Via FrontPageMag: Rep. Mark Pocan (D., Wis.) has been identified as the anonymous member of Congress who reserved official Capitol Hill space for an anti-Israel forum that is being organized by several organizations that support boycotts of the Jewish state, according to congressional sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. Pocan had also met with a member of a notorious terrorist group. According to a newly published report in The Weekly Standard, five US Congressmen met last spring with Shawan Jabarin, who has alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a recognized terrorist organization.
Read More +Via Spectator-UK: So alongside being the only country that pop stars refuse to play in, and the only country whose academics are boycotted on Western campuses, and the only country whose dancers and violinists cannot perform in cities like London without gangs of people screaming them down, now Israel is the only country that has been politically punished by holiday app cum conscience Airbnb. Why is it OK to rent a holiday apartment in Turkish-settled Northern Cyprus but not in Israeli-settled parts of the West Bank? What’s more, you can still get Airbnb places in Turkey, the state that has
Read More +Via JPost: European countries and the EU are providing millions of euros to organizations promoting the BDS movement, Israeli Public Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan will say during his current visit to Germany and Italy. State funding from Europe for organizations involved in BDS is “one of the main funding sources of the movement,” his office said. He will call on European leaders to stop all official funding to NGOs that promote BDS or have links with terrorist groups.
Read More +Airbnb Faces Israeli Class-Action Lawsuit for Delisting Israeli Communities in the West Bank
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Via Reuters: Lawyers launched a class action lawsuit in Jerusalem District Court on Thursday against Airbnb after it withdrew listings of Israeli communities in the West Bank. Ma’anit Rabinovich from the West Bank community of Kida, who offers guest room rentals, said through her attorneys that the move “represents especially grave, offensive and outrageous discrimination.” It is “part of the long war being conducted by organizations (of which a clear majority are anti-Semitic) against the State of Israel in its entirety, and against Israelis living in settlements in particular.”
Read More +More Jew-hatred, this time from the Quakers in Britain. Via Board of Deputies of British Jews: Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl has condemned the decision of Quakers in Britain to divest from, in its words, “any companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine.” Marie said: “The appalling decision of the Friends House hierarchy to divest from just one country in the world – the only Jewish state – despite everything else going on around the globe, shows the dangers of the obsessive and tunnel-visioned approach that a narrow clique of church officials have taken in recent years.”
Read More +Via Shoebat Foundation: Her name is Chloe Valdary and in this video, she drives a point home that desperately needs to resonate with more people. The incremental increase of anti-Semitism in the years leading up to the extermination of six million Jews during World War Two is back. Valdary has partnered with Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) to raise more awareness of just how dangerous the times are in which we live. As we have often stated, Hitler / Nazi comparisons are often overdone but when you’re comparing Islamic fundamentalism to Nazism, it’s spot-on. Here is more information via
Read More +New pariah on the block
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Excerpted from The Economist: The campaign for sanctions against Israel is growing. But it faces resistance and is less effective than it looks. For once, Israel’s critics and cheerleaders agree on something: the Jewish state risks greater international isolation. Pro-Israel groups such as NGO Monitor and the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs say a new assault is on the way. In the other camp, Shir Hever of the Alternative Information Centre, an Israeli-Palestinian activist group in Jerusalem, says that advocating a boycott is no longer always treated as anti-Semitism. Both sides have a motive to exaggerate such claims. But “boycotts,
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