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| July 17, 2013
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PA official: EU’s new Judea & Samaria guideline will hurt Palestinians

 

Palestinian officials approach Europeans, saying that Palestinian laborers are going to lose their livelihoods because of the EU decision to exclude settlement enterprises from future cooperative agreements.

Leading manufacturer calls move illegitimate & destructive.

By Daniel Siryoti, Shlomo Cesana & Hezi Sternlicht

 

A senior Palestinian Authority official confirmed to Israel Hayom on Tuesday that many in Ramallah were dissatisfied with the European Union’s decision to withhold economic grants and incentives to Israeli companies situated in Judea and Samaria.

Palestinian laborers want to work – Photo: Aryeh Tadmor

“For our part, we approached a number of [European] Union officials, in the [Palestinian] Authority and also in Israel, to try and prevent the decision or at least to keep it unofficial,” said the official, who declined to give his name.

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| July 15, 2013
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Under Pressure, Fanta Corrects ‘Mistake’ & Puts Israel Back on Site

Only after threatening to boycott Fanta products, Israel return to the company’s site.

Fanta claimed that the omission of Israel was a “mistake”.

By David Lev

 

A threatened boycott of Fanta products (bottled in Israel and elsewhere by Coca Cola) has succeeded in convincing the company’s directors to adjust its web site to reflect Israel’s presence in the Middle East, listing it among the 188 countries the product is sold in.

Fanta products

Coca-Cola / Fanta products – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

In what the company called “an error” last week, Fanta left Israel off the list, while making sure to put in the Palestinian Authority. Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2013
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Queen Elizabeth to Honor Israeli Professor for Opposing Academic Boycott

As part of the Queen’s ‘Birthday Honours List,’ Queen Elizabeth will recognize Prof. David Newman of Ben-Gurion University for advocating academic partnership between countries & for his opposing the U.K. academic boycott of Israel.

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Buckingham Palace announced Saturday that an Israeli professor is among the more than 1,000 people being presented an award by Queen Elizabeth as part of her Birthday Honours list.

Prof. David Newman with Ben-Gurion University President Rivka Carmi

Prof. David Newman with Ben-Gurion University President Rivka Carmi – Photo: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

 

Professor David Newman, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, will receive the award for his promotion of the academic partnership between Britain and Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2013
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Minister Bennett: Label ‘Settler’ Products ‘Made in Peace Zone’

Economics Minister has come up with a  creative idea regarding the labeling of exports originating in Judea & Samaria.

By Gil Ronen

 

Economics Minister Naftali Bennett suggested Tuesday that products manufactured in Judea and Samaria be marked with the label, “Made in the Peace Zone.”

Minister Naftali Bennett

Minister Naftali Bennett

This was Bennett’s novel idea for counteracting the demands to mark products manufactured in Judea and Samaria, as demanded by anti-Israel forces in Europe and elsewhere.

“That way,” he said, “the world will come to Judea and Samaria and see what real coexistence and yearning for peace are.”

Bennett spoke as he toured Samaria and visited Ariel University, where an entrepreneurship conference is being held. Continue Reading »

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| May 9, 2013
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Guardian: Prof. Hawking accused of hypocrisy for boycott of Israel conference

 

Hawking’s critics say that if he’s going to boycott Israel, he should stop using Israeli technology in computer equipment that allows him to communicate.

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Stephen Hawking‘s decision to boycott an Israeli conference in protest at the state’s 46-year occupation of Palestine was derided as hypocritical by some, who pointed out that the celebrated scientist and author uses Israeli technology in the computer equipment that allows him to function.

Hawking, decision to boycott a conference in Israel has been described as hypocritical. - Photo AFPGetty Images

Hawking, decision to boycott a conference in Israel, has been described as hypocritical. – Photo: AFPGetty/ Images

Hawking, 71, has suffered from motor neurone disease for the past 50 years, and relies on a computer-based system to communicate.

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| May 8, 2013
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The Guardian published a BDS LIE: Hawking NOT boycotting Israel

Prof. Hawking’s office has confirmed that he will not attend the conference in Israel  because of health reasons and NOT because of a boycott.

by The Commentator on 8 May 2013 12:07

 

 

New details about the cancellation of Professor Stephen Hawking’s trip to Israel have emerged today after numerous news reports claiming that Prof. Hawking had chosen to boycott the State of Israel.

 

The Guardian, which broke the story late last night, claimed that Hawking was due to boycott Israel after receiving an erroneous statement from the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP), apparently with Hawking’s approval. Continue Reading »

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| March 1, 2013
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Gold given to Ethiopian runner in annual Jerusalem Marathon

PA called for runners & sponsors to boycott marathon for political reasons.

Int’l participants have increased, from 800 two years ago to 1,700 on Friday.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, MELANIE LIDMAN

 

Ethiopian runner Abraham Kabeto Ketla won the third annual International Jerusalem Winner Marathon on Friday, setting a new record for the event with a time of 2:16:29.25.
The leaders in the Jerusalem Marathon at the 5k mark, March 1, 2013

The leaders in the Jerusalem Marathon at the 5k mark, March 1, 2013 – Photo: Melanie Lidman

In second and third place were Luka Kipkemoi Chelimo of Kenya who finished in 2:19:01.95 and Vincent Kiplagat Kiptoo of Kenya who completed the run in 2:20:12.60.

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| February 28, 2013
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EU consuls: EU must prevent Jewish housing in East Jerusalem

Some 22 European consuls posted in East Jerusalem & the West Bank, appeal to Brussels to intensify efforts to stop Jewish home building in West Bank, saying it poses ‘single biggest threat’ to peace process.

