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| July 22, 2013
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Why is the World So Obsessed with Israel?

The World is so obsessed with Israel, and yet, it’s not doing any good. Maybe it’s time to just allow the parties involved to work out their disagreements among themselves.

By Stephen Marche

 

Jerusalem is everywhere. No matter where you are, Jerusalem is. The power of that holy city intrudes into the strangest and most profane of places. I remember once driving to the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles, draped in the paper they give you at In-N-Out Burger, the kind that covers your whole lap while you gorge and drive, and I turned on the radio to hear a local Christian preacher’s extensive, in-depth analysis of Israel’s latest settlement policies and their relation to the Book of Acts. Continue Reading »

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| July 19, 2013
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A message to the EU: ‘Thank You’

Boycotting Jews is not a new phenomena. It has ushered the brilliance of Europe, North Africa and the Muslim states to immigrate to Israel.
Israel today achieves more than all of its enemies combined.

By Erwin Blank

I have a message for the EU, a little bit of Israeli history that I believe is quite appropriate right now after their action to boycott all Israeli businesses, products and services that are located in Yehudah and Shomron.

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Stormtroopers outside a Berlin store posting signs with the words “Germans! Defend yourselves! Do not buy from Jews” (“Deutsche! Wehrt Euch! Kauft nicht bei Juden!”).

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| July 17, 2013
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The EU is wrong…. Again

Will the Europeans ever understands that the conflict has little to do with the 1967 borders and everything to do with our very existence here?

By Knesset Member Ofir Akunis

The European Union is wrong. Taking a unilateral stand will not encourage the Palestinians to return to the negotiation table. On the contrary — automatically siding with the Palestinian Authority’s positions will only drive them away. Why engage in negotiations with Israel when their demands are met in advance?

MK Ofir Akunis - Facebook photo

MK Ofir Akunis – Facebook photo

It seems that past experiences have failed to leave their mark. Europe has supported the various erroneous notions previously employed here — the Oslo Accords, the disengagement from Gaza Strip, former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert’s proposals to return to the 1967 borders and divide Jerusalem — have all failed.

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| July 17, 2013
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London-UAE cable car deal included an Israeli boycott

Israel is the only country that the Transport for London, 10-year partnership deal, subjected to a total boycott.

By JTA

 

London’s main transportation agency has come under fire for a deal with a United Arab Emirates-based company that excludes Israel from future business dealings.

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The Emirates Air Line a.k.a. the Thames cable car – Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons

Transport for London signed a 10-year partnership deal with Emirates Air Line on the Thames cable car, which opened in June 2012 ahead of the London Olympics.

According to the 2011 contract, which was revealed by the online watchdog group MayorWatch through a Freedom of Information request, Transport for London agreed to abide by the UAE’s foreign policy in the deal.

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| July 10, 2013
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Pro-Palestinians Threatened to Kill Paul McCartney if he Played in Israel

When Artists announce they’re going to perform in Israel, they aren’t worried about selling tickets as they are about their personal safety, because then they are targeted by BDS groups.

By David Lev

 

When rock legend Paul McCartney came to Israel in 2008, he was, at least to some extent, taking his life in his hands. Not because of Israel’s sometimes precarious security situation, but because he was threatened by BDS (boycott, divest, and sanction) anti-Israel groups. “I got death threats, but I’m coming anyway,” the singer was quoted as saying by Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs researcher Adam Shay. 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 13, 2013
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BDS Head: ‘Only Solution is Violence’ against Israel

BDS leaders which seek only to delegitimize & demonize Israel worldwide, said openly that they oppose any peace talks, even with Israeli building freeze.

By Rina Tzv

 

Leaders of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to delegitimize and demonize Israel worldwide, said they oppose any peace talks, even if they include a long-demanded freeze of Israeli construction.

Hamas cartoon – Israel news photo screenshot“We have no faith… in the so-called negotiations,” said Omar Barghouti, head of the BDS movement, which lobbies worldwide for the economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel.

Speaking to the AFP news agency on the sidelines of the fourth annual BDS conference at Bethlehem University at the weekend, Barghouti said the talks were “absolutely useless, just another smokescreen to allow Israel to continue its colonization its building of settlements.” Continue Reading »

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| June 8, 2013
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UK trade union voted to ban its members from visiting Israel

 

Union spokesman: Organizations should not oppose boycott.

Labor Leader Ed Miliband said earlier this year “I think the boycotts of Israel are totally wrong. We should have no tolerance for boycotts.”

By JONNY PAUL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
 

 

LONDON – One of the UK’s largest trade unions is to ban its members from visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories on delegations organized by the Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI), a London-based organization supporting cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian workers.

Boycotting Israel - Photo: REUTERS

Boycotting Israel – Photo: REUTERS

The GMB, which has over 617,000 members from an array of sectors, voted on Thursday at its annual conference in Plymouth to uphold a 2011 decision to “take a lead in driving forward the boycott and divestment initiatives of “companies who profit from illegal settlements, the occupation and the construction of the wall.”

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| June 4, 2013
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British Ambassador: GB vehemently opposes Israel boycott

Amb. Matthew Gould at celebration for queen’s birthday says Great Britain “clearly & unambiguously opposes” Israeli boycotts.

By TAMARA ZIEVE, HADAS PARUSH

 

The British government vehemently opposes boycotts of Israel, British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould affirmed Monday night “clearly and unambiguously,” as his embassy hosted a celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 87th birthday. “They (boycotts) do nothing to build understanding, they put up walls when we should be tearing them down,” he asserted.

