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| February 21, 2016
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Canadian parliament to condemn BDS on Monday

 

Stephane Dion, Canada’s Foreign Minister, “We must oppose the boycott, divest, & sanctions campaign in our communities & continue to speak out forcefully against them.”

By Erez Linn & News Agencies

 

The Canadian parliament is set to pass a bipartisan bill that would condemn any efforts to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the House of Commons – Photo: Reuters

“We must fight anti-Semitism in all its forms,” said Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion. “We must oppose the boycott, divest, sanctions campaign in our communities and continue to speak out forcefully against them.” Continue Reading »

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| February 14, 2016
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#BDSfail: UK to ban public institutions from boycotting Israel

 

British gov’t taking steps to prevent discriminatory boycotts saying it stoked anti-Semitism & harmed the UK’s valuable trade relations with Israel.
•New law will enable boycotters to be prosecuted in court.

By Ari Soffer

 

The British government is to announce measures aimed at preventing local councils, unions and other public institutions from launching boycotts against the State of Israel this week.

BDS activists (file) – Wikimedia Commons

Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock told The Times the new guidelines were important to prevent discriminatory boycotts against the Jewish state, which he said both stoked anti-Semitism and harmed the UK’s valuable trade relations with Israel.

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| February 11, 2016
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#BDSfail: Beyoncé concert in Israel is scheduled for August

 

Veiled in secrecy, but finally confirmed Thursday, one of the music world’s hottest superstars has scheduled 2 shows in Tel Aviv for early August. 

By Ami Friedman

 

Superstar Beyoncé is set to play two concerns in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park early this August, it was confirmed on Thursday.

Despite an agreement between the Israeli production company and the singer’s representatives, officials at the company denied that there was any signed contract.

Rumors and speculation swirled over the possible concert on Tuesday, when official dates for Beyoncé’s international tour were published on her website, including an August show at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. Continue Reading »

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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 7, 2016
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#BDSfail: Spanish government pays West Bank university $100,000

 

Ariel University receives over $100,000 compensation from Spanish gov’t for capitulating to BDS pressure in 2009 by excluding the West Bank university from a ‘green-housing’ competition.

By i24news

 

The Spanish government recently paid 430,000 shekels (100,000 dollars) in compensation to an Israeli university in the West Bank for an incident in which 15 architecture students were barred from an international competition sponsored by the Spanish Housing Ministry because they came “from the occupied territories”.

Ariel University had been involved in a complicated legal struggle after a team it sent to Spain in 2009 advanced to become one of 21 finalists in a competition for designing an environmentally-friendly home, Israeli news website Ynet reported. Continue Reading »

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| January 2, 2016
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#BDSfail: Former President of Israel Shimon Peres Nominee for Tipperary Int’l Peace Award

Shimon Peres, who in 1996  set up the Peres Peace Centre which seeks to promote peace between Arabs & Jews in Israel has been recognized as deserving in ‘Ireland for outstanding award for humanitarian work’

By Irish4Israel

 

 

Former Israeli President, Shimon Peres has been nominated for the Tipperary International Peace Award.

 
Peres who was President of Israel until 2014, has been shortlisted for the award along with the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Peter Robinson; the Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson; German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry.
The Tipperary Peace Convention has stated that the winner will be announced in the coming days.
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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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| November 30, 2015
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#BDSfail: Israel and Britain agree to expand scientific cooperation

 

British Ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey said, “The UK is proud that more Israeli students & scientists will now be working together with their British peers,” collaborating in bilateral programs.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

Hundreds of British and Israeli researchers will benefit from new bilateral programs announced by the British government during UK-Israel Science Day last week.

