Tag Archive for BDS

| March 1, 2016
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BDS victory [sic] facilitated loss of 500 Palestinian workers at SodaStream

 

view videoInt’l boycott threats and intimidation from BDS activist forced SodaStream to relocate its major factory from an Israeli community beyond the Green Line to the Negev in southern Israel, resulting in over 500 Palestinian workers leaving the company.

By News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Hundreds of Palestinian workers are now unemployed after the factory where they worked, in an Israeli community beyond the Green Line, was targeted by an international boycott movement and forced to move to inside Israel, the company’s chief executive said Monday.

The SodaStream factory in Maale Adumim [Archive] – Photo: Reuters

Daniel Birnbaum, CEO of SodaStream International, said the last 74 Palestinian workers left Monday after being denied permits to work inside Israel at the new factory. Continue Reading »

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| February 12, 2016
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BDS attacks on SodaStream have harmed hundreds of Palestinians for personal gain

 

SodaStream CEO reveals long campaign of intimidation, vandalism  libel, and a ‘terror-like grenade assault,’ that forced him to fire hundreds of PA Arabs, relocate, and still, it doesn’t stop.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

For over eight years the Israeli company SodaStream has been dealing with ongoing attacks by the BDS movement, calling to boycott it over its factory in Mishor Adumim to the east of Jerusalem that eventually it was forced to move to the Negev in late 2014.

Large economic losses inflicted by the BDS boycott movement forced the company to make the move – but the big losers in the story are the hundreds of Palestinian Arab employees of SodaStream who lost their jobs and income. Continue Reading »

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| February 11, 2016
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BDS leader accuses Israel of ‘bribing’ Hollywood stars with Oscar ‘swag bag’

 

Included among the goodies in the $200,000 gift bag offered to the actors & directors nominated for Academy Awards will be given a $55,000, 10-day, 1st-class trip to Israel.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Pro-Palestinian supporters who advocate a boycott of Israel urged Hollywood A-listers nominated for Oscars to reject an all-expenses paid trip to the Holy Land funded by the Israeli government.

Actors Leonard DiCaprio (R) and Kate Winslet. – Photo: REUTERS

Advocates of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement reacted to news that Oscar nominees in the acting and directing categories at this month’s Academy Awards will be given a 10-day, first-class trip to Israel valued at $55,000, included among other goodies in their $200,000 gift bag.

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| February 8, 2016
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BDS supporters bombard Jennifer Lopez on Twitter to #CancelTelAviv show

 

As were past artists Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and many more, Jennifer Lopez in being challenged for her decision to perform in Israel on social media with an onslaught of disinformation, propaganda, and false claims. 

By i24news

 

Jennifer Lopez is facing a backlash on social media from pro-Palestine supporters over her rumored plans to perform in Israel for the first time this coming summer.

Jennifer Lopez – Photo: AFP

Using the hashtag #CancelTelAviv, activists, some using graphic photos purportedly showing injured children in Gaza, are accusing her of ‘entertaining children’s killers’ and called for her to cancel her still unconfirmed show.
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| January 28, 2016
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Israeli Business Buys Local Products for Export Abroad to Combat BDS

 

To combat the BDS movement, an Israeli organization based near Shiloh in the West Bank, purchases products from small businesses throughout Judea, Samaria & the Golan Heights, then markets them abroad.

By Michael Bachner, TPS

 

A West Bank-based organization is taking action to protect businesses in the West Bank and the Golan from boycott campaigns by purchasing goods produced in small businesses there and marketing them to thousands around the world.

Store in the West Bank – Photo: Tazpit

The initiative was made by the Lev HaOlam (Heart of the World) organization, founded two and a half years ago by Nati Rom, who lives in a hilltop community east of Shilo in the West Bank.  Continue Reading »

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| January 23, 2016
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#BDSfail: New York latest state to pass anti-BDS legislation

 

The New York State Senate passes law his week that prohibits the state from cooperating with all companies that seek to boycott, divestment or pass sanctions against Israel.

By Ben Ariel, Canada

 

The state of New York this week became the latest state to pass legislation against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

BDS supporters (illustration) – Reuters

The New York State Senate passed a bill that prohibits the state from doing business with companies that seek to harm Israel and other American allies through boycotts and discriminatory economic agendas.

The bill (S6378A), sponsored by Senator Jack Martins (7th Senate Distict) and Senator Simcha Felder (17th Senate District), passed on Wednesday. Continue Reading »

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| January 21, 2016
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#BDSfail: Israeli products return to Slovenia supermarket shelves

 

The Mercator chain reversed its decision made 2 days ago by acknowledging it will continue to sell Israeli fruit, leaving the Slovenian Embassy to reiterate: ‘There is no Slovenian boycott of Israeli products.’

By Itamar Eichner

 

Two days after Slovenia’s biggest supermarket chain Mercator relented to pressure from the BDS Movement and removed Israeli products off its shelves, it went back on its decision, placing a new order for fruit from Israel, including pomelos and avocados.

Slovenian supermarket chain Mercator.

The Ynet report about the decision was cited on Slovenian media, with an emphasis put on the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s accusation that this was a boycott against Israel. Continue Reading »

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| January 6, 2016
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#BDSfail: California legislator calls to divest from companies that boycott Israel

 

The proposed bill would prohibit California state gov’t from contracting with companies who are “engaging in actions that are politically motivated and are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or otherwise limit commercial relations with the State of Israel.”

By Cynthia Blank

 

A bill taking aim at the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement was introduced in the California state legislature Monday.

