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Defeating Hamas in America
By Caroline Glick
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In Midst of Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis, Left Angles for Votes On Monday, the Puerto Rican government defaulted on a $422 million debt payment. Altogether, the U.S. territory is sitting in a $72 billion hole. In the past, retirees placed their hard-earned dollars in Puerto Rican bonds because they were tax-free. But last year, the island's governor declared that creditors should "share the sacrifices" with the struggling government. The Republican Congress moved to head off the problem by trying to establish oversight to restructure the debt. Naturally, however, Democrats only see an opportunity to score political points before Election Day.
Young Puerto Ricans are fleeing the island, The Wall Street Journal writes. If Democrats somehow get this demographic on the government dole — maybe if the island defaulted on the whole $72 billion — they could tip presidential elections in states like Florida, where many Puerto Ricans end up. Of course, it wasn't too long ago that Democrats were toying with the idea of making Puerto Rico the 51st state.
House Speaker Paul Ryano faces opposition from the conservative Freedom Caucus because it considers proposed legislation a "bailout" for Puerto Rico. But the bill doesn't have any federal funds flowing to the island, The Hill reports. In the midst of the discord, House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi sees an opportunity to attack the GOP for dysfunctional leadership.
"The Speaker has an overriding, shall we say, principle, which is the committees shall do the work," Pulosi said. "But at some point, there's going to have to be a moment where there's got to be a leadership decision — that this is as good as it gets and this is what we're going to take to the floor. Hopefully, that will be very soon." She wants to demonstrate what a Democrat-controlled House would look like ahead of the election. Meanwhile, she is one of the lawmakers primarily responsible for consistently and dramatically increasing the national debt. The big takeaway from this Puerto Rican debt fiasco is that debt actually is crushing — it's not some sort of theoretical exercise to talk about the trillions of dollars the federal government owes. The time to pay the piper eventually comes. -The Patriot Post
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liar-Clinton Faux-Apologizes for Threatening Coal Jobs
liar-Hilly Clinton has a knack for lying to the faces of the people who have been hurt by her policies. She did it with the families of the men killed in Benghazi, and she lied to a man laid off because he worked in the coal industry, an industry the Left considers not only expendable but condemnable. On Monday, the former coal miner accosted Clinton at a West Virginia campaign stop, asking liar-Clinton about her comments in March when she warned, "We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." The man wanted to know: How could she say something like that and then tell voters in places like West Virginia that she's their friend?
"What I said was [taken] totally out of context from what I meant," liar-Clinton backpedaled. "It was a misstatement, because what I was saying is that the way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs." But moments after she told the audience in March that coal jobs would be destroyed, she continued, "Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels." So her threat was neither out of context nor a misstatement.
liar-Clinton did apologize to the coal miner — for the way conservatives interpreted her comments. "I do feel a little bit sad and sorry that I gave folks the reason or the excuse to be so upset with me," liar-Clinton said, "because that is not what I intended at all."
The day before this confrontation, liar-Clinton told the attendees at an NAACP dinner in Detroit, "We cannot let Barack nObama's legacy fall into Donald liar-Trump's hands. We can't let all the hard work and progress we have achieved over the last seven and a half years be torn away."
What is that legacy? In 2009, nObama promised the price of electricity "would necessarily skyrocket" thanks to his policies of pursuing "green" energy at the expense of fossil fuels. What followed next was the systematic destruction of the coal industry through regulation. Why do we want four more years of that? Why give liar-Clinton the chance to make good on nObama's promise to hamstring the energy sector of our nation?
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Is Smart Gun Tech the Next Gun Control Ruse?
Barack nObama recently took to social media to announce "some important progress we've made to protect our communities from gun violence," including "jumpstart[ing] the development of smart gun technology." The details were unveiled in a new 17-page "Report to the President Outlining a Strategy to Expedite Deployment of Gun Safety Technology" by the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Defense. According to the report, "Over the next six months, the Administration will partner with state, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies to establish the specific conditions under which they would consider purchasing firearms with advanced gun safety technology. This partnership will result in the drafting of voluntary 'baseline specifications' that will outline — for the first time — a clear description of what law enforcement expects from smart gun technology, particularly with regards to reliability, durability, and accuracy."
