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Ben and Jerry's sells to lots of countries that commit human rights abusesnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 06 Jul 04:45 AM Ben and Jerry's is suing it Like   Tweet   Ben and Jerry's sells to lots of countries that commit human rights abuses noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 06 Jul 04:45 AM Ben and Jerry's is suing its own parent company Unilever for selling rights to manufacture its products to an Israeli company. When the Unilever announced the deal, Ben and Jerry's said that "We continue to believe it is inconsistent with Ben & Jerry's values for our ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. " Here is a list of countries that Ben and Jerry's happily sells its products to up until last year: I did a quick survey of the human rights records of some of these countries, based on NGO reports and the US State Department. Here are some results, and the list of human rights abuses is far from complete. Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people comprise 29 percent of Australia's adult prison population, but just 3 percent of the national population. Austria Excessive use of force by police; asylum seekers deported Bahamas Death penalty, mistreatment of migrants, discrimination against LGBTQ+ Belgium Racial profiling by the police, inhumane prisons Brazil In 2020, police killed 6,416 people. More than half of the victims were young Black men. Czech Republic Roma children experience discriminatory segregation in schools Dominican Republic Unlawful or arbitrary killings by government security forces; criminalization of abortion Estonia...Read More 07/05 Links Pt2: Antisemitism envoy Lipstadt sees Jew-hatred declining in Mideast, rising in US; Lessons of Ben & Jerry's: Boycotting Israel isn't low-risk noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 05 Jul 05:00 PM From Ian: Antisemitism envoy Lipstadt sees Jew-hatred declining in Mideast, rising in US On the heels of a landmark trip to Saudi Arabia, the newly sworn-in United States special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, Prof. Deborah Lipstadt, said Tuesday at Jerusalem's Hebrew University that "there is a change afoot in this region." She made her comments at the forum "New Tools in Combating Contemporary Antisemitism," which was jointly held by the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel's Foreign Ministry, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Diaspora Ministry. "For too many decades, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia was a great exporter of Jew-hatred, but what I found is something quite different, something that has changed there dramatically in the last few years," Lipstadt said, noting that the kingdom has also begun to implement changes in religious laws and the position of women in the country. "I met with the heads and staffs of embassies focused on combating violent extremism, focused on interfaith dialogue, including the Muslim World League, whose secretary-general visited Auschwitz in 2020," Lipstadt said. "We heard from a number of people who seemed willing to divide between the geopolitical crisis as it stands here in Israel vis-à-vis the Palestinians and the fact that antisemitism is something separate and apart. "These are important first steps...Read More Elder comix: Hijacking means something different now noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 05 Jul 03:00 PM * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More Amnesty USA's "Israel-Palestinian" Twitter account never condemns terrorism, rails against "hasbara," accuses pro-Israel tweeters of being "paid trolls" noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 05 Jul 01:00 PM Amnesty USA maintains a Twitter account with the name IOTPA and the Amnesty logo. It describes itself as an unofficial account: "Amnesty International USA member leader team for Israel/OPT/Palestine. Views our own. Re-tweets should not be construed as a position of Amnesty International." It might not be official, but it sure shows how anti-Israel Amnesty USA is. Beyond that, it uses Amnesty's name and logo, without any apparent pushback from Amnesty International, so its tweets are tacitly approved by the larger organization. Over the past several months, Israel has experienced a terror wave where innocent civilians have been slaughtered in the streets. The victims are the sort of people that Amnesty claims to want to protect. IOTPA has not said a word about any of these attacks. In fact, one would need to look very hard to find any condemnations of any attacks on Israelis. The few attacks on Israelis I found were couched in terms of "but Israel is far worse." I found one condemnation of a Hamas bus bombing - in 2016. Not only that, but when these "human rights professionals" deign to mention any criticisms by Zionists, they usually dismiss them as "hasbara smear language." The folks at Amnesty USA are not shy about admitting that they are anti-Zionist. They just...Read More 07/05 Links Pt1: Iran bought illicit German tech that violated nuke deal; Russia orders Jewish Agency to stop all operations in country; I felt safer near Gaza than Highland Park -Israeli survivor of shooting noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 05 Jul 11:00 AM From Ian: Russia orders Jewish Agency to stop all operations in country - exclusive The Russian government has ordered the Jewish Agency to cease all operations inside the country, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The order was given in a letter received from the Russian Ministry of Justice earlier this week. Officials in the Jewish Agency confirmed that the letter was received but would not comment on the response that is currently under consideration in the organization's offices in Jerusalem in consultation with the Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister's Office. "As part of the work of the Jewish Agency's delegation in Russia, we are occasionally required to make certain adjustments, as required by authorities," the agency said in response to a query from the Post. "The contacts with the authorities take place continuously, with the aim of continuing our activities in accordance with the rules set by the competent bodies. Even nowadays, such a dialogue takes place." "People from the Jewish community have been feeling the Iron Curtain setting on them and they fear they won't be able to escape the country." Senior sources Israeli-Russian tension The order comes amid growing tension between Israel and Russia over Jerusalem's stance regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine and its policy of standing with Kyiv and its embattled leader Volodymyr Zelensky. On Monday, Russia's foreign ministry called strikes on Syria that...Read More Hamas Understands Israel Has A Means Of Deterrence That May Be Even Stronger Than Iron Dome (Daled Amos) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 05 Jul 09:15 AM By Daled Amos Last week, Israel announced plans to build an industrial zone next to Gaza, creating thousands of new jobs for Palestinian Arabs. This news comes at a time when the number of Palestinian Arabs working in Israel has been increasing. In an article for The Algemeiner, Elder of Ziyon notes data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics indicating that the number of Palestinian Arabs working in Israel has jumped: The number of Palestinian workers in Israel and the settlements skyrocketed from 153,000 to 204,000, an increase of 33% in a single quarter. Of those, the number of workers in settlements — which the Palestinian Authority opposes — went up from 22,4000 to 31,000, an increase of 38%. [emphasis added] Despite the PA's official disapproval of Arabs working in Judea and Samaria, historically they have had to admit that they cannot offer an alternative to employment in the settlements. Already in 2011, Shahar Saad, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Workers' Union stated that despite the desire to implement the decisions of the PA leadership regarding the boycott of products and workers in the settlements, the implementation of that...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company