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Are You suggesting an Israeli id changes one's skin color,
or just projecting You own racism on Israel?
Don't tell me You need help with the answer.
Boycott Israel
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or just projecting You own racism on Israel?
Don't tell me You need help with the answer.
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Except that this time this individual was wrong in his preachy and condescending attack on the Jewish state. As several users taught the perpetual Israel hater, Beresheet was the first moon probe – in the world – that was created entirely as a private initiative, without one penny in government assistance. It cost $100 million and all of it came from private funds, unlike Peace Now contributions that come from many European governments.
As to the part about “no scientific contribution” – Beresheet was the lightest moon probe ever – 585 kg. Including the engines and the fuel; it was the smallest moon probe ever – 1.53 by a bit more than 2 meters, and it was the fastest built moon probe on record.
(full article online)
Former Peace Now Leader Condemns Israeli Occupation of the Moon
As to the part about “no scientific contribution” – Beresheet was the lightest moon probe ever – 585 kg. Including the engines and the fuel; it was the smallest moon probe ever – 1.53 by a bit more than 2 meters, and it was the fastest built moon probe on record.
(full article online)
Former Peace Now Leader Condemns Israeli Occupation of the Moon
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Turing Award winner Judea Pearl has renounced his status as a distinguished alumnus of New York University, following the school’s decision to award its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter — which orchestrated an ongoing boycott of Zionist student clubs — for “extraordinary and positive impact on the University community.”
Pearl, who graduated with a doctoral degree from NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering in 1965, was granted a Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Polytechnic Alumni Association during a campus lecture in 2013 and is currently a chancellor’s professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also leads a foundation named after his late son, journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by Islamic terrorists in 2002 while on assignment in Pakistan.
“In the past five years, SJP has resorted to intimidation tactics that have made me, my colleagues and my students unwelcome and unsafe on our own campus,” Pearl wrote in a letter to NYU President Andrew Hamilton. “The decision to confer an award on SJP, renders other NYU awards empty of content, and suspect of reckless selection process.”
Pearl stated that his efforts to engage with university officials over these concerns “have been met with platitudes about ‘free speech’ despite the fact that the US State Department now includes, in its definition of discrimination, intimidation based on race, religion and ethnicity.”
(full article online)
Judea Pearl Renounces NYU Distinguished Alumnus Status as School Prepares to Award Students for Justice in Palestine
Pearl, who graduated with a doctoral degree from NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering in 1965, was granted a Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Polytechnic Alumni Association during a campus lecture in 2013 and is currently a chancellor’s professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also leads a foundation named after his late son, journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by Islamic terrorists in 2002 while on assignment in Pakistan.
“In the past five years, SJP has resorted to intimidation tactics that have made me, my colleagues and my students unwelcome and unsafe on our own campus,” Pearl wrote in a letter to NYU President Andrew Hamilton. “The decision to confer an award on SJP, renders other NYU awards empty of content, and suspect of reckless selection process.”
Pearl stated that his efforts to engage with university officials over these concerns “have been met with platitudes about ‘free speech’ despite the fact that the US State Department now includes, in its definition of discrimination, intimidation based on race, religion and ethnicity.”
(full article online)
Judea Pearl Renounces NYU Distinguished Alumnus Status as School Prepares to Award Students for Justice in Palestine
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The EU Parliament Plenary session on US recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory and the possible annexation of the West Bank settlements.
Some right wing MEPs supported Israeli control over the Golan, although most did not. You can watch the debate here:
The statement from High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini was predictably against Israel - and wrong on facts. She referred to the 1949 armistice lines between Israel and Transjordan as "pre-1967 borders," saying, "The EU will recognize changes to the pre-1967 borders only if and when agreed by the parties, including with regard to Jerusalem."
But they were never borders and Palestinians were never officially presumed to own the land on the other side. The entire premise of the Oslo process was that all the land east of the line was disputed, which is why it was subject to negotiation to begin with. It wasn't a border dispute where cartographers could determine where an earlier boundary was, it was a negotiation over who gets what land to create border between the State of Israel and a Palestinian Arab entity, which may or may not have ended up as a state.
(full article online)
EU High Representative/VP Federica Mogherini lies about the Green Line, and no one calls her on it ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
Some right wing MEPs supported Israeli control over the Golan, although most did not. You can watch the debate here:
The statement from High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini was predictably against Israel - and wrong on facts. She referred to the 1949 armistice lines between Israel and Transjordan as "pre-1967 borders," saying, "The EU will recognize changes to the pre-1967 borders only if and when agreed by the parties, including with regard to Jerusalem."