Smart gun technology is, of course, a hotly debated topic. Intriguing though it is, because the technology is relatively new it raises concerns over foreseeable issues like software malfunctioning. John Sexton over at Hot Air speculates that nObama's "goal is to use the buying power of law enforcement agencies to make the production of smart guns appealing to manufacturers." He furthermore observes that "it's not going to prevent street criminals from getting their hands on one of the millions of cheaper, regular guns already out there," meaning "the impact this will have on violent crime would likely be minimal unless the government takes the next step and mandates the technology." (And even then, making one more thing illegal isn't suddenly going to stop crime.) Democrats scoff at such an assertion — that is until they "evolve" a few years down the road. Their contempt for the Second Amendment takes precedence over anything and everything, so it's inevitably that one day they will use smart gun technology as a means of gun control in the name of "national security" and "public health." And if liar-Hilly Clinton enters the Oval Office in January 2017, you know she'll pursue nObama's anti-gun crusade.
CONGRESS? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING
CONGRESS! Rogue nObama EPA Stashes
Billions in Slush Fund Accounts
By Ethan Barton
By Ethan Barton
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{directorblue.blogspot.com} ~ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials have accumulated at least $6.3 billion in more than 1,300 obscure spending accounts akin to slush funds that are essentially beyond congressional, media and public scrutiny... The accounts – which were created through EPA’s Superfund program – are not technically secret because the agency officially acknowledges their existence. But getting concrete details about deposits and expenditures is extremely difficult. The EPA deposited more than $6.3 billion into an estimated 1,308 special accounts between 1990 and 2015, according to the agency’s website, and has spent more than half of the total. The agency doesn’t publicly report individual special account balances or expenses... http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2016/05/congress-we-dont-need-no-stinking.html
VIDEO: (voice) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHxFnJPDiAk
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liar-Hilly’s Turn: Gets Ripped By Laid Off
Coal Worker At West Virginia Roundtable
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Earlier today we reported that former president liar-Bubba Clinton got booed during a Sunday campaign stop in West Virginia. On Monday it was liar-Hilly’s turn... It seems that the people of West Virginia have not forgiven Ms. liar-Clinton for bragging how she was going to take away their jobs. Back in March, liar-Hilly Clinton infamously stated on CNN that, “We have to move away from coal,” and she promised if elected she was, “going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” At a roundtable in West Virginia this afternoon, Bo Copley, a 39-year-old father who lost his job as a foreman in the struggling coal industry handed the Democratic candidate a picture of his kids as he confronted liar-Clinton asking, how she could pledge to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business and “then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend?”... http://lidblog.com/hillarys-turn-gets-ripped-in-trip-to-west-virginia-by-laid-off-coal-worker/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=3678fb0bbc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-3678fb0bbc-291705165
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12 years after disappearance,
Israeli 'spy' on way home
by David Rosenberg
by David Rosenberg
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ On Monday, Bargas Awidat, an Israeli Druze student held in Syria for the past 12 years, was abruptly released from prison and is now making his way back to Israel... In 2002 Awidat travelled to Syria to study dentistry. In 2004, however, he disappeared without a trace, leaving his family and Israeli authorities searching for clues. It was only in 2010 that Syria admitted that it was holding him prisoner in the Al Adra prison complex in Damascus. Awidat, now 47, was accused of working as an Israeli spy, a claim he denies...
