Considering that the team has not participated in tournaments in countries that refuse to recognize their passports, it is more than cynical to ask players to abstain from these championships – which happen only every four years – while they take place in Israel, a country that stands out for its proven respect for the Iroquois.

The Jews managed to achieve the dream of indigenous peoples everywhere – they went home to govern themselves on their ancestral lands.


Well done Israel and Canada and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. This is what mutual recognition and respect for indigenous peoples looks like.

 

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MK Shelly Yachimovich (Zionist Union), said from the podium: “This law I against Breaking the Silence law and other leftwing organizations. The ethos of Breaking the Silence does not fit my worldview, and yet it does not frighten me, nor does it bother me to hear other positions. What are you afraid of? The nationalism law (Basic Law proposal: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People – DI) that you promote causes damage to Israel in the world, much more so than the damage you say is caused by representatives of Breaking the Silence. You’re cowards!”

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Knesset Passes Law Barring ‘Breaking the Silence’ from Schools

 

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I'm still waiting for MPs of Arab parties to join BDS and boycott the Knesset.

 

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The Iroquois Nation, as another indigenous people, is a friend of the heart. In the larger picture, however, Israel is an integral part of the world’s security system across the continents, from Europe to Asia to North America. In the Pacific Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, it has partnered with countries alphabetized from Australia to Vietnam in exercises on land, at sea or in the air. Not a single country pulled out of a single exercise because of the presence of the Israel Defense Forces.

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How the World Really Views Israel – Jewish Policy Center

 

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Clearly, the anti-Israel crowd wants to spread their hate among those who are least equipped to understand what is happening to them.
It is not necessarily a centralized movement but it is very deliberate. For example, teachers in Washington State can borrow the "Palestine Teaching Trunk"where they can give students two- to six-week anti-Israel lessons complete with workbooks, maps, novels and DVDs. Many teachers seem to have already used it.

The Middle East Children's Alliance similarly has a "Teach Palestine" initiative to provide free anti-Israel propaganda to children.

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The program to target children with anti-Israel propaganda ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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How Students for Justice in Palestine Undermines Tolerance and Peace

 

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How Students for Justice in Palestine Undermines Tolerance and Peace

 

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How Students for Justice in Palestine Undermines Tolerance and Peace

Samah Sabawi 'Normalize This!'

 

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Israel’s Zim strikes alliance with global shipping giants to share routes

 

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Israel’s Evogene to develop insect-resistant cotton with Brazilian seed-grower

 

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Those who perform the role of cheerleaders for a movement that aims at denying Jewish rights and destroying Israel cannot hide behind a false humanitarian banner or even sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians. Nor is the fact that some of those who advocate for this cause are themselves Jewish mitigate their culpability. In theory as well as in practice, anti-Zionism and its expression in the form of the BDS movement is indistinguishable from anti-Semitism, and aids and abets acts of violence against Jews.

Jewish Voice for Peace isn’t the only group associated with anti-Semitism that is seeking to redefine it so as to get themselves off the hook. The same thing is happening in Britain, where a Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn not only flirts with hatred of Israel and anti-Semitism, but also has had the chutzpah to try and promote a definition of the term that will make them look less appalling.

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Can pro-BDS anti-Semites redefine anti-Semitism?

 

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Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh on Tuesday signed in the Hague a strategic cooperation agreement between Israel Police and Europol, the European Union’s criminal intelligence agency, which operates as an intelligence coordination organization between European police agencies and other law enforcement agencies around the world.

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First Foreign Working Arrangement Europol Signs Is with Israel Police

 

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Don McLean performs live at the Ra'anana Ampiteater, June 16, 2018.. (photo credit: YOSSI VAKNIN)


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McLean goes back to the basics

 

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Israel takes silver medal in wheelchair tennis world team cup

 

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About 7,000 of the 10,000 workers in Barkan are Palestinian.

In the meantime, few other products manufactured in Judea and Samaria are actually exported to Ireland, so the practical effect of a boycott would be negligible, barely affecting Israelis but putting Palestinians at risk of losing their jobs.

“Ireland is certainly not a major market for Israel or for companies manufacturing in the [Judea and Samaria],” Dan Catarivas of the Manufacturers’ Association, told the Irish Times. “Our policy is not to mix business and politics. It’s a pity that Ireland is mixing the two.”

Moshe Lavran, who owns three factories in Barkan making plastics, electronics and aluminum products, said the move was essentially ridiculous.

“We can manage happily without Ireland. Every time the Irish use their mobile phones or computers they are using Israeli technology, so let’s see them boycotting anything Israeli,” he said.

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Irish Boycott on Israeli Goods Would Actually Harm Palestinians

 

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7-year-old Israeli Wins European Chess Championship