But they were never borders and Palestinians were never officially presumed to own the land on the other side. The entire premise of the Oslo process was that all the land east of the line was disputed, which is why it was subject to negotiation to begin with. It wasn't a border dispute where cartographers could determine where an earlier boundary was, it was a negotiation over who gets what land to create border between the State of Israel and a Palestinian Arab entity, which may or may not have ended up as a state.
(full article online)
EU High Representative/VP Federica Mogherini lies about the Green Line, and no one calls her on it ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
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Ruba Salih: “Well, the Palestinians launched the BDS”
Illan Pappe: “Yes, not really but yes. For historical record, yes”
Ruba Salih: “It’s important”
Illan Pappe: “It’s not true but it’s important”The issue is who started the BDS movement: the Palestinian Arabs or someone else?
In an article in 2010 for The Guardian's Comment is Free, Barghouti claims the BDS movement is 5 years old, tracing its start to the "Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS" on July 9, 2005 -- a declaration that Barghouti was a part of.
Not so fast.
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If Barghouti says that unarmed Israeli civilians are legitimate targets, it is no wonder how violent BDS supporters are on college campuses.
Similarly, the Canary Mission profile on Omar Barghouti features a video where Barghouti endorses "armed resistance." He even goes so far as to falsely claim that such terror attacks are a legal right -- when in fact armed struggle is not supported by international law.
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During a Q& at a session at Loyola Law School, Barghouti responded:
Oppressed people don’t have a choice of where they go to school.The problem, of course, is that the issue is with Barghouti himself, not other Palestinian Arabs. He earned a masters in electrical engineering from Columbia University while living in the US for 11 years - where he travels on his speaking tours. Barghouti does have choices.
Even if he cannot afford to go back to Columbia or elsewhere outside of Israel, there are a number of universities in both the West Bank and Gaza.
Wikipedia has a list -- of both colleges and universities, in the "West Bank" and Gaza.
(full article online)
Three Myths of Omar Barghouti and BDS (@DaledAmos) ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
Illan Pappe: “Yes, not really but yes. For historical record, yes”
Ruba Salih: “It’s important”
Illan Pappe: “It’s not true but it’s important”The issue is who started the BDS movement: the Palestinian Arabs or someone else?
In an article in 2010 for The Guardian's Comment is Free, Barghouti claims the BDS movement is 5 years old, tracing its start to the "Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS" on July 9, 2005 -- a declaration that Barghouti was a part of.
Not so fast.
----------
If Barghouti says that unarmed Israeli civilians are legitimate targets, it is no wonder how violent BDS supporters are on college campuses.
Similarly, the Canary Mission profile on Omar Barghouti features a video where Barghouti endorses "armed resistance." He even goes so far as to falsely claim that such terror attacks are a legal right -- when in fact armed struggle is not supported by international law.
------------
During a Q& at a session at Loyola Law School, Barghouti responded:
Oppressed people don’t have a choice of where they go to school.The problem, of course, is that the issue is with Barghouti himself, not other Palestinian Arabs. He earned a masters in electrical engineering from Columbia University while living in the US for 11 years - where he travels on his speaking tours. Barghouti does have choices.
Even if he cannot afford to go back to Columbia or elsewhere outside of Israel, there are a number of universities in both the West Bank and Gaza.
Wikipedia has a list -- of both colleges and universities, in the "West Bank" and Gaza.
(full article online)
Three Myths of Omar Barghouti and BDS (@DaledAmos) ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
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RE: Boycott Israel
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I think there is something fundamentally wrong with this poster. Either poor data, manipulated data, of a deliberate effort of misinformation dissemination.
(COMMENT)
I know that the undefined "Palestine" needs no freedom; they already have it. All they have to do is demonstrate that they are mature enough to responsibly use it in peace. This is part and parcel of the need to "stand alone."
The sign gives the general impression that Nearly half of America support sanctionagainst Israel. I submit that the trend is not towards (BDS) but may be going the other way.
I am wondering what the intent was in this subliminal presentation?
Most Respectfully,
R
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
I think there is something fundamentally wrong with this poster. Either poor data, manipulated data, of a deliberate effort of misinformation dissemination.
I know that the undefined "Palestine" needs no freedom; they already have it. All they have to do is demonstrate that they are mature enough to responsibly use it in peace. This is part and parcel of the need to "stand alone."
The sign gives the general impression that Nearly half of America support sanctionagainst Israel. I submit that the trend is not towards (BDS) but may be going the other way.
I am wondering what the intent was in this subliminal presentation?
Most Respectfully,
R
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[ Always cowardly, like a stab in the back......and always and ONLY against Israel.......and Jews...... Christian and Muslim learned hatred of Jews at its best. Exactly WHEN are Universities going to stop allowing these endless distractions to education from happening ? ]
The bill — backed by groups including Students for Justice in Palestine under the auspices of the Divest UMD campaign — “calls upon the UMCP administration to divest from companies engaged in human rights violations in Palestine.”
