Posted on 08/06/2013 6:01:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Pro-Israel activists have derided the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) anti-Israel movement, after a widely-trumpeted “success” in their campaign to isolate Israel was revealed to have been fabricated. …
Last week, Electronic Intifada, a blog aligned with the BDS movement, announced its latest “victory,” claiming that Delta Air Lines had decided to stop serving a snack produced in the Barkan Industrial Zone, due to its location in Samaria. …
Veteran Israeli activist Avi Mayer, however, was unconvinced, and promptly discovered that claims of a boycott were completely false. In a letter to Mayer (which he promptly published on his Facebook page), the airline explained that the snack in question—a vanilla halva bar—had indeed been removed, but only as a result of “a normal catering cycle and review,” in which the in-flight menu regularly changes. But there was more. Not only were reports of a boycott unfounded, but Delta’s representative explained that more than 1,000 Israeli-made items are “sourced by our local caterer,” adding: “the snack (fruit) that replaced the bar is grown locally in Israel. Delta makes a practice of sourcing local goods for catering in most international markets we serve.” …
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Well, that's a load off my mind!
Hey, if the libs are selling Israeli holdings, it looks like a good time to buy.
The Israelis are out in front on biomedical, including nerve cell regeneration, and they just discovered a few cubic feet of natural gas off their shoreline.
Dang, now I want a Halvah bar
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