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Friday, September 22, 2023

"Palestine Writes" conference isn't happy with a two state solution - it wants it all

Here's the description of one of the sessions at the "Palestine Writes" conference being held at the University of Pennsylvania this weekendThe Right of Return and How to Achieve it One of the most important lessons we have learned from 75 years of exile is that the essence of the struggle has not changed: It is the expulsion of the people of Palestine from their homes...

Open Hillel is dead. Its successor doesn't know why it exists.

Remember Open Hillel?About ten years ago, a group of students at Harvard became incensed that their Jewish campus Hillel canceled an anti-Israel event when it was revealed that a BDS group was sponsoring it, violating Hillel's guidelines. Of course they could hold their event anywhere, but they decided to start a movement called Open Hillel to get other Hillels to drop...

Google launches program to actually help Palestinians more than all the NGOs combined

What does it mean to be "pro-Palestinian?"To most people who define themselves that way, it means to be anti-Israel. Even though NGOs spend tens of millions of dollars in their anti-Israel efforts, writing yet another report finding yet another way Israel is supposedly the worst abuser in the world doesn't help Palestinians one bit. Google just announced an initiative...

BDSers are proud of using violence to stifle free speech

From JTA last week:Pro-Palestinian protesters injured a university employee while demonstrating against a lecture speaker who heads the Brazilian chapter of a pro-Israel advocacy group.Andre Lajst, the director of StandWithUs Brazil, was speaking about ways that Israeli technologies could help develop the Amazon region at the Federal University of Amazonas in Manaus on Thursday...

Amnesty's position on "freedom of expression" in films is curiously one-sided

Today, Amnesty International tweeted this:Amnesty is saying that banning a movie is a violation of freedom of expression. Amnesty is against all forms of censorship - the allegation that the movie promotes homosexuality does not seem to be the issue at all, just freedom of expression.However, when Lebanon bans movies for having Israeli actors or producers, Amnesty has not...

BDSers eating their own

Haaretz reports:Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi...canceled last Monday’s scheduled performance at Fattoush Bar in Haifa, in wake of a BDS media campaign against her. “We call upon Tunisians and Arabs, and all Palestine supporters around the world, to boycott Emel Mathlouthi, all her music and all her shows,” the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement activists had written.Last...

The first paragraph of the American Anthropological Association's BDS resolution refers to a fictional Palestinian organization (update)

This week, the American Anthropological Association voted to boycott all Israeli academic institutions. The resolution that they approved is antisemitic. It says that Israel's very existence is "apartheid", not "settlements" or "occupation", saying that "from the onset of the Nakba, the catastrophic events of 1948 that led to the mass expulsion and displacement of...

A "Democratic Socialists of America" political slate centered on hating Israel

In 1889, a notable French artist named Adolphe Willette ran as an explicitly antisemitic candidate in the 9th arrondissement of Paris for legislative elections.The campaign poster included "The Jews are only powerful because we are on our knees! 30 million French people are their trembling slaves. It is not a question of religion, the Jews are a different race, hostile...

So @AmnestyUK loves boycotts. But only boycotts of Jews.

Amnesty UK tweeted:The [UK Anti-Boycott] bill gives special status to Israel, making it the only country in the world which cannot be excluded from its provisions, and treats Israel and territories it occupies in the same way, contrary to the UK’s long-established policy and international law.The bill is intended to stifle principled opposition to Israel’s illegal settlements...

Palestinian artists call to boycott Captain America

Remember last September when Israel haters went crazy with the announcement that the upcoming Captain America movie would include an Israeli superhero?Since then, the Israeli actress Shira Haas who plays the role of Sabra has apparently already done her scenes, so the campaign has now shifted from trying to pressure Marvel not to have the character to saying that the movie...

By their own success criteria, BDS has been a massive failure

The website for the BDS Movement has a FAQ section that asks, "What has the BDS movement achieved so far?"The very top achievement is listed as:BDS was a major factor behind the 46% drop in foreign direct investment in Israel in 2014, according to a UN report.How have direct investments in Israel done since then? If BDS is taking credit for the 46% drop in direct...

The more they campaign to boycott Israeli dates, the more dates Israel sells!

Anti-Israel organizations have been organizing boycotts of Israeli dates every Ramadan for years. Here's a campaign from 2008. This year there are anti-Israel date campaigns from CAIR, American Muslims for Palestine, Inminds and many other Muslim organizations. Let's see how effective these campaigns have been.In 2008, when these campaigns began, Israel was...

BDS leader Omar Barghouti admits BDS targets Jews, not "Zionists"

Last week, a bunch of "anti-Zionists" got together for a webcast that next to nobody watched about the dangers of "normalization" with Israel. One of the speakers was Omar Barghouti, who claims to be the founder of the BDS movement. He explains here what, exactly, BDS opposes when it says it opposes normalization with Israel, giving two conditions before anyone can meet...

The truth about BDS

I originally wrote this for publication in a major media site, but they do not publish from pseudonyms, so here it is.____________________________________________On December 4, Time magazine published an article partially entitled "Here’s What You Need to Know About BDS" by Sanya Mansoor. BDS stands for the demand to Boycott, Divest from and Sanction Israel. The Time...