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| June 17, 2014
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Desmond Tutu asks U.S. Christians to recognize Israel as apartheid state

At Presbyterian Church meeting in Detroit, veteran anti-Israel campaigner Desmond Tutu seeks to pass series of divestment resolutions.

 

Veteran anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu has called on the Presbyterian Church (USA) to pass a series of resolutions condemning Israel as an apartheid state and proposing policies to boycott it.

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Delegates at the 2012 Presbyterian Church General Assembly. – Photo: AP

The church’s biennial General Assembly, which is currently meeting in Detroit, has on its agenda eight resolutions dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Activists want the church and its institutions to use their investment dollars to punish Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians, such as by withdrawing investments from companies whose products are used by the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories.

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| June 15, 2014
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Presbyterian Church rallies to accept BDS against Israel


More & more religious organizations are gearing up to join the boycott and work to promote divestment from Israel, as the BDS movement gains steam in the US.

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NEW YORK – The Presbyterian Church (USA) appears to be on the brink of handing a major victory to a movement that wants institutions to wield their investment dollars against Israel over its ‘treatment of the Palestinians’.

P ChurchThe Presbyterian General Assembly, gathering in Detroit through next week, will consider withdrawing its investments from some companies whose products are used by the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories.

Divestment advocates were narrowly outmaneuvered at the last Presbyterian convention in 2012, losing a crucial ballot by just two votes. Continue Reading »

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| May 31, 2014
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Palestinian Authority: BDS Activists Are Troublemakers, Criminals

In the 1st case of its kind, 4 prominent BDS activists this week went on trial before a Palestinian Authority court for “provoking riots & breach of public tranquility.”

A PA official in Ramallah explained that BDS and its followers make the Palestinians appear as if they are all radicals who are only interested in boycotting & delegitimizing Israel.

by Khaled Abu Toameh

 

At university campuses in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe, they are hailed as heroes campaigning for Palestinian rights. But in Ramallah, ironically, activists belonging to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions [BDS] movement are seen by the Palestinian Authority [PA] as trouble-makers and law-breakers. Continue Reading »

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| May 4, 2014
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Watch: BDS Activist Arrested When He Attacked Pro-Israel Rally

As pro-Israel group continues to fight against BDS boycotters in Brighton, British police detained least 6 anti-Israel activists.

By Ari Soffer

 

At least six anti-Israel protesters were arrested after attempting to disrupt a pro-Israel rally in the English town of Brighton on Saturday.

SFI activists supporting Eco Stream in Brighton – Photo: Oren Teichman

The arrests came during weekly protests and counter-protests at the Israeli Eco Stream store in the southern town, which supporters of the so-called BDS movement have been calling on people to boycott.

For their latest protest, BDS groups – including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) – enlisted support from several trade union groups in an attempt to re-energize their campaign, which began to flounder after a concerted effort by locals, led by Sussex Friends of Israel (SFI), to counter their calls for an anti-Israel boycott. Continue Reading »

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| April 21, 2014
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The Racism and Open Hatred of the Israel-Bashers

Chloe Simone Valdary, an African-American undergraduate student who supports Israel has become the latest precipitant of vile, hateful & racist slurs from the BDS advocates.

By Anthony Hardy Williams/The New York Post

 

The Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Israel is often seen as progressive — so it’s astounding to see its supporters turn to racism.

Chloe Simone Valdary and friends advocation for Israel - Facebook photo

Chloe Simone Valdary (2nd from left) and friends advocating for Israel – Facebook photo

The latest target: Chloe Simone Valdary, an African-American undergraduate at the University of New Orleans and founder of the Allies of Israel Association.

Valdary recently wrote an article criticizing the Jewish Museum’s decision to invite Judith Butler, a University of California, Berkeley professor and outspoken BDS supporter to speak — an invitation Butler at first accepted, then declined. Continue Reading »

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| March 27, 2014
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Boycott Jewish products? – The Ultimate Response to BDS

 

 

Brother Rashid, a charismatic & popular Moroccan Christian television preacher, has a few choice words for those who would divest themselves of Jewish inventions & products.

Translated by: www.israelinarabic.com

Brother Rashid from YouTube screenshot

Brother Rashid from YouTube screenshot

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| March 27, 2014
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BDS pressure Rolling Stones to quit Israel concert is ignored

 

Day after official announcement, pro-Palestinian propagandists call on legendary rock band to cancel performance ‘in apartheid Israel.’

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A day after producers officially announced that the Rolling Stones will be performing in Israel for the first time ever on June 4, Palestinian campaigners have launched an appeal urging the British rock group to cancel the event.

Rolling Stones in Tokyo

The Rolling Stones perform during their concert at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Feb. 26, 2014. – Photo: AP

“We are writing to urge you to refrain from playing in apartheid Israel and not to condone Israel’s violations of international law and human rights against the Palestinian people,” the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) said in a statement. Continue Reading »

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| March 26, 2014
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University of Michigan votes down BDS, but Chicago’s Loyola narrowly passes

After a 6-hour meeting, Michigan’s student gov’t votes down Israel divestment. In Chicago, the vote to accept the BDS proposal went smoothly.