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In 6 Months Since Budget Deal:
Debt Up More Than $1 Trillion
by Terence P. Jeffrey
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{cnsnews.com} ~ In the six months that have passed since then-retiring House Speaker John backstabber-Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell cut a budget deal with President Barack nObama... that suspended the legal limit on the federal debt until March 15, 2017, the federal debt has increased by more than $1 trillion. The Senate passed “The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015” with a vote held in the early morning hours of Friday, Oct. 30. nObama signed it on Monday, Nov. 2. At the close business on Oct. 30, 2015, the total federal debt was $18,152,981,685,747.52. By the close of business on April 28, 2016—the latest date for which the Treasury has published the number--the total federal debt was $19,186,207,744,589.55. That is an increase of $1,033,226,058,842.03... http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/6-months-budget-deal-debt-more-1-trillion
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Hundreds Of Pages of TTIP Agreement Leaked
by Derrick Broze
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{activistpost.com} ~ According to newly leaked documents, the United States and the European Union are divided on certain agreements to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)... After releasing the documents, Greenpeace Netherlands stated: These documents make clear the scale and scope of the trade citizens of the United States and the European Union are being asked to make in pursuit of corporate profits. It is time for the negotiations to stop, and the debate to begin. Should we be able to act when we have reasonable grounds to believe our health and wellbeing is at risk, or must we wait until the damage is done?... http://www.activistpost.com/2016/05/hundreds-of-pages-of-ttip-agreement-leaked.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=366a32501d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-366a32501d-387888649
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The Left Declares War on Christian Values…
by Dr. Michael Brown
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{gopusa.com} ~ Is there an increasing hostility to Christian values and religious freedoms in our country today? Here are seven representative examples, all from the last few weeks. Judge for yourself… 1. The NCAA announced that it will not hold any men’s and women’s Final Four basketball events in a city that “discriminates” against anyone based on sexual orientation or gender identity. In its official statement, the NCAA declared: “The board’s decision follows the recent actions of legislatures in several states, which have passed laws allowing residents to refuse to provide services to some people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. While proponents of the laws focus on how they protect religious beliefs, critics have voiced concerns that they create an environment of sanctioned discrimination.”...
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David Cameron’s Ex-Right Hand Man Is Sick of Massive, Bureaucratic Policy Proposals
by Morgan Chalfant
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Steve Hilton, former senior adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron, is not buying the appeal of massive, expensive federal programs aimed at solving poverty and other critical challenges facing the United States and the world... Hilton, an architect of the British Conservative Party’s return to power before he resettled in the United States, favors more localized, personal solutions to our nation’s problems like those he says he helped implement while serving as Cameron’s aide. Hilton has been immersed in American politics since moving to California four years ago with his wife and family. Hilton teaches at Stanford University and runs Crowdpac, a two-year-old start-up aimed to make it easier for regular people to learn about and support politicians and run for office themselves...
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Generals Warn of Russian Aggression As liar-Trump
Cozies Up To Putin
by Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ While Republican presidential candidate Donald J. liar-Trump is talking about cooperation with Russia, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that one of America’s top generals, NATO Supreme commander General Philip Breedlove, is saying that the United States and its allies have to immediately address Russian military aggression... “We see that Russia has not accepted the hand of partnership but has chosen a path of belligerence,” Breedlove is quoted by the paper as saying. “We need to readdress where we’re heading.” Breedlove is retiring as NATO supreme commander and commander of U.S. European Command. By contrast, liar-Trump recently gave a foreign policy address that completely ignored Russian aggression in Ukraine, leading to a warm reception in Moscow for the Republican candidate... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/generals-warn-of-russian-aggression-as-trump-cozies-up-to-putin/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email050316&utm_medium=email
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London About to Elect Muslim Mayor
by Paul Bois
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Just as western Europe is finally coming to realize the threat Islam poses on their society, the great city of London is about to elect a Muslim mayor... Representing Britain's far-left Labour Party, 45-year-old Sadiq Khan currently leads in the polls over his Conservative Party rival Zac Goldsmith by a total of 20-points, 60 to 40 percent. According to Breitbart London, Khan's elevation in the polls come just one week after one of his "most prominent backers Ken Livingstone was implicated in a Hitler/anti-Semitism scandal," but Khan's extremism goes beyond just hanging out with a few bad apples. Below are just a few of his past exploits highlighted by Raheem Kassam at