A woman holds a Union flag umbrella in front of the Big Ben clock tower (R) and the Houses of Parliament in London. – Photo: REUTERS

The Science, Technology and Space Ministry in Jerusalem announced on Monday that the NIS 1.5 million funding will enhance research in water, medicine, agriculture, nanotechnology and other sciences and increase the number of scientists from the two countries who work together; at present, hundreds of researchers are already collaborating in existing bilateral programs. Continue Reading »

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| November 1, 2015
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#BDSfail: Rhetoric aside, Israel is simply too good to actually boycott

 

Aside from the hype & publicity stunts, manufactures and investors aren’t about to boycott one of the world’s most innovative countries on the whim of its enemies.

By David Green

 

It’s no secret that some of the most innovative creations and technological advances over the last few decades have been dreamed up and created in Israel. From updates to the F-16 fighter jets of the US Military, to Microsoft’s infamous Intel technology and much of the technological prowess behind Apple’s iPhones, there is no shortage of Israeli innovation throughout the modern world.

Boycott Israel? Really? Just because you said so?

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| September 10, 2015
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#BDSfail: Israel’s Sabra hummus stars on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show debut

 

Stephen Colbert on America’s most watched late night talk show plugs Sabra hummus on debut broadcast in front of nearly 7 million viewers, angering BDS. 

Tzipi Shmilovitz, Navit Zommer

 

It was the most watched debut of the most watched show: Stephen Colbert stepped into David Letterman’s huge shoes on CBS’s Late Show with impressive success, and one of the stars of the programs was Israeli hummus.

His rating – nearly seven million viewers – was double the number of viewers of his alleged biggest competitor, Jimmy Fallon, Jay Leno’s successor. Together with Fallon, Colbert officially became the greatest talk show host in America on Tuesday night. Continue Reading »

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| July 29, 2015
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#BDSfail: Irish Councillors reject divestment of military equipment from Israel

Cllr Brendan Young (Independent) of Kildare County Council proposed a motion Monday 27th July to urge the Irish Army & Dep of Defense to stop importing military equipment from Israel. Kildare is home to Ireland’s largest military base.

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According to Barry McLiam, Irish4Israel welcomed the decision of Kildare County Councillors to reject the following motion:

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In the month of the first anniversary of the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014, the council notes that the United Nations Human Rights Council is gravely concerned by reports regarding serious human rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law, including possible war crimes, committed in the Israeli military operations in the occupied Palestinian territory in 2008/2009 and in 2014, particularly in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of 1,462 Palestinian civilians, including 551 children and 299 women, and six Israeli civilians. Continue Reading »

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| July 24, 2015
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#BDSfail: Christian group in Israel confronts BDS with pragmatic guide

The Christian Empowerment Council’s new guide, written by Father Gabriel Naddaf, seeks to assist Christians the world over better understand the significance of anti-Zionism.

By JNS.ORG

 

The Christian Empowerment Council, an Israeli Christian group headed by Father Gabriel Naddaf, has released a new guide to help Christians better understand the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Father Gabriel Naddaf. – Photo: FACEBOOK

The 12-page guide—titled “Test The Spirits: A Christian Guide to the Anti-Israel Boycott Movement”—seeks to challenge Christian anti-Zionism “on an ideological level” following the “recent discussions concerning BDS in global churches,” including in the Mennonite Church, the Episcopalian Church, and the United Church of Christ.

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| July 13, 2015
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#BDSfail: Mayim Bialik, ‘Coming to Israel was not a political act’

In Interview: After her recent trip to Israel, TV’s ‘Big Bang Theory’ star tells how she dealt with the social media backlash of her trip to the Jewish State.

By TAMARA ZIEVE

 

Actress Mayim Bialik is known for many things, among them old and current TV shows Blossom and The Big Bang Theory, her PHD in neuroscience, and her love for Israel. Last week she combined her passion for the holy land and her successful acting gig as the Big Bang Theory’s Amy Farrah Fowler, drawing an international CBS team to Israel for a photo shoot.

Mayim Bialik

Selfie outside house of relative and poet Hayim Bialik – Photo: MAYIM BIALIK

“I went with them to Paris two years ago and when they asked me where I wanted to do it this time, I said Israel.” Continue Reading »

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