Posted on 02/03/2019 3:03:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Israeli government released a report Sunday claiming to reveal close links between the Palestinian-led boycott movement against Israel and militant groups.
Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry, which leads the country’s efforts against the boycott movement, said it uncovered extensive connections between pro-boycott groups and activists affiliated with Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement dismissed the report as “wildly fabricated.”
The 80-page report claims several dozen current or former members of the Palestinian groups, both designated terrorist organizations by the U.S., European Union and Israel, are involved in BDS activity through Palestinian and international NGOs. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
All of a sudden the AP needs lots of proof before it can report a story as factual.
I hate the BDS movement,with a passion, however some of the “anti-BDS laws” they are trying to cram through in the USA are fundamental violations of freedom of association.
I think the best way to defend Israel is to defend the cesspit know as the UN so Israel’s hands can be untied and they can deal with the terrorists on their borders uninhibited.
If the “Palestinians” are boycotting Israel, then Israel should stop providing their food, water, electricity, gas, healthcare, etc.
Another piece of AP anti-Israel piece of piss ass reporting if we can even call it “reporting”.
There should have been “examples” of who/what the Israelis said were links between the BDS group and terrorist groups.
If anyone has read the pioneering, often undercover reporting of Lee Kaplam, in the past, you would see how the BDS movement in the U.S, esp. by its leaders, had ties to Hamas, Fatah, etc.
The Left and their Liberal dupes have been carping about “the rise of anti-Semitism in the US” over the past couple of years (the Wash. Post just had a big piece on “hate crimes”) and have blamed much of it on the “Far Right”.
However, almost all of the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish incidents on American campuses came from BDS groups and affiliated supporters, esp. at Berkeley.
The only news about Israel the AP likes to publish is “fake news”, “slanted news”, or “coverup news”. Might as well change their name to the “All Propaganda” service.
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That's surprising, I thought they want peace with Israel.
“A Jewish state in Palestine in any shape or form cannot but contravene the basic rights of the indigenous Palestinian population and perpetuate a system of racial discrimination that ought to be opposed categorically….Definitely, most definitely we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No Palestinian, rational Palestinian, not a sell-out Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
–Omar Barghouti (co-founder)
of the peaceful Barghouti clan of Ramallah
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