The BDS movement taken to it's logical conclusion.

[Roudy]

Jew hating scum like the Israeli Minister of Finance. LOL

"Yair Lapid, Israel’s finance minister, is approaching the same “tipping point” where South Africa found itself in opposition to the rest of the world in the dying days of apartheid. “Let’s not kid ourselves,” he told a conference of security boffins recently in Tel Aviv. “The world listens to us less and less.”


http://www.economist.com/news/middl...-sound-rattled-campaign-isolate-their-country

So, we can agree you purposely failed to attach a link because the article later refuted your screeching?

From the article, (and note the bold text for dramatic affect):

Israel’s position as a hotbed of hi-tech start-ups is due in part to decades of circumventing Arab boycotts. A French arms ban in the 1960s sparked the development of its weapons industry, helping to catapult Israel into fourth place in the world’s league of arms exporters. And if the West turns its back on Israel, there is, they say, the east. Relations with India have warmed of late, and those with China are getting closer.

Yup, his fallback in light of all these dramatic BDS failures is a hawkish Israeli finance minister trying to rile up the troops both domestically and internationally to go after the BDS more aggressively. Since Israel has been ignoring BDS he has to paint a picture as though BDS is actually doing something.

Meanwhile, the wankers struggle to find a dent that BDS has made in the progress of the Israeli economy or trade relations.

 

[Roudy]

The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing

As it happens, there is a web page that exhaustively tracks BDS achievements. It contains such triumphal entries as “Andreas Oberg, Swedish guitarist, cancels gig in Tel Aviv, heeding BDS activists’ appeals,” and “Ten talented young harpists bow out of the International Harp Contest.” But for the most part, the entries consist of gestures similar to the York student-federation vote, which is to say: rhetorical attacks from activist groups, unions and academic organizations with no power to influence trade policy.
From the slogans emitted by BDS champions (including, at times, Canada’s own Naomi Klein), one would think that BDS was on the cusp of bringing Israel to its knees. Yet since 2004 — the period corresponding to the lifespan of the BDS movement — Israel’s economy generally has been booming, especially in the areas of telecommunications, computer technology, aviation, specialty medical equipment, military hardware and natural gas.

The BDS campaign is also morally hypocritical. Not all of Israel’s policies — especially in regard to settlement construction — are defensible. Yet in humanitarian terms, nothing Israel does to Palestinians comprises even so much as a rounding error on the horrors perpetrated by such nations as Syria, Iran and Sudan against their own citizens. The plight of Gazan religious and political dissenters — not to mention gays and women in the Hamas-run enclave — is especially notable, given that many of the same activists who champion BDS also have championed the Boat to Gaza movement and other efforts to equip and legitimize Hamas.
But eight years in, the movement has accomplished nothing. Indeed, less than nothing: For it is thanks to BDS, and similar gestures of anti-Israel antipathy (especially at the UN), that many Israelis — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — have become convinced that their country will always be the victim of a vicious moral double standard. If Mr. Netanyahu has struck a more standoffish, militant, uncompromising tone than his predecessors when dealing with the international community, it is largely because he has come to see the hatred of his country as irrational and unremitting.
- See more at: The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing | Foundation for Defense of Democracies

The BDSholes at the Bowel Discharge Syndrome (TM) are winning! Ha ha ha.

 

[montelatici]

The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing

As it happens, there is a web page that exhaustively tracks BDS achievements. It contains such triumphal entries as “Andreas Oberg, Swedish guitarist, cancels gig in Tel Aviv, heeding BDS activists’ appeals,” and “Ten talented young harpists bow out of the International Harp Contest.” But for the most part, the entries consist of gestures similar to the York student-federation vote, which is to say: rhetorical attacks from activist groups, unions and academic organizations with no power to influence trade policy.
From the slogans emitted by BDS champions (including, at times, Canada’s own Naomi Klein), one would think that BDS was on the cusp of bringing Israel to its knees. Yet since 2004 — the period corresponding to the lifespan of the BDS movement — Israel’s economy generally has been booming, especially in the areas of telecommunications, computer technology, aviation, specialty medical equipment, military hardware and natural gas.

