Tag Archive for BDS

| April 17, 2016
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NGO Warns Rockefeller Brothers Fund Over Funding BDS

 

Legal rights NGO sends strongly worded letter to Rockefeller Brothers Fund warning its support of groups that advocate boycotting Israel could cause the fund to be “considered complicit and as a participant in these groups’ illegal activities.”

By Yair Altman and Israel Hayom Staff

 

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has given anti-Israel BDS organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center.

Attorney and Shurat Hadin Director Nissan Darshan-Leitner – Photo: Yossi Veliger

In a scathing letter to the RBF earlier this month, the Israeli legal watchdog group warned the RBF that its support of groups that advocate boycotting Israel could cause the fund to be “considered complicit and as a participant in these groups’ illegal activities.” Continue Reading »

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| April 14, 2016
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#BDSfail: Morgan Freeman keeps “Jerusalem, Israel” on Facebook photo

 

Unlike Van Damme, who succumbed to pressure & removed “Israel” just an hour later, Morgan Freeman keeps “Jerusalem, Israel” on his Facebook photo full day after attacks by Israel haters.

By Gil Ronen

 

Soon after actor Morgan Freeman posted a Facebook profile photo in which he was smiling against the background of Jerusalem’s OId City, his Facebook page – which is “liked” by over 18.5 million people worldwide – has become a battleground for Israel’s haters and lovers.

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Freeman’s Facebook page Screenshot

It appears that what may set off the tirade against Freeman was the fact that he wrote under the photograph that it had been taken in “Jerusalem, Israel”. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2016
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MK Michael Oren has a peace plan ‘that will also take the air out of BDS’

 

Israel’s former ambassador to the US, MK Oren has a plan that lays the groundwork for the 2-state solution, one he believes will ‘take the air out of BDS’ and the only suggestion to be made by this gov’t to the Knesset.

By Yuval Karni

 

Member of Knesset (MK) Michael Oren has expressed his frustration with the government’s lack of initiative in reviving the peace process and put forth his own proposal. He’s the first coalition MK to present any type of political arrangement to the current Knesset

Every MK who spoke at the Yedioth Ahronoth conference claimed that there’s no connection between political stagnation and Israeli policy, and the boycott against Israel. Continue Reading »

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| April 5, 2016
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#BDSfail: 7 more BDS activist lose appeal over racism convictions in French court

 

Top French court upholds punitive ruling in previous criminal case that BDS is illegal discrimination and protesters bound by earlier hate-crime conviction.

By JTA

 

(JTA) A French appeals court upheld the hate-crime convictions of activists who called for a boycott of Israel at a demonstration.

BDS activists protesting (file) – Wikimedia Commons

The ruling delivered last week by the French Cassation Court concerned seven activists whom a criminal appeals court in Caen in southern France slapped with a $1,000 fine each and a conviction for calling for discriminatory acts during the 2010 demonstration outside a supermarket that sold Israeli goods.
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| April 4, 2016
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UK finally ends funding NGO for inciting to hatred & violence against Jews

 

After the Telegraph released secret recordings of the Pro-Palestine ‘War on Want’ activities of promoting an academic boycott of Israel (since 2003) and its funding Apartheid Week on various UK university campuses, the British gov’t ended its funding.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The British government ended its support for the NGO War on Want, founded in 1951, and initially focused on fighting poverty around the world, for inciting to hatred and violence against Jews.

UK NGO War on Want’s website

War on Want has promoted an academic boycott of Israel since 2003 and has funded Apartheid Week on various UK university campuses. Continue Reading »

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| April 1, 2016
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Jerusalem conference exposes BDS propaganda shortfalls

 

Mid-East expert explains to young Jewish leaders fighting an intellectual war against BDS that, “you have to reclaim the narrative of liberalism… that if you are a liberal, you have to be against BDS, because BDS is against co-existence and negotiations.”

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD

 

As the BDS movement and other anti-Israel propaganda continue to gain traction on college campuses around the world, young Jewish leaders are increasingly becoming the most important first line of defense in an intellectual war defined by dueling narratives.

Neil Lazarus teaches students from the Masa-GLI Leadership Development Initiative in Jerusalem how to effectively counter BDS proponents.

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| March 29, 2016
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Georgia becomes sixth American state to ratify anti-BDS legislation

 

#BDSfail: The U.S. States that have passed anti-BDS legislation before Georgia are, Florida, Illinois, South Carolina, Indiana & Arizona.

By JTA

 

WASHINGTON — Georgia became the sixth state to pass a law targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, and the fifth to include settlements as protected from boycott.

The bill was approved March 24 by the State Senate in a 41-8 vote. Two days earlier, the Georgia House of Representatives passed the measure in a 95-71 vote.

BDS sign ‘Made in Israel’ – featured at Ynet and Yediot Ahronoth’s anti-BDS conference, Jerusalem, 28 March, 2016

Lawmakers from both parties supported the bill, which is expected to be signed into law soon by the Republican governor, Nathan Deal. Continue Reading »

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| March 29, 2016
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Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin: It’s Time to Take Down BDS

 

Op-ed: President Rivlin clarifies – not all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism, & not all int’l pressure on Israel is a boycott, but when used as camouflage for anti-Semitism, Israel must stand together to eliminate the BDS threat.

By President Reuven Rivlin

 

Since its establishment in this hostile region, Israel has had to heal with geo-political isolation.

