The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign against Israel is ... working!

Thanks, Dodger. As you can see, Ms. CEO didn't deny a single claim made by the CJPME.

Why is AHAVA rebranding, I wonder?

CodePink (www.codepink4peace.org) has worked on its Stolen Beauty campaign for years.

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Why did Pepsi just do a big rebrand? Why did Tropicana? Why did Gatorade? Why did the Gap?

Low self-esteem?

Here's an example of the kind of pressure being exerted on the Bay to break the boycott, from [url=http://www.cjpme.org/DisplayDocument.aspx?DocumentID=1375]B'nai Brith Canada[/url].

And more from [url=http://www.cjpme.org/DisplayDocument.aspx?DocumentID=1377]BUYcott Israel[/url]

Palestinians Protest Canada's Ties with Jewish National Fund (JNF)

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11831.shtml

"Palestinians held a vigil outside the Canadian representative offices in Ramallah on Monday, 21 February, protesting Canada's ongoing relationship with the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The protesters urged the Canadian government to break ties with the Israeli land institution which has been a driving force behind the continued expulsion of Palestinians from their land since 1948.

In a memorandum to the Canadian ambassador to Israel, which was received by the representative office in Ramallah, Palestinian families originally from Latrun demanded Canadian officials meet with them and that the country divest from the JNF's preferred tax status. Uri Davis told Ma'an news that a court case in Canada against the JNF will soon follow..."

Paul Hunt Ambassador, Canadian Embassy in Israel

[email protected]

Excellent news! I now forgive Seeger for all his political misdemeanours!

And Theodore Bikel!!

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 the huge level of student support for the motion

Huge? The quorum at EU is 300, or approximately 1% of the student population. Should we pop over to one of the electoral reform threads and ask whether less than one percent of the electorate constitutes "huge" support?

I know it's a bit late, and this will probably not be the straw that breaks the back of Israeli apartheid and aggression, but the 2010 convention of the Prince Edward Island Federation of Labour concurred in the following [url=http://www.peifl.ca/Resolution%2013%20Palestine%202010.pdf]resolution[/url] proposed by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers:

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Resolution #13

2010 - Palestine

Submitted by Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Because there can be no lasting peace in Israel and Palestine without the
implementation of international law and respect for human rights; and

Because the so-called Israel Security Wall has been determined illegal by the World
Court; and

Because over 150 Palestinian civil society organizations, including the Palestinian
General Federation of Trade Unions have called for a campaign of boycott, divestment
and sanctions; and

Because Israel’s Operation Lead Cast in Gaza destroyed further infrastructure and in
2010 the Harper Government cut off funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA); therefore

The PEI Federation of Labour will:

1. Demand that the so-called security wall be dismantled;

2. Demand that Israel immediately withdraw from the occupied territories in
accordance with UN resolutions;

3. Demand that the Canadian government increase humanitarian aid to
Palestinians; and

4. Support the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions.

Committee Recommendation:

Concurrence X Non-concurrence __

Convention Decision X

I dunno, Catchfire, 300 is more people than decided on behalf of 34 million Canadians to continue the occupation of Afghanistan. And we're pretty sure we know how Canadians would vote if a referendum were held on the matter. I wonder how Snert feels about a handful of rhetoric-spewing self-serving political opportunists making decisions on his behalf, without even asking him? But, as he says, that's more an issue for the electoral reform threads.

I'm just looking at the trend over the years, and decades. Israel is going down. We just need to keep pushing.

Snert just reminds me of this contarian named Magoo over EnMasse. They could be twins, Unionist.

Re. Getting quorums. They were always difficult when I was involved with the TA union at Carleton. Only large meetings we ever hand what during contract negotiations and a strike looked iminent.

Shit, I thought that was my job...  [img]http://archive.rabble.ca/babble/tongue.gif[/img]

In other news, the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) has decided that 2012 is the year that they should "co-host" an international nursing conference in Jerusalem. The conference title, "Caring to Know, Knowing to Care" makes their description of Jerusalem most ironic:

"The special setting of the conference is Jerusalem, which is ranked as one of the ten most beautiful cities in the world; home to the three major religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It is a city rich in history and culture dating back over two thousand years. This unique city is a most appropriate venue to host this conference. On behalf of the Organizing Committee we are pleased to welcome you to take part in this meeting. We are expecting it to be an exciting professional as well as a social and personal experience."

They obviously don't care to know about the illegal settlements in the city, nor do they know to care about the fact that Palestinian nurses will be unable to attend their conference.

This nurses' association are guilty of some pretty scummy behaviour.

If you follow their link, "About Israel", it takes you straight to some [url=http://www.goisrael.com/tourism_eng]government of Israel tourist site[/url] and invites you to choose one of three links:

- General Interest

- Christian Interest

- Jewish Interest

So much for the nurses' association's hypocritical bullshit about beautiful Jerusalem, home of three religions.

Someone should really advise them to go fuck themselves, in my very humble opinion.

Don't be surprised of a Mossad asassination team shows up on babble in the near future.

IDF officers say special department has been created to monitor left-wing groups that the army sees as aiming to delegitimize Israel; department will work closely with government ministries.

