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The @Guardian lies about Texas BDS law, saying it "bans" boycotting Israelnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 08 Dec 05:45 AM The Guardian says: For mor Like   Tweet   The @Guardian lies about Texas BDS law, saying it "bans" boycotting Israel noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 08 Dec 05:45 AM The Guardian says: For more than two decades, Texan civil engineer Rasmy Hassouna was a contractor for the city of Houston. Hassouna has consulted the city on soil volatility in the nearby Gulf of Mexico – a much needed service to evaluate the structural stability of houses and other buildings. He was gearing up to renew his government contract when a particular legal clause caught his eye: a provision that effectively banned him or his company, A&R Engineering and Testing, Inc, from ever protesting the nation of Israel or its products so long as his company was a partner with the city of Houston. For Hassouna – a 59-year-old proud Palestinian American – it was a huge shock. "I came here and thought I was a free man. It's not anybody's business what I do or what I say, as long as I'm not harming anybody," he told the Guardian. "Were you lying all this time? If I don't want to buy anything at WalMart, who are you to tell me not to shop at WalMart? Why do I have to pledge allegiance to a foreign country?" Everything here is a lie. There is no ban. The Texas law says: A governmental entity may not enter into a contract with a company for goods or services unless the contract contains a written verification from the company that it...Read More 12/07 Links Pt2: From Wiley to the Oxford St attacks, some people always think Jews deserve it; Academic Freedom Is Under Siege by Anti-Israel Politics noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 07 Dec 06:00 PM From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The BBC has questions to answer With the BBC having doubled down on its claim of "a slur about Muslims", and with more and more people listening to the video and failing to hear any such slur or indeed make out any words at all, disgust and dismay in the Jewish community are growing. Parents of the teenagers have accused the BBC of "demonising" their children. The Board of Deputies has called on the BBC to apologise. It said: The BBC thought that they heard a slur in English. What they were actually hearing was a distressed Jewish man speaking in Hebrew appealing for help. Oh — and while the BBC website reported as fact a slur about Muslims can also be heard from inside the bus (which no-one else seems to have heard), it described the antisemitic attack itself (which everyone watching the video can clearly see) as merely allegations [my emphasis] of antisemitic abuse directed at Jewish passengers on a bus. Today, the ever-decent former Labour MP Lord Austin writes in the Telegraph: I have always defended the BBC, but can't imagine an incident involving any other group being reported in this way. It needs to listen to people from the Jewish community and look at this very carefully. We can't have people thinking that incidents of racism are handled differently depending on who the perpetrators and victims might be. The demonisation of Israel leads to racist...Read More Elder Comix: The BBC finds racism noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Dec 04:00 PM * * * * * * ...Read More The "Jewish Faculty Network" - Canadian group formed specifically to fight the IHRA noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Dec 02:00 PM Last March, 140 faculty members in Canada signed a statement against the IHRA definition of antisemitism. As with literally every other criticism of the IHRA Working Definition, they do not mention that it explicitly contradicts what they claim it says. We write as Jewish faculty from across Canadian universities and colleges with deep concern regarding recent interventions on our campuses relating to Israel and Palestine. Addressing all forms of racism and discrimination, including antisemitism, is imperative at this historical moment. Among the signatories, many share family histories profoundly and intimately shaped by the Holocaust. We write out of a strong commitment to justice, which for some of us is vital to an ethical Jewish life. We add our voices to a growing international movement of Jewish scholars to insist that university policies to combat antisemitism are not used to stifle legitimate criticisms of the Israeli state, or the right to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We recognize that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is a legitimate, non-violent form of protest. While not all of us endorse the BDS movement we oppose equating its support with antisemitism. We also are deeply disturbed by the upsurge of antisemitic