By the Associated Press

 

Nearly two dozen European diplomats have urged the EU to intensify efforts to block Israeli settlements in and near Jerusalem, saying that “such construction on occupied lands is the single biggest threat” to a Mideast peace deal, according to an internal report Wednesday.

Har Homa neighborhood in JerusalemThe report called for strict application of an EU-Israel trade pact to ensure products from settlements do not receive preferential treatment under the accord in European markets. Continue Reading »

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| February 26, 2013
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Oxford’s motion to boycott Israel will be rejected

Oxford University students’ union scheduled to vote on motion which calls to boycott & divestment from institutions, goods, produce against Jewish state looks bleak.

By JONNY PAUL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

LONDON – A controversial motion calling for a blanket boycott of Israel by students at Oxford University is expected to be resoundingly rejected this week.

The Oxford University Students’ Union (OUSU) is scheduled to discuss the motion on Wednesday, which calls for the student union to boycott Israeli institutions, goods and produce. It also calls for the OUSU and National Union of Students to join the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign, known as the BDS movement, against the Jewish state.

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| December 9, 2012
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Friends of IDF event raised over $14 million in spite of no Wonder

Actor Jason Alexander emceed the event in Los Angeles to aid Israeli soldiers, with music from”American Idol” winner Ruben Studdard and 10-time Grammy winner Chaka Khan.

By JTA

The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces fundraiser that singer Stevie Wonder pulled out of raised more than $14 million.

More than 1,400 people attended the event in Los Angeles to aid Israeli soldiers. Entertainment mogul Haim Saban and his wife, Cheryl chaired the gala. Saban is a national board member of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder – Photo by AP

Actor Jason Alexander emceed the event, which featured a performance by David Foster and Friends. Continue Reading »

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| August 15, 2012
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Arab Tycoon Talks Peace with Jew in Supermarket, Angering Boycotters

A Palestinian Authority tycoon talked peace with Rami Levyatn one of his food outlets, angering boycotters.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

A Palestinian Authority tycoon talked peace with Israeli supermarket mogul Rami Levy in one of his outlets in Judea and Samaria, angering the boycott movement.

Arabs shop at Rami Levy supermarket in Gush Etzion

Arabs shoping at Rami Levy supermarket in Gush Etzion
Israel news photo: Flash 9

Arab billionaire Munib Al-Masri met with Levy, who has backed nationalist causes and has promoted Arab-Jewish co-existence by hiring workers from both sectors in his supermarkets, several of which are located in Judea and Samaria. The newest store, located in Gush Etzion, is filled with Jewish and Arab shoppers, especially on Thursday, the day before the Muslim day of rest and the eve of Jewish Sabbath. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2012
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Boycott of Israeli scholars sinks university anthology

 

Arab contributors for collection of writings by Middle Eastern women bolt over Israelis’ inclusion

 

The University of Texas. (photo credit: CC-BY rutlo, Flickr)
The University of Texas. Photo: CC-BY rutlo, Flickr

NEW YORK (JTA) — A planned anthology of Middle Eastern women’s writing will not be completed because of an academic boycott of two Israeli authors’ work.

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin had planned to publish an anthology of writing by Middle Eastern women in honor of Elizabeth Fernea, a professor emerita at the university who died in 2008, and who focused on women’s issues in the Middle East.

But, according to Inside Higher Ed, one of the anthology’s 29 authors said that she would withdraw her work from the anthology unless it excluded the work of two Israeli writers who were also asked to contribute to the anthology. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2012
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German controversy over Israel boycott

Politicians reject German mayor’s Israel boycott. Schröter: goal is to label goods from ‘illegal’ settlements.

BERLIN – Social Democratic, Left Party and Christian Democratic politicians rejected last week Jena Mayor Albrecht Schröter’s campaign for a wide-ranging boycott of Israeli products.Critics accused Schröter, 57, the Social Democratic mayor of Jena in Thuringia state, of fostering modern anti-Semitism with his support for a call by the German branch of Pax Christi, an international Catholic “peace movement,” to not buy Israeli goods.
Schroter (second left) - Photo: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Schroter (second left) - Photo: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Wiltrud Rösch-Metzler, Pax Christi vice president, wrote last week, “I am not buying goods with the origin specification ‘Israel’ because under this designation products could come from the settlements.

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| May 22, 2012
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Red Hot Chili Peppers urged to boycott Israel

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been targeted by anti-Israel campaigners who want the band to cancel a planned gig in Tel Aviv.

 

The band is due to perform in the country in September, a decade after they cancelled a gig because of concerns about terrorist attacks.

Red Hot Chili Peppers live

Red Hot Chili Peppers

The group Boycott From Within is calling for the rock band to pull out of the gig, which is part of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ world tour, because of the political situation.

“High profile performances, such as your scheduled gig, have served the government’s agenda of whitewashing its war crimes and creating an image of Israel as a “modern state”, where celebrities come to perform and see the sights,” wrote the BDS campaigners in a letter to the California-based band. Continue Reading »

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| May 20, 2012
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Denmark to ban labeling West Bank products as ‘Made in Israel’, report says

Report comes after South Africa says only recognizes State of Israel within borders demarcated by UN in 1948; move is in line with U.K. recommendation from 2009.

 

Denmark is planning to ban labeling products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank as “Made in Israel,” the foreign minister told Danish media on Saturday. The move follows reports of similar plans announced this month by South Africa’s government.

“This is a step that clearly shows consumers that the products are produced under conditions that not only the Danish government, but also European governments, do not approve of,” Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal Søvndal told Politiken newspaper. Continue Reading »

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