Presdient Peres & Ambassador Gould toast Britain's queen - Photo Mati Milstein, courtesy of the British Embassy

Presdient Peres & Ambassador Gould toast Britain’s queen – Photo: Mati Milstein, courtesy of the British Embassy

While Gould acknowledged that the two countries “don’t always agree on everything,” pointing to the issue of settlements, he said that “the important thing is that we disagree as friends, and we will stand alongside Israel as a friend.”

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| June 1, 2013
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Ignoring pressure from BDS, Alicia Keys to go forward with concert in Tel Aviv

Keys balks at calls from anti-Israel activists, among them author Alice Walker, to boycott Israel & says in New York Times interview: ‘I look forward to my 1st visit to Israel.’

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Alicia Keys said Friday that she plans on going forward with her scheduled July concert in Israel, despite pressure from activists to drop the gig, the New York Times reported.

Alicia Keys performs at half time during the NBA All-Star basketball game in Houston, Texas

Alicia Keys performing at halftime during the NBA All-Star basketball game in Houston, Texas, February 17, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

 

Just days after Alicia Keys confirmed her summer performance in March, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign began to kick into gear, and websites, Facebook pages, and petitions urging Keys to cancel her plans to play Tel Aviv started popping up. Continue Reading »

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| June 1, 2013
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Another Major BDS Movement Defeat in U.S.

A Palestinian inspired resolution calling for the boycott of Israeli firms will be ignored at the upcoming TIAA-CREF shareholders meeting.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

 

A resolution calling for the boycott of Israeli firms will not be put to a vote at the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund’s (TIAA-CREF) upcoming shareholders meeting.

Protester calling for a boycott of Israel – Photo: REUTERS

The move comes after the pension fund giant received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to “take no action” on a submission by pro-Palestinian Authority Arab activists. This followed the company’s warning by an Israeli civil rights group that passage of the resolution would violate NY and Federal law. Continue Reading »

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| May 30, 2013
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Canadian Protestants Boycotts 3 Israeli Companies

Canada’s Protestant church approves banning of settlement products.

By JTA

 

 

 

Canada’s largest Protestant church targeted three Israeli companies with operations in Jewish settlements for economic sanctions and boycott.

Protester calling for a boycott of Israel - Photo: REUTERS

Protester calling for a boycott of Israel – Photo: REUTERS

Last week, the United Church of Canada’s governing General Council approved the start of a boycott campaign, encouraging “economic action” against Keter Plastic, SodaStream and Ahava.

The move is an outgrowth of the church’s decision last year to boycott products exported by settlements on the West Bank and in eastern Jerusalem. At the time, the church called the settlements the “principal obstacle to peace in the region.”

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| May 11, 2013
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Chomsky pressed Hawking to boycott Peres’s Presidential Conference

Only after world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking succumbed to local academic pressure and canceling his scheduled appearance in Israel, The Guardian reported that Noam Chomsky was instrumental in pressuring Hawking.

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Noam Chomsky, the anti-Israel Jewish linguist, was involved in the efforts to persuade Stephen Hawking from appearing in Shimon Peres‘s Presidential Conference held annually in Jerusalem.

הוקינג. ביטל את השתתפותו בעקבות פניית פעילים פרו-פלסטינים (צילום: איי אף פי)

Hawking. Health or political concerns? – Photo: AP

The British paper The Guardian reported that Noam Chomsky, together with another 20 academics, sent the renowned physicist a letter urging him not to accept the invitation and cancel his participating in the conference.

According to the report, Chomsky and 20 other academics wrote Hawking that they are very disappointed that he had accepted the invitation since “Israel systematically discriminates against the Palestinians who make up 20% of its population in ways that would be illegal in Britain.” Continue Reading »

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| May 9, 2013
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Netanyahu says Hawking needs to study up on facts about Israel

Member in PM’s entourage: ‘Intelligence’ doesn’t equated to the truth.

By HERB KEINON

 

 

 

BEIJING — Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu slammed Stephen Hawking for joining the boycott against Israel and canceling plans to attend President Shimon Peres’ conference next month, saying the celebrated physicist should “study the facts.”

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking – Photo: REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud

Asked by The Jerusalem Post about Hawking’s boycott at a press briefing, Netanyahu said, “he should investigate the truth, he is a scientist. He should study the facts and draw the necessary conclusions: Israel is an island of reason, moderation and a desire for peace.”

Netanyahu said that Hawking knows that there are many false theories in science. 

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| May 8, 2013
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Hawking’s office wrote to Peres: ‘Hawking will respect the boycott’

 

Confirmation of the original story of Hawking’s boycott proves true, despite the statement from Cambridge University giving health excuses.

by The Commentator on 8 May 2013 14:41

 

Fresh reports are emerging about Prof. Stephen Hawking’s apparent boycott of Israel.

Stephen Hawking lecturing at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 14-12-2006 – The Commentator

The Cambridge professor and renowned theoretical physicist was first reported to be boycotting Israel due to what anti-Israel activists called, “his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there.”

Following a letter to Hawking, as well as numerous online reports, Cambridge University issued a statement, claiming that the report was a “misunderstanding” and that Hawking was not boycotting Israel, but rather that he was not travelling to Shimon Peres’s conference next month for health reasons.

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