acts in recent years which display painfully familiar forms of antisemitism. We are specifically concerned with recent lobbying on our campuses...Read More 12/07 Links Pt1: Does the UN have a moral compass?; Netherlands Court Rejects Lawsuit Against Israel's Gantz Over 2014 Gaza Strike; Why an airstrike on Syria's Latakia Port matters noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 07 Dec 12:00 PM From Ian: David Singer: Does the UN have a moral compass? The term "West Bank" was coined in 1950 to designate 4% of the territory of former Palestine west of the Jordan River - called "Judea and Samaria" for the previous 3000 years - which was unified with an additional 78% of the territory of former Palestine east of the Jordan River - called Transjordan - to form a new territorial entity renamed "Jordan". Wennesland's use of the stand-alone term "West Bank" without any reference to its 3000 years old historic name indicates the immoral depths to which the UN and its officials have sunk. After all - the UN itself had used the term "Judea and Samaria" in Resolution 181 (II) on 29 November 1947: "The boundary of the hill country of Samaria and Judea starts on the Jordan River at the Wadi Malih south-east of Beisan" The UN Special Commission on Palestine also used the term "Judea and Samaria" in its 1947 Report: "...the interior of the country is very mountainous with the hills of Judea and Samaria in the centre" Removing any possible identification with Jews and Jewish history by expunging any reference to "Judea and Samaria" – the Jewish People's ancient and biblical heartland – exposes the UN's anti-Jewish bias in papering over Jewish claims to this disputed territory in favour of an invented fake pro-Arab claim made for the first time in history in the 1964 PLO Charter. "The Palestinian Authority" On January...Read More Has Deborah Lipstadt Undercut Both Herself And Future Antisemitism Envoys? (Daled Amos) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Dec 10:15 AM By Daled Amos When Holocaust deniers are not going around denying that the Holocaust ever happened or claiming that it is exaggerated, they like to make comparisons between Israel and Nazis. In an interview in 2011 with Haaretz, the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt called these sorts of comparisons "Holocaust abuse": Renowned Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt says that American and Israeli politicians who invoke the Holocaust for contemporary political purposes are engaging in "Holocaust abuse", which is similar to "soft-core denial" of the Holocaust... "When you take these terrible moments in our history, and you use it for contemporary purposes, in order to fulfill your political objectives, you mangle history, you trample on it," she said. [emphasis added] Strong words. And Lipstadt knows what she is talking about. After all, this past July Biden nominated Lipstadt as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. So how did Lipstadt react a little over a month later, when Biden was on the presidential campaign and said about Trump: He's sort of like Goebbels. You say the lie long enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes common knowledge...Read More The many contradictions within the "anti-Zionist not antisemitic" crowd noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Dec 08:00 AM Tweeter Sarahoftheworld has a brilliant thread of positions that "anti-Zionists" have which contradict each other. She starts off asking, "Are Jews European colonizers or are Arabs semites too and therefore can't be antisemitic?" She goes on: - Judaism is just a religion but Israel is an ethnostate. - Mizrahim are 'Arab Jews' but Israelis are appropriating Arab cuisine. - Judaism have nothing to do with Zionism but Zionists base their claims on Jewish scripture. - Ashkenazim are fake jews but the Neturei Karta are invited to every anti-Israel rally because they're the "real Jews." - Jews are violating human rights when praying at ancient sites but there should be a one-state solution with religious freedom for all. - It is antisemitic to identify all Jews with Israel but it is ok to ask all Jews their thoughts on Israel/Palestine before they are allowed in your spaces. Others added more: - UN resolutions prove that Israel is evil, but the resolution that called for the creation of a Jewish state has no validity. - Jewish ties to the Temple Mount are an obstacle to peace but Muslim ties to Al Aqsa is an essential part of Palestinian statehood. - Welcoming refugees is a moral duty and opposing immigration is immoral, but Jews had no right to immigrate to Palestine and Israel because it went against what the Arabs wanted. - The Arab world has one unified identity but the Palestinians are a distinct and...Read More    ©2021 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company