BDS (illustration)

BDS (illustration) – Reuters

If passed, the bill would prohibit California’s government from giving contracts to companies “engaging in actions that are politically motivated and are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or otherwise limit commercial relations with the State of Israel.”
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| December 20, 2015
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France’s PM Valls condemns BDS for turning ‘Criticism of Israel into anti-Semitism’

 

French MP Meyer Habib, representing France’s dual-nationals, calls on his government to enforce existing anti-boycott laws.

By LAHAV HARKOV

 

The French government firmly condemns boycotts of Israel, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls this week said, warning against the phenomenon of organizations criticizing Israeli policies turning to anti-Semitic activities.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls leaves after a speech to present a plan to fight racism and anti-Semitism at the Prefecture in Creteil near Paris April 17, 2015. – Photo: REUTERS

Valls made his statement Wednesday in response to a question from French MP Meyer Habib, who pointed out the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel is active in France despite laws against boycotts, and called for better enforcement. Continue Reading »

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| December 15, 2015
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BDS, pro-Palestinian groups lie when calling IDF soldiers “war criminals”, according to int’l military experts

 

BDS, Breaking the Silence organization, and pro-Hamas advocates lie through their teeth when articulating the IDF’s conduct during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, whereas the 14 international senior military officers wouldn’t.

By Barry Shaw

 

The BDS and Breaking the Silence LIE when they call our brave soldiers “war criminals” and accuse the IDF of “war crimes.” So let me introduce non-Israel, non-Jewish neutral experts to give their opinion.

14 international former chiefs of staff and senior military officers reviewed the 2014 Gaza conflict from both the IDF and Hamas operations.

They visited Israel both during and after the conflict. They interviewed soldiers from the regular foot-soldiers to unit commanders all the way up to the highest ranks of the IDF. Continue Reading »

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| December 11, 2015
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Birthright: To Fight BDS, One Must Know Israel

 

The intimate encounter American students have with Israelis their age & the strong bonds that are created help these youngsters return to their campuses with the tools to effectively & correctly confront hostile attacks, armed with their positive and powerful experience in Israel.

By Gidi Mark

 

Delegates of the American Anthropological Association recently passed a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions at their annual conference in Denver, Colorado. Now the association’s 12,000 members worldwide will be asked to approve or reject the decision. If approved, the boycott will focus only on Israel’s academic institutions at first, but it could snowball into legitimizing additional boycotts that will hurt Israel’s image and undermine its social, industrial and economic fortitude.

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| December 7, 2015
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Ex-Cambridge researcher who boycotted Israeli schoolgirl under police investigation

 

Former Cambridge professor who boycotted Israeli 13 yr-old schoolgirl, saying won’t help because ‘Jews have become Nazis’, is now being investigated for possible hate-crime.

By JTA

 

The British-American Jewish academic who told a 13-year-old Israeli girl that she would not answer her questions for a school project until there is peace in Palestine is under police investigation.

Building at Cambridge University in England. – Photo: REUTERS

The Cambridgeshire Constabulary confirmed on Friday to the London-based Jewish Chronicle that it was investigating a complaint about a comment by archaeozoologist Marsha Levine, a former academic at the University of Cambridge, who told the Jewish Chronicle in response to an interview about the girl’s request that “the Jews have become the Nazis.” Continue Reading »

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| December 1, 2015
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Former Cambridge researcher boycotts Israeli schoolgirl claiming ‘Jews have become Nazis’

 

Ex-Cambridge academic refuses to answer 13 yr-old Israeli girl’s question about horses for a school project, instead lectures her about ‘Palestine’.

By The Elder of Ziyon

 

Dr. Marsha Levine is an expert on the history of the domestication of horses who is (still claims to be) a researcher at Cambridge University – although apparently she no longer is.

Shamir Rabinovitch – Facebook

A young Israeli girl named Shachar Rabinovitch wrote to her for help on a school research project:

 

Hello!

My name is Shachar Rabinovitch and I'm from Israel.

I'm doing an assessment for school about horses, and it will be great if you can
answer a few questions that I will ask.
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| November 24, 2015
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After BDS threats, 4 festival participants say they fear for their lives

 

International musicians due to perform at ‘Titans of Metal’ festival in Israel next month admitted to producers they fear for their lives after receiving BDS threats.

Ami Friedman

 

Any Israeli producer who wants to bring an artist over to the Holy Land can anticipate in advance the responses from pro-Palestinian organizations asking the artist to change their mind and cancel their visit. When a big name is involved, there’s a good chance they’ll get an email from Roger Waters himself, asking that they forgo the planned performance and join the cultural boycott of Israel, led by the BDS movement. Continue Reading »

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| November 7, 2015
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Munich mayor rejects Israel’s request to cancel tax-funded BDS lecture

 

Outlawed in France as anti-Semitic, and reported in the Spanish press as a violent organization’ after Matisyahu’s concert ban & then reinvitation, the BDS city-sponsored lecture will take place on the eve of the Nazis’ ‘Kristallnacht’, in Munich, of all places.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

 

“We are in touch with the municipality of Munich in order to prevent this event from happening,” the head of Israel’s consulate, Dan Shaham, wrote to ‘The Jerusalem Post’ on Friday.

Demonstrators take part in a pro-Israel rally in Munich. – Photo: REUTERS

BERLIN – Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter on Friday refused a request from Israel’s top diplomat in the city to pull the plug on an allegedly anti-Semitic event advocating a boycott of the Jewish state in a municipal building. Continue Reading »

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