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An Israel divestment resolution was narrowly passed a second time by the student government of Chicago’s Loyola University, while a similar resolution was defeated at the University of Michigan.

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University of Michigan – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

Loyola United Student Government Association first passed a resolution on March 19 calling on the university evening to remove its holdings from eight companies that provide equipment to Israel for use in the West Bank. The vote on a measure proposed by the Loyola chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine passed 26-0 with two abstentions.

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| March 25, 2014
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UK Minister for Universities & Science: No academic boycotts of Israel in Britain

During his visit to Jerusalem, David Willetts, the British Minister for Universities and Science says fewer Israelis have been coming to study in UK because of misperception of hostility.

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Fewer Israeli students have been coming to England to study because of mistaken perceptions that Britain is “an unfriendly or hostile place” to Israel or Israelis. That mistaken perception needs addressing, said David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, in a visit to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday.

UK Universities Minister David Willetts (Wikimedia Commons)

UK Universities Minister David Willetts: Perception of hostility to Israelis is mistaken. – Photo by Wikimedia Commons

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| March 6, 2014
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European youth group votes “No” on boycotting Israel

 

Youth of the European People’s Party votes to end all boycotts in Judea & Samaria. YEPP calls on EU not to harm Israeli businesses.

Hungary conference is 1st in Europe to vote contrary to boycott movement.

By Efrat Forsher

 

The Youth of the European People’s Party — a center-right political youth organization representing 39 European countries — has cast the first-ever vote against boycotting products and factories in Judea and Samaria. The Samaria Regional Council in tandem with Likud and Yisrael Beytenu youth leaders successfully lobbied to pass the vote against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, which took place at the YEPP conference in Hungary.

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| March 2, 2014
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WATCH: Ben Shapiro at UCLA: “BDS is just another form of anti-semitism”

Students at University of California Las Angeles (UCLA) voted down this week a BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanction) proposal against Israel.

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Ben Shapiro on Piers Morgan - Screebshot CNN

Ben Shapiro on Piers Morgan – Screenshot from CNN

Orthodox Jewish Conservative talk-show host Ben Shapiro addressed the crowd ahead of the vote in a pointed two-minute speech.

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| March 2, 2014
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Norwegian YMCA decides to boycott Israel

The Norwegian YMCA-YWCA ‘encourages broad economic boycott of goods & services from Israel to pressure the Israeli gov’t to end the illegal occupation of Palestine’.

By JTA

 

Norway’s Young Men and Women’s Christian Association aligned itself with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, or BDS.

Flags at the Jerusalem YMCA building. But where is Israel’s?
Photo: Oren Nachshon

The Norwegian YMCA-YWCA “encourages broad economic boycott of goods and services from Israel and Israeli settlements to pressure the Israeli government to follow up on U.N. resolutions and end the illegal occupation of Palestine,” the organization wrote in a statement published on its Norwegian-language website last week.

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| February 26, 2014
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Students in Britain: ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ Losing Momentum

Jewish students in the UK say anti-Israel activities losing steam, as pro-Israel activists launch a pro-active educational campaign to counter the half-truths and fallacies.

By Ari Soffer

 

It’s that time of year again. As Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) hits campuses across the globe, Jewish students are once more bracing for a week of demonization and assaults on the legitimacy of the Jewish state.

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Since launching in Canada ten years ago, the phenomenon has taken hold in campuses across several different countries, including the US and Britain. Based on the spurious, yet maliciously effective, accusation that Israel is in some way akin to apartheid South Africa, anti-Zionist groups have found the perfect way to monopolize the discourse and shut out any debate on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Continue Reading »

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| February 26, 2014
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What BDS? Survey Shows Palestinians Prefer Israeli Products

 

As BDS activists worldwide rally to impose boycott on Israeli products, the Palestinians themselves are increasingly taking home ‘blue & white’.

By Ryan Jones

 

Even as activists worldwide purportedly working on behalf of the “Palestinian cause” push for a boycott of Israeli products, the Palestinian Arabs themselves are increasingly buying “blue & white.”

Survey: Palestinians Prefer Israeli Products

Initially, members of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement were upset that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas would not officially endorse their efforts to put Israel in an economic stranglehold.

But a recent survey by the Palestinian Authority’s Consumer Protection Authority revealed the possible reason for Abbas’ reluctance: the Palestinian Arabs are major consumers of Israeli products. Continue Reading »

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| February 25, 2014
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In 87 cities worldwide, Israel Apartheid Week is at a university near you

 

With focus on Britain, events held at Oxford, Cambridge and other prestigious campuses meant to delegitimize the State of Israel and denying Zionism.

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The 10th annual Israel Apartheid Week is being marked this and next week in 87 cities around the world, with Britain having the largest number of them.

Message at the University of the Witwatersrand.

A pro-Palestinian message on the graffiti wall at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.- Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

The initiative is part of the international boycott, divestment and sanctions movement’s campaign against Israel, focusing on its continued control of the occupied territories.

Most of the related events take place on university campuses and are organized by Palestinian student groups or their allies.

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