In order to compensate for this isolation, throughout the generations, Israel’s leadership signed a number of strategic alliances with Western powers. These alliances not only guaranteed Israel’s military supremacy, but also ensured the free flow of Israeli culture, trade, and science to the most advanced countries in the world. Continue Reading »

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| March 27, 2016
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#BDSfail: Ignoring BDS harassment, musicians are heading to Israel

 

WATCH VIDEO CLIPS:
• May 2: South African duo Die Antwoord will play in Rishon.
• June 8: Alice Cooper will rock out at Bloomfield Stadium.
• June 8: Indie band Real Estate will perform in Tel Aviv.
• August 10: Metal band Symphony X will play in Tel Aviv.

By Ami Friedman

 

There’ll be something for everyone this summer as heavy rock icon Alice Cooper, progressive metal band Symphony X, the rap-rave duo Die Antwoord and rock band Real Estate have all recently announced concerts in Israel.

The first to visit the Holy Land is the New Jersey indie band Real Estate, who will perform at the Barby club in Tel Aviv on May 25. Continue Reading »

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| March 26, 2016
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Analysis: Addressing BDS and its existential threat to Israel

 

Israel is under threat from the BDS movement, with severe implications to its economy should it succeed. In order to confront this organized, global threat, Israel must recognize & deal with several questions to create an effective response to the movement.

By Tal Keinan

 

Let’s be clear on the numbers: The BDS movement is strongest in Europe.

In 2014 – the last year there are full numbers for – 35 percent of Israel’s exports went to Europe. Thirty-two percent of the Israeli GDP is comprised of exports. That means that exports to Europe account for 12 percent of Israeli GDP. Continue Reading »

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| March 25, 2016
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BDS Demands EU officials boycott anti-BDS conference in Jerusalem

 

Leaders of the anti-Israel movement urged EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini to stop EU’s ambassador to the Jewish State from attending the Yedioth Ahronoth’s anti-BDS conference in Jerusalem, scheduled for this Monday.

By Itamar Eichner

 

Representatives of the BDS movement have demanded that the EU boycott the Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynet anti-BDS conference, which will convene on Monday in Jerusalem. The BDS movement has demanded that EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini order EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen to not participate in a conference panel alongside pro-settlement political leader Dani Dayan.

EU foreign affairs chief Mogherini.

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| March 20, 2016
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Illinois first US state to blacklist companies for adhering to BDS

 

Illinois becomes first US state to produce a list of offenders, of more than 20 American states that are considering legislation or have passed laws targeting companies that conformed with BDS policies against Israel.

By JTA

 

WASHINGTON — An Illinois state agency named 11 companies barred from doing business with the state for boycotting Israel or its settlements, the first such designation by an official US body.

THE DOWNTOWN skyscrapers of Chicago rise against the backdrop of Lake Michigan.- Photo : REUTERS

A number of the entities on the list approved Friday by the Illinois Investment Policy board have pulled money from Israeli businesses that operate in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, but have not boycotted Israel within its 1967 lines.

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| March 16, 2016
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Britain’s Secretary of State for Justice Calls BDS Actions, ‘Methods of Apartheid’

 

“BDS succeeds because people don’t understand that the organization doesn’t exist to help the Palestinians, nor does it protest against specific Israeli policy, rather it is in complete opposition to the existence of the State of Israel.”

By i24news

 

Britain’s Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove on Tuesday slammed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling the group ‘prejudiced’ against Israel and accusing it of encouraging apartheid through its methods.

BDS supporters, London 2009 – Claudia Gabriela Marques Vieira/ Wikipedia

“Israel is dealing with a prejudiced, systematic attack against its existence. The BDS movement, which claims that it is working against apartheid, in retrospect is using methods of apartheid in that it calls for the shunning of Jewish academics, the boycott of Jewish goods, the de-legitimization of Jewish commerce. Continue Reading »

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| March 9, 2016
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#BDSfail: Austrian student association rejects BDS, rebukes American & British universities

 

Rejection of BDS by the University of Vienna student group is believed to the first major European student organization opposing all the anti-Semitic & anti-Israel academic initiatives in Europe & the US.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

 

Berlin – Student association at the University of Vienna issued a statement on Wednesday, declaring their opposition to every form of anti-Semitism, including the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement targeting Israel.

Members of the young Jewish community attend a commemoration ceremony for Holocaust victims in front of the synagogue in Vienna [File] – Photo: REUTERS


“As student representatives it is important for us to criticize the academic boycott against Israel, which entirely excludes Israeli academics,” the student council of the University of Vienna said. Continue Reading »

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| March 3, 2016
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Columbia University bans ‘pro-Israel’ display during nationwide BDS week

Some hint of racial bias at Columbia University student government for banning the pro-Israel display, as chair of the student gov’t and keffiyeh sporting vice-chair, are both members of Students for Justice in Palestine.

By David Rosenberg

 

It’s “Israel Apartheid Week” at college campuses around the world as BDS activists organize displays, activities, and teach-ins to delegitimize Israel. At Columbia University, Apartheid Week organizers even managed to have the opposition banned.

BDS displays – Photo: Lance Laytner

The opposition in this case are pro-Israel students looking to give their peers on campus the other side of the story.

On Tuesday the Columbia student government ordered a display erected by Artists 4 Israel to be removed, claiming it was “offensive” to some students. Continue Reading »

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