The BDS Thread (Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions)

RLENT

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This thread is about information/news/etc related to the BDS movement to ensure justice for the Palestinian people by pressuring Israel to conform and abide by international law (which they routinely ignore), ending it's illegal occupation, and allowing the Palestinian people self-determination:

Students For Justice in Palestine @ Cornell:

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moose

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this link is for everyone seeking information on Antisemitisem in the US. understanding the truth about modern antisemitism is impotent for every American:

Anti-Semitism / Israel Divestment - MidEastTruth.com

you now have HUNDREDS of links on your fingertips to make an informed decision
keep it., follow it and denounce modern Antisemitism.
do not take a part of it, and require this site owners to disallow it.
 

RLENT

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and require this site owners to disallow it.
Perhaps they could appoint you to vet and approve any and all posts on the subject of Israel, it's policies, and conduct ... before anyone's posts are actually allowed to appear on the boards ...

Of course, rather than trying to stop the conversation, you could just actually try participating in it.

An Evening with Norman Finkelstein. Author of "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History":

 
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RLENT

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Part Two of An Evening with Norman Finkelstein. Author of "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History":


At roughly 12:30 into the above clip Dr. Finklestein speaks about the "New Anti-semitism" (or "Modern Anti-semitism"), it's origins, and it's true purpose.​
 
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OntarioVanMan

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If you don't cry for...feel sorry for.....believe all their claims, support the Jewish religion....you are Antisemitic.....interesting....

amazing the Jewish actually have a name all their own for this so called stuff....and had enough laws legislated on their behalf....where is the anti catholism laws, anti mormon laws.....gee whiz lets be fair to ALL religions....
 

OntarioVanMan

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Yep...all things being equal.....:rolleyes:

For Palestinian citizens, 1956 massacre is not a distant memory | +972 Magazine

This week, Palestinian citizens of Israel marked the 57th anniversary of the Kafr Qasim massacre, when an Israeli paramilitary unit shot dead 49 Arabs (almost half of whom were children) as they returned from their farms, unaware of the new military curfew that had been imposed on their village. The perpetrators served meager jail sentences, with several officers promoted upon their return to the security forces.

Although there has never been an incident as grave as the 1956 massacre, the legacies of Kafr Qasim are far from being a distant memory for the Palestinian community in Israel. This past month, Palestinians also marked the 13th anniversary of the October 2000 killings, when Israeli police shot 13 Palestinian citizens during protests against escalating military violence in the Occupied Territories. Despite years of vigorous advocacy and a landmark government commission issuing extensive recommendations, not a single police officer was brought to court. One of the killers even got a promotion in the security forces several years later.
 

OntarioVanMan

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Yep...all things being equal.....:rolleyes:

For Palestinian citizens, 1956 massacre is not a distant memory | +972 Magazine

This week, Palestinian citizens of Israel marked the 57th anniversary of the Kafr Qasim massacre, when an Israeli paramilitary unit shot dead 49 Arabs (almost half of whom were children) as they returned from their farms, unaware of the new military curfew that had been imposed on their village. The perpetrators served meager jail sentences, with several officers promoted upon their return to the security forces.

Although there has never been an incident as grave as the 1956 massacre, the legacies of Kafr Qasim are far from being a distant memory for the Palestinian community in Israel. This past month, Palestinians also marked the 13th anniversary of the October 2000 killings, when Israeli police shot 13 Palestinian citizens during protests against escalating military violence in the Occupied Territories. Despite years of vigorous advocacy and a landmark government commission issuing extensive recommendations, not a single police officer was brought to court. One of the killers even got a promotion in the security forces several years later.
 

Turtle

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this link is for everyone seeking information on Antisemitisem in the US. understanding the truth about modern antisemitism is impotent for every American:

Anti-Semitism / Israel Divestment - MidEastTruth.com

you now have HUNDREDS of links on your fingertips to make an informed decision
keep it., follow it and denounce modern Antisemitism.
do not take a part of it, and require this site owners to disallow it.
The problem with the charge of antisemitisem is that it has become the mamby-pamby political equivalent of homophobic, or of racist. If you don't agree with homosexuals and embrace them not merely as acceptable but as wonderful and heavenly, you're a homophobe. If you disagree with someone of another race over some issue, like if you disagree with Obama over Obamacare, you're a racist. If you don't embrace the Jewish people as the superior beings they are because they are God's Chosen People and believe that everything they do is not merely acceptable but the only way it should be done and is therefore right, proper and just, you're an antisemitic cretin (cretin, BTW, Latin origin: Chrīstiānus, or Christian, still human despite their deformities, and isn't that hilarious).

True antisemitisem is top-of-the-list deplorable. Politically motivated fake charges of antisemitisem is a close second.
 

OntarioVanMan

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The problem with the charge of antisemitisem is that it has become the mamby-pamby political equivalent of homophobic, or of racist. If you don't agree with homosexuals and embrace them not merely as acceptable but as wonderful and heavenly, you're a homophobe. If you disagree with someone of another race over some issue, like if you disagree with Obama over Obamacare, you're a racist. If you don't embrace the Jewish people as the superior beings they are because they are God's Chosen People and believe that everything they do is not merely acceptable but the only way it should be done and is therefore right, proper and just, you're an antisemitic cretin (cretin, BTW, Latin origin: Chrīstiānus, or Christian, still human despite their deformities, and isn't that hilarious).

True antisemitisem is top-of-the-list deplorable. Politically motivated fake charges of antisemitisem is a close second.

right on.....
 

RLENT

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By an overwhelming majority (66% to 34%), the American Studies Association national membership votes to adopt the boycott approved and recommended by the ASA National Committee:

Academic boycott of Israel passed by ASA membership votes 2-1 for academic boycott

And it's big enough news for the NYT to cover it:

Scholars’ Group Endorses an Academic Boycott of Israel - NYTimes.com

In other quarters there was the normal gnashing of teeth and cries of woe:

Israel's Defenders Glum as American Studies Association Votes on Boycott Resolution - Forward.com
 

RLENT

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And despite the NYT author's apparent attempt to spin that there is no Palestinian for the boycott (by referencing Abbas), the fact is that there is broad support in Palestinian civil society for such actions:

PACBI-Palestinian BDS Call
 

RLENT

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we BOTH have thousands of links...it will never end...your choice.
My choice is to start threads and post on subjects of a political nature which I feel might be of some interest to at least some members of the community. That's something I have always done - and anyone knows me knows that I am not politically correct and I do not shy away from controversy.

You of course are entirely free to do that yourself - starting your own threads - and making your own posts.

If you have something that's actually relevant to add to a thread I start (and actually addresses the topic), or a post I make, I welcome your input and look forward to any dialog and debate we might have.

If on the other hand, you are threatening to flood the threads I start with spam whose relevance to the topic of the thread is marginial at best (if at all), then I probably would not look too favorably on it. Hopefully the powers that be would recognize your acts for exactly what they would be: an effort to stifle and suppress a conversation that you would really prefer not be taking place.
 
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