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Thread #153638   Message #3651171
Posted By: Jim Carroll
15-Aug-14 - 06:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
Subject: RE: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
"You will not find a single post on this forum in which I support Hamas"
You are wasting your time with this serial liar Steve - he has retreated into the cowards-hole of "all critics of Israel are Antisemitics and supporters of Hams" he's not even open to an offer of a donation if he provides evidence for such statements.
I really wouldn't bother - let him go on with his example of what these pro-Israel shower-of-shits look like.
These morons are indulging in self-harm on behalf of the Jewish people - a typical example is the 'Tricycle Theatre' fiasco in London.
The theatre is one of the most progressive in the country and I was disturbed to read that it had "banned the Jewish Film Festival' it was due to hold there, according to the Israli propaganda machine and its supporters.
It turns out that The Festival was receiving Israeli Government funding and, as the Theatre wished to make its feelings know over what was happening in Gaza, and to disassociate itself from anything Israeli at the present time.
The Management asked the Festival Organisers to refuse the Grant, in return, they offered to recompense in full the loss.
Result - the organisers refused and they pulled out - and the Tricycle became "Antisemitic" and has been reported so ever since.
When I heard of the "ban" I was extremely upset, and were several Jewish friends in London - had I still been a member I would have resigned.
These morons will continue to attempt to justify the slaughter that has taken place byblaming the victims and making criticicism of Israel of Israel a no-go area - an example of how they are attempting to do so in Israel:
Jim Carroll

THE IRISH TIMES Friday, August 15,2014
ISRAEL BANS RIGHTS GROUP FROM NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAMME
Israel has disqualified its fore¬most human rights group as a volunteer option for youths who choose civilian national service over military conscription, officials said yesterday, citing the group's criticism of the Gaza offensive.
The government move against B'Tselem, while unlikely to affect the group's operations, reflected growing anger within Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's rightist coalition at Israeli activism it sees as stoking pro-Palestinian sympathy.
Hoping to close ranks with minority Arab citizens and ultra-Orthodox Jews exempted from the draft for ideological reasons, and to accommodate pacifists, Israel has been sponsoring alternative service in public bodies in areas such as education and health.
Civilian national service volunteers have their living expenses covered by the state and later become eligible for benefits akin to those extended to discharged soldiers.
No more staff
The government's Authority for National-Civic Service said it would stop providing staff for B'Tselem after the group argued that some military strikes in Gaza, where 1,945 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have died in a month-old war, were illegal. B'Tselem currently has one national service volunteer, authority director Bar-Shalom Jerbi told Israel's Channel 2 TV.
"The volunteers represent one camp, in that they want to contribute to the country, to society and to their community," Mr Jerbi said. "B'Tselem crossed the line in wartime [by] campaigning and inciting against the state of Israel and the Israel Defence Force, which is the most moral of armies."
B'Tselem director Haggai Elad, responding in the broadcast, described the ban as politically motivated and undemocratic. "We act out of a deep commitment to the values of the society we are part of," Mr Elad said, calling on Uri Orbach, the government minister in charge of the Authority for National-Civic Service, to overturn the decision.
Mr Orbach, a member of the ultranationalist Jewish Home party in Mr Netanyahu's government, was unmoved.
"Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists," he said, referring to Hamas-led Gaza militants who have killed 64 Israeli soldiers and three civilians inside the Jewish state.
"An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds."
Trim funding
Rightist lawmakers have been advancing legislation to trim foreign funding for advocacy groups they view as encouraging international censure of Israeli policies toward Palestinians. Left-wing lawmakers fear an attempt to stifle dissent.
An investigation by the UN Human Rights Council into possible war crimes committed by either side has been dismissed as a "kangaroo court" by Israel.
During the fighting, Israel's state broadcaster rejected a B'Tselem request to air names of killed Palestinian children. The group appealed to the high court of justice, which upheld the broadcaster's decision.
Meanwhile, a new, five-day truce between Israel and Ha¬mas appeared to be holding yesterday despite a shaky start, after both sides agreed to give Egyptian-brokered peace negotiations in Cairo more time to try to end the war. - (Reuters)