The BDS campaign is also morally hypocritical. Not all of Israel’s policies — especially in regard to settlement construction — are defensible. Yet in humanitarian terms, nothing Israel does to Palestinians comprises even so much as a rounding error on the horrors perpetrated by such nations as Syria, Iran and Sudan against their own citizens. The plight of Gazan religious and political dissenters — not to mention gays and women in the Hamas-run enclave — is especially notable, given that many of the same activists who champion BDS also have championed the Boat to Gaza movement and other efforts to equip and legitimize Hamas.
But eight years in, the movement has accomplished nothing. Indeed, less than nothing: For it is thanks to BDS, and similar gestures of anti-Israel antipathy (especially at the UN), that many Israelis — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — have become convinced that their country will always be the victim of a vicious moral double standard. If Mr. Netanyahu has struck a more standoffish, militant, uncompromising tone than his predecessors when dealing with the international community, it is largely because he has come to see the hatred of his country as irrational and unremitting.
- See more at: The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing | Foundation for Defense of Democracies

The BDSholes at the Bowel Discharge Syndrome (TM) are winning! Ha ha ha.

Propaganda as usual. The BDS movement is progressing much faster than the similar movement against Apartheid South Africa.

THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015 04:59 PM EDT
What Israel fears with the successes of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
Amendments in the House and Senate target the BDS movement. It must be doing something right

Despite this, while in our Congress and statehouses we can see such efforts as testifying to the power of the Israel lobby, from outside these spaces we can see even more the tremendous effectiveness BDS actually has (why else center so much attention on it?). It is indisputably the single most identifiable and powerful alternative to conventional diplomacy, which has for decades proven to be utterly ineffective in addressing the issues of Israel’s long-standing violations of international law and human rights conventions and covenants. There is no doubt that with Netanyahu at the helm, any change will have to emanate from outside Israel, via an international consensus. And that is what Israel is afraid of when it sees the successes of BDS."

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[Hollie]

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/08/boycott-the-boycott/

Boycott the Israel boycott
The BDS movement is doing enormous harm to only one group — the Palestinians.


I don’t know who essentially is pushing the Palestinians towards this story of an economic boycott of Israel; to the best of my knowledge, the Palestinians aren’t the ones setting the economic boycott of Israel in motion on their own and the Palestinian Authority (PA) is trying to rest on its momentum and not to lead it. The BDS (Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment) movement is at the forefront leading the boycott, and as such it is hurting Palestinians a lot more than it is hurting Israel. To be sure, there are interested Palestinian parties, like Mustafa Barghouti, who ran from one dictatorial regime to become deputy under the auspices of the BDS movement and acts on its behalf to exacerbate and aggravate the boycott of Israel. To my mind, Barghouti can attain good results from his perspective with great ease in Norway, for example, but he would not even dare to enter refugee camps and suggest to the people living there that they launch a boycott against Israel.

Palestinian workers today are building homes in the settlements. They’re proud to build for Jews, and there’s no one to help find them alternative work.

Abu Mazen, head of the PA, hasn’t a clue about whom to target with this particular boycott. How can one impose a boycott on settlement products as long as one’s fellow citizens and nationals are the ones building the very same settlements?




Honestly, leave it to Arabs and Pal'istanian Arabs to always make the wrong decision and make themselves the forever fools.

Pal'istanian Mentality

 

[Roudy]

Can anybody list a single accomplishment made by BDS (other than predictions of the imminent doom and gloom of Israel) that has had a concrete effect on Israel's progress?

1- ?

 

[montelatici]

Can anybody list a single accomplishment made by BDS (other than predictions of the imminent doom and gloom of Israel) that has had a concrete effect on Israel's progress?

1- ?

Sanctions have a slow and steady impact on the target. The sanctions on South Africa and Rhodesia provide a guide as to how they work. It was an over two decade process for those countries. There is plenty of historical and contemporaneous information available. Google is your friend.

 

[Roudy]

So other than claiming that something will happen nothing concrete has.

