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| September 6, 2015
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Arrest petition for Israel PM in UK hits target – but still worthless

 

Call to arrest Israeli PM over false accusations for anti-Israel PR receives over 100,000 signatures, but the British foreign office dismissed the petition, calling it “a PR exercise with no real meaning.”

By i24news

 

An online petition on the United Kingdom Parliament’s official website calling for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon his arrival in London over alleged war crimes has received more than 100,000 signatures, making the matter eligible for debate by lawmakers.

“Benjamin Netanyahu is to hold talks in London this September,” the petition reads. “Under international law he should be arrested for war crimes upon arrival in the UK for the massacre of over 2000 civilians in 2014.” Continue Reading »

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| August 13, 2015
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British Petition Calls to Arrest Netanyahu Upon September Visit to UK

Israel’s Foreign Ministry: Petition signed by 40,000 to arrest PM for “war crimes” is merely a public relations stunt with no practical significance.

By Eli Leon & Israel Hayom Staff

 

As of Wednesday morning, nearly 40,000 people had signed an online petition calling for the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on war crimes charges during his visit to the United Kingdom next month.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – Photo: AP

The petition was created on the British Parliament’s E-petitions website. The petition says, “Benjamin Netanyahu is to hold talks in London this September. Under international law he should be arrested for war crimes upon arrival in the U.K.

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| October 10, 2014
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1,200 academics charge BDS ‘violates the very principle of academic freedom’

1,200 academics challenge boycott of Israel by signing petition that charges BDS being unfairly prejudice and for stifling academic freedoms.

By i24news

After upward of 350 anthropologists from around the world have endorsed a boycott of Israel and its academic institutions, some 1,200 academics signed a pro-Israeli petition calling to oppose such measures.

Boycott Israel, BDS ( Twitter )

Boycott Israel, BDS – Twitter

“We, the undersigned academics, (faculty, full time and part time, academic staff including librarians, researchers, post doctorates, technicians and technologists, administrators, and trustees) vigorously support free speech and free debate but we oppose faculty or student boycotts of Israel’s academic institutions, scholars and students,” reads the petition, posted on the website of the Faculty for Academic Freedom. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2014
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Hamas beats Palestinians with clubs to prevent them from reaching urgent medical assistance.

WAR CRIMES: Hamas Police caught beating Palestinians with clubs that try to leave the areas Israel warned would be bombed.

By The Shoebat Foundation

 

We’ve heard the reports. Below is some video that seems to corroborate those reports. It’s bad enough that Hamas launches rockets from civilian locations like schools, hospitals and neighborhoods in the interest of garnering international sympathy when civilians are killed.

What happens when civilians attempt to heed the IDF warnings to evacuate so the locations can be bombed without civilian deaths, is far worse. These civilians are beaten by Hamas to force them back into the buildings they know have been targeted for destruction. Continue Reading »

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