"The Palestinian people today live in a prison in their own territory, surrounded by a huge wall"....Oh Please get your facts right, at least sound a little educated....
Spanish politicians call for cancellation of Israeli concert
Left-wing politicians in the autonomous region of Galicia in Spain recently called on their local government to cancel an upcoming concert by Israeli singer Achinoam Nini and boycott Israel. The Galician Left Alternative, an umbrella organization that represents the region’s third largest political bloc, went on to condemn “the employment of the Israeli singer…who has sympathy to the Zionist military.” The anti-Israel coalition’s education and cultural council has demanded that the May 21 concert be canceled because it contributes to “the colonization of Palestine and violence that the Israeli state exercises against the Palestinian people. The Palestinian people today live in a prison in their own territory, surrounded by a huge wall.” A number of months ago the same left-wing coalition vetoed a parliamentary resolution commemorating the Holocaust.
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Jordanian and Turkish airlines disavow sponsorship of tourism conference in Jerusalem
Royal Jordanian and Turkish Airlines recently decided to rescind their sponsorship of an Israeli tourism conference in Jerusalem after pro-Palestinian campaigners pressured the companies to boycott the event. The Royal Jordanian logo had appeared on the “supporter” page of the conference’s website, alongside the logos of Turkish Airlines and Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After this was discovered, twitter users in both Jordan and Turkey mounted a campaign calling for the boycott of The Second Jerusalem International Tourism Summit. Royal Jordanian has flown to Israel since the 1994 peace treaty Amman signed with Jerusalem.
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University of Sheffield decides not renew contract with Veolia
The University of Sheffield recently decided not to renew its waste collection contract with Veolia following a student boycott campaign. The campaign, launched by the Palestine Society, and supported by the student union, called on the educational institution to sever its ties with the multinational corporation over the latter’s providing of services to Israeli cities in Judea and Samaria, lands liberated after the 1967 Six Day War. Last October, the student union voted to endorse the BDS movement. “It is enormously gratifying that university management appears to have been responsive to the concerns both of ourselves and of the wider student body,” pro-Palestinian activists wrote. In its action, the British university decided to award the contract to one of Veolia’s competitors. Veolia is a French company with activities in water management, waste management, and energy and transport services. The company has a major operation in Israel.
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Oberlin College students pass anti-Israel divestment resolution
Students at Oberlin College in Ohio recently passed a divestment resolution against the Middle East’s sole democratic state. The college is a liberal arts institution situated in Oberlin. In a press release, Oberlin College Students for a Free Palestine noted that a majority of the student senate passed the resolution after a three-hour debate. The resolution calls for the divestment of Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar, Veolia, Elbit Systems, G4S and SodaStream, companies representing “a wide range of injustices perpetrated on the Palestinian people by Israel." Next semester students plan to take the resolution to Oberlin College Board of Trustees’ Finance Committee, and to urge the latter to adopt the policies outlined in the resolution. Among the sponsors of the resolution were the Student Labor Action Coalition, Mexican American Students Association, La Alianza Latina, South Asian Students Association, and the Oberlin Queer Wellness Coalition.-----------
The Briefing: Israel, and the Jewish community at large, is beset by a dangerous international campaign utilizing new strategies to delegitimize the Jewish State. Unable to defeat the IDF militarily or weaken the population through persistent terrorism, the extremist groups, Islamic terrorists and their rogue regime allies have embarked upon a global effort to demonize and isolate Israel, casting it as a pariah state.The widespread Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and its utilization of Lawfare, is the main component of the "Durban Strategy" adopted by Israel's opponents at the U.N.'s Human Rights Conference in 2001. Tactics like the Gaza Flotilla, the effort overseas to indict IDF officers and elected officials for war crimes, blood libels in the media, the boycotting of Israeli academics, and the persistent debate over whether a Jewish State has a right to exist, are having a perilous impact on Israel's security and diplomatic capabilities. As the Anti-Defamation League has stated: "The BDS movement at its very core is anti-Semitic."
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