Supporters include the UMD Pride Alliance, UMD Young Democratic Socialists of America, and African Student Association, among others.
“Zionism is terrorism,” the UMD Muslim Alliance for Social Change wrote in a solidarity statement shared by UMD Divest, in reference to a movement that champions the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in the Levant.
“This is a battle against Zionism, a movement that does not define our Jewish brothers and sisters, but instead characterizes those who lack a sense of humanity and withhold an abnormal level of nationalism for Israel,” the statement continued. [ This sentence is a laugh ]
Opponents of the campaign — which last failed to gain SGA endorsement in 2017 — argue that it delegitimizes, demonizes, and applies a double standard to Israel.
A petition promoted by the Terps United Against BDS coalition noted that “BDS campaigns can create a hostile campus atmosphere that singles out Jewish and pro-Israel students, and subjects them to intimidation and bullying.”
“We know that BDS fosters an environment that can lead to anti-Semitism that immediately stifles conversation among campus stakeholders,” the petition read.
(full article online)
Jewish Group at University of Maryland Laments ‘Insensitive’ Plan for BDS Vote on Passover
The bill — backed by groups including Students for Justice in Palestine under the auspices of the Divest UMD campaign — “calls upon the UMCP administration to divest from companies engaged in human rights violations in Palestine.”
Supporters include the UMD Pride Alliance, UMD Young Democratic Socialists of America, and African Student Association, among others.
“Zionism is terrorism,” the UMD Muslim Alliance for Social Change wrote in a solidarity statement shared by UMD Divest, in reference to a movement that champions the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in the Levant.
“This is a battle against Zionism, a movement that does not define our Jewish brothers and sisters, but instead characterizes those who lack a sense of humanity and withhold an abnormal level of nationalism for Israel,” the statement continued. [ This sentence is a laugh ]
Opponents of the campaign — which last failed to gain SGA endorsement in 2017 — argue that it delegitimizes, demonizes, and applies a double standard to Israel.
A petition promoted by the Terps United Against BDS coalition noted that “BDS campaigns can create a hostile campus atmosphere that singles out Jewish and pro-Israel students, and subjects them to intimidation and bullying.”
“We know that BDS fosters an environment that can lead to anti-Semitism that immediately stifles conversation among campus stakeholders,” the petition read.
(full article online)
Jewish Group at University of Maryland Laments ‘Insensitive’ Plan for BDS Vote on Passover
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The controversy has also prompted Rep. George Holding (R-N.C.) to call on the US Department of Education — which allotted a federal grant worth $235,000 to the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, a conference sponsor — to launch an investigation.
In a Monday letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Holding wrote that while many community members had expressed reservations about the conference to sponsors, “these concerns were ignored, with no mainstream speakers or panelists included in the three-day conference.”
“Honest academic debate featuring diverse perspectives and a wide-range of views is critical in a democratic society and a central tenet of America’s educational system,” Holding wrote. “However, it is irresponsible, immoral and unproductive for taxpayer dollars to fund overtly biased advocacy camouflaged as academic discourse.”
UNC Global said that it “will work directly with the US Department of Education, if contacted, to address any questions about this matter.”
Aside from objections to Nafar’s performance, the conference was further criticized for failing to include a diversity of viewpoints, with NC Hillel saying last month that the event “featured speakers who demonized Israel for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and included too few perspectives from scholars who could have provided balanced context and multiple viewpoints on this challenging subject.”
“[C]onference speakers largely failed to address the role that Hamas, Gaza’s own government, plays in perpetuating this crisis by committing acts of terror and diverting needed resources from its people,” NC Hillel continued. “Conference organizers selected largely like-minded speakers, including many who were on record as favoring boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel.”
Amy Rosenthal, a former faculty member at Duke University, likewise described the program as presenting “a one-sided perspective on Gaza.”
“There was no mention of Gazan terrorism and the “pay to slay” policy of paying salaries to terrorists (and the families of terrorists) who kill innocent Jews, Americans, and others,” she wrote. “There was no mention of the riots to break through Israel’s border, or the terror tunnels built by Hamas. And there was certainly no mention of the thousands of rockets launched from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians.”
(full article online)
Sponsors Demand Refund After Antisemitic Rap at UNC Gaza Conference, While Lawmaker Calls for Federal Probe
In a Monday letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Holding wrote that while many community members had expressed reservations about the conference to sponsors, “these concerns were ignored, with no mainstream speakers or panelists included in the three-day conference.”
“Honest academic debate featuring diverse perspectives and a wide-range of views is critical in a democratic society and a central tenet of America’s educational system,” Holding wrote. “However, it is irresponsible, immoral and unproductive for taxpayer dollars to fund overtly biased advocacy camouflaged as academic discourse.”