In fact more the list of companies and nations that are rushing to do business in Israel keeps increasing rather than decreasing. And Israel's economy keep growing and getting stronger.

BDS is now banned from most US campuses and going backwards and will soon be dismantled.

 

[Hollie]

Can anybody list a single accomplishment made by BDS (other than predictions of the imminent doom and gloom of Israel) that has had a concrete effect on Israel's progress?

1- ?

Sanctions have a slow and steady impact on the target. The sanctions on South Africa and Rhodesia provide a guide as to how they work. It was an over two decade process for those countries. There is plenty of historical and contemporaneous information available. Google is your friend.

I know, right? You feel like shooting yourself.



Israel: Economy
Israel: Economy
Israel: Economy >> globalEDGE: Your source for Global Business Knowledge

It has the second-largest number of startup companies in the world (after the United States) and the largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies outside North America.

Top 3 Trade Partners: United States, China, and Belgium
Top 3 Exported Goods: Precious Stones & Metals, Precious Stones & Metals, and Electrical Machinery

High-Technology Products (Aviation, Communications, Computer-Aided Design and Manufactures, Medical Electronics, Fiber Optics); Wood and Paper Products; Potash and Phosphates

 

[Roudy]

But have patience, in a few years, there will be no BDS. They'll closed it down, change its name, and start up as yet another IslamoNazi funded organization dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state.

BDS itself originated from yet another closed down IslamoNazi supported organization. People don't realize that these clowns in charge that keep moving from one failed organization to another, steal most of the money that is donated.

 

[P F Tinmore]

So all this bluster is over nothing?

delegitimize israel - YouTube

 

[Roudy]

No, all the bluster has added up to less than nothing, and yet another failed attempt originated by antisemites..

The BDS Movement Origins Can Be Traced Back to Hitler

Sporadic outbreaks of anti-Jewish boycotts arising from simple animus can be traced back to medieval times. Boycott, as an identified and organized financial weapon, only appeared on the world stage in 1880, when Irish farm tenants from County Mayo came together to economically isolate their oppressive landlord, Charles Boycott. The anti-Boycott movement became an international cause célèbre, covered extensively by such media giants as The New York Times and The Times of London, both of which acknowledged that the successful campaign against landlord Charles Boycott had spawned a new noun and a verb. In the last years of the 19th Century, economic pressure tactics were broadly employed by anti-Semite groups across Europe, many now actually using the term boycott.

On April 1, 1933, when the Hitler regime formalized its pre-existing boycott Jewish-owned stores as German national policy, the Mufti and his followers saluted and then adopted the Nazi tactic of anti-Jewish boycott, both in name and spirit. Indeed, Hitler became a hero to the Arab community in Palestine and the wider Arab world. After Mohammad, “Hitler” and “Adolf” became the second most popular baby names.

After 1948, when Israel became an independent nation, the Arab Higher Committee and the Mufti transferred their anti-Jewish and anti-Israel boycott to the Arab League’s Central Boycott Office, headquartered in Damascus. This so-called “Arab Boycott” continued its global reach, even requiring American companies wishing to do business in the Mideast and North Africa to certify compliance.

 

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[Roudy]

Not interested in bullshit YouTube clip propaganda clips.

What again has The BDS achieved? 100 posts later and you guys still can't list a single thing that has caused a dent in the Isrseli economy.

Epic fail.

 

[Hollie]

 

[fanger]

Not interested in bullshit YouTube clip propaganda clips.

What again has The BDS achieved? 100 posts later and you guys still can't list a single thing that has caused a dent in the Isrseli economy.

Epic fail.

so why the whining of jews?

 

[Roudy]

Who's whining? Seems like it's the other side that's whining about not having anything solid to show for.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Who's whining? Seems like it's the other side that's whining about not having anything solid to show for.

If it is nothing, why are so many people putting a lot of money and effort into combating it?

 

[montelatici]

Who's whining? Seems like it's the other side that's whining about not having anything solid to show for.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

 

[Roudy]

Maybe you guys are whining and deflecting so much because you've yet to come up with a solid accomplishment. How pathetic is that?