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Military Intelligence officials said the initiative reflects an upsurge in worldwide efforts to delegitimize Israel and question its right to exist.

"The enemy changes, as does the nature of the struggle, and we have to boost activity in this sphere," an MI official said. "Work on this topic proceeds on the basis of a clear distinction between legitimate criticism of the State of Israel on the one hand, and efforts to harm it and undermine its right to exist on the other."

The new MI unit will monitor Western groups involved in boycotting Israel, divesting from it or imposing sanctions on it. The unit will also collect information about groups that attempt to bring war crime or other charges against high-ranking Israeli officials, and examine possible links between such organizations and terror groups.

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The four defendants are facing the charge of inciting anti-Semitism...

I'm curious what they might have said in promoting the boycott. Surely it can't be illegal in France to choose how to spend your money.

I wouldn't suggest there isn't.  But that doesn't mean people can't actually be anti-Semitic at the same time.  Maybe they used a term like "Israeli Apartheid" and that got conflated into "anti-Semitism".  Or maybe they said something worse. 

This isn't an accusation -- I really am just curious.  Because the third possibility -- that France charges people with hate crimes for simply boycotting products  -- doesn't seem that realistic to me.

Snert wrote:

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The four defendants are facing the charge of inciting anti-Semitism...

 

I'm curious what they might have said in promoting the boycott. Surely it can't be illegal in France to choose how to spend your money.

It seems similar to Canadian human rights cases in that all that's needed is a complaint filed by anyone who feels offended and that's it - there's no need for any other secret unreported real crime - Anti-semitism is being incited if someone says it is, apparently.

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Today, setting a worldwide precedent in the academic boycott of Israel, the University of Johannesburg (UJ) has effectively severed ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU). 

This was after UJ’s Senate rejected a last ditch motion by pro-Israeli lobbyists to have two separate bilateral agreements - one with a Palestinian University and another with an Israeli University. UJ chose instead to uphold its previous Senate Resolution that required taking leadership from Palestinian universities. Palestinian universities unanimously rejected any collaboration with BGU (in any form) and have come out in full support of the the academic boycott of Israel. UJ chose to respect this.

UJ is the first institution to officially sever relations with an Israeli university - a landmark moment in the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel campaign. Throughout the campaign, academics and international human rights activists have been anticipating this decision. This boycott decision, coming from a South African institution, is of particular significance. This has set a precedent and must start a domino boycott effect!

http://www.ujpetition.com/2011/03/boycott-of-israel-victory.html

Thank-you, Freedom 55, for momentarily returning this thread to the topic of the successes of the International BDS campaign.

Others should note that we already have [url=http://rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/ongoing-zionist-... threads[/url] devoted to discussion and news about the efforts of the Zionists to demonize criticism of Israel.  

Boycotting Israel...From Within

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Leehee Rothschild, 26, is one of the scores of Israelis who have answered the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS. Recently her Tel Aviv apartment was raided. While the police did this under the pretense of searching for drugs, she was taken to the station for a brief interrogation that focused entirely on politics.

"The person who came to release me [from interrogation] was an intelligence officer who said that he is in charge of monitoring political activity in the Tel Aviv area," Rothschild says. It was this officer who had requested the search warrant.

Since Operation Cast Lead, Israeli activists have reported increasing pressure from the police as well as General Security Services - known by their Hebrew acronym, Shabak.

The latter's mandate includes, among other things, the goal of maintaining Israel as a Jewish state, making those who advocate for democracy a target.

House raids, such as the one Rothschild was subjected to, are not uncommon, nor are phone calls from the Shabak.

"Obviously [the pressure] is nothing compared to what Palestinians are going through," Rothschild says. "But I think we're touching a nerve."

When asked about the proposed Boycott Law, Rothschild comments: "If the bill goes through, it will peel off, a little more, Israel's mask of democracy."

Largest Student Union in Europe Joins Boycott of Israel

http://endisraeliapartheid.blogspot.com/2011/05/largest-student-union-in...

"..The University of London Union has voted 10-1 to institute and campaign for BDS in support of Palestine. ULU is the largest students' union in Europe with over 120,000 members..'

Borrowed from a friend on Facebook:  Uncovered: Israel’s role in planned US lawsuit to fight BDS

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A group of pro-Israel activists, backed by StandWithUs, a national US pro-Israel US organization, is planning to take legal action to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its historic decision to boycott Israeli products.

The Electronic Intifada has obtained a copy of a 31 May 2011 letter sent to the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op in Olympia, Washington, threatening "expensive" legal action if the pro-Israel activists' "demands" to end the boycott of Israeli products are not met.

Other documents, supported by interviews, confirm that the Israeli government has taken part in discussions about, and been given advance knowledge of, the planned lawsuit and another planned action against Evergreen State College in Olympia in response to Palestine solidarity activism by students.

Evergreen State is noted for being the school attended by Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli occupation soldier operating a bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in March 2003.

These developments indicate new, even more aggressive tactics by pro-Israel organizations to suppress, deter and malign any form of Palestine-related dissent, protest or solidarity action.

The copyright claim was made by agents of the rock band Journey, whose music was heard in the video.

Perhaps it's time to add Journey to the [url=http://rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/performers-and-i... of performers to be boycotted[/url].