UNC Global said that it “will work directly with the US Department of Education, if contacted, to address any questions about this matter.”
Aside from objections to Nafar’s performance, the conference was further criticized for failing to include a diversity of viewpoints, with NC Hillel saying last month that the event “featured speakers who demonized Israel for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and included too few perspectives from scholars who could have provided balanced context and multiple viewpoints on this challenging subject.”
“[C]onference speakers largely failed to address the role that Hamas, Gaza’s own government, plays in perpetuating this crisis by committing acts of terror and diverting needed resources from its people,” NC Hillel continued. “Conference organizers selected largely like-minded speakers, including many who were on record as favoring boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel.”
Amy Rosenthal, a former faculty member at Duke University, likewise described the program as presenting “a one-sided perspective on Gaza.”
“There was no mention of Gazan terrorism and the “pay to slay” policy of paying salaries to terrorists (and the families of terrorists) who kill innocent Jews, Americans, and others,” she wrote. “There was no mention of the riots to break through Israel’s border, or the terror tunnels built by Hamas. And there was certainly no mention of the thousands of rockets launched from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians.”
(full article online)
Sponsors Demand Refund After Antisemitic Rap at UNC Gaza Conference, While Lawmaker Calls for Federal Probe
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The torch of tourism ignites peace. The greater Israel’s tourism triumph, the more irresistible is the concept of peace with its neighbors because all could gain from working together.
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement [BDS] has taken particular aim at Israel’s tourism industry. Tourism accounts for about 11 percent of global GDP and 350 million jobs worldwide—more than ten percent of employment on the planet. In Israel, tourism is more than just sun, seashore, and spirituality; it infused Israel’s economy with $6 billion in 2018. Tourism is also the geopolitical inhalant that allows Israel to sustain its diplomatic and sovereign niche in the world.
For all its efforts to isolate Israel—including convincing Airbnb to remove Jewish listings in Judea and Samaria for a while—BDS has failed to even dent Israel’s triumphant tourism growth. In 2018, a record 4.1 million visitors streamed into Israel from all over the world. Massive tourist influxes are now seen from the Chinese and Indian travel markets as well as America’s Christian community.
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Israel’s Tourism Triumph - luxury hotels beckon
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement [BDS] has taken particular aim at Israel’s tourism industry. Tourism accounts for about 11 percent of global GDP and 350 million jobs worldwide—more than ten percent of employment on the planet. In Israel, tourism is more than just sun, seashore, and spirituality; it infused Israel’s economy with $6 billion in 2018. Tourism is also the geopolitical inhalant that allows Israel to sustain its diplomatic and sovereign niche in the world.
For all its efforts to isolate Israel—including convincing Airbnb to remove Jewish listings in Judea and Samaria for a while—BDS has failed to even dent Israel’s triumphant tourism growth. In 2018, a record 4.1 million visitors streamed into Israel from all over the world. Massive tourist influxes are now seen from the Chinese and Indian travel markets as well as America’s Christian community.
(full article online)
Israel’s Tourism Triumph - luxury hotels beckon
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It should be obvious to anyone that while the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement portrays itself as ‘merely’ antisemitic, it is in actuality a movement frequently fueled by antisemitic intent and often supported by antisemitic individuals.
Although some may argue that anti-Zionism is not necessarily antisemitism, the reality is that the two often go hand-in-hand.
A sensible writer would at least consider the links between BDS and anti-semitism, but alas Michelle Goldberg, a columnist at The New York Times, totally dismisses the serious charges against numerous BDS leaders and activists.
Goldberg’s most recent NYT column, “Anti-Zionists Deserve Free Speech,” explores the downsides of barring a ‘critic of Israel’ from America, and flippantly claims that BDS leaders seek to distance themselves from anti-semitism.
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New York Times Columnist: BDS Distances Itself from Antisemitism | HonestReporting
Although some may argue that anti-Zionism is not necessarily antisemitism, the reality is that the two often go hand-in-hand.
A sensible writer would at least consider the links between BDS and anti-semitism, but alas Michelle Goldberg, a columnist at The New York Times, totally dismisses the serious charges against numerous BDS leaders and activists.
Goldberg’s most recent NYT column, “Anti-Zionists Deserve Free Speech,” explores the downsides of barring a ‘critic of Israel’ from America, and flippantly claims that BDS leaders seek to distance themselves from anti-semitism.
(full article online)
New York Times Columnist: BDS Distances Itself from Antisemitism | HonestReporting
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Hamas kicked out Fatah, the losers of the elections, because they tried to stay in power by military force.
OK? Why is there a problem?
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