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Wednesday, December 04, 2024

BDS scrambling to find reasons to keep boycotting Sabra Hummus after it is bought completely by PepsiCo

The BDS group CJPME, "Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East," has a fact sheet on why they boycott Sabra Hummus - because it is half owned by an Israeli company Strauss which supports the IDF. At the end, they write:The boycott of Sabra will end once it is no longer owned by the Strauss Group, and thus is no longer complicit in the oppression, violence and...

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...

Real human rights and fake human rights

The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights just released its report of human rights violations by Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and Gaza in 2022 (it has not yet been released in English.)Its section on violations against Palestinian human rights activists is summarized:Concerning human rights defenders, the independent commission said: Human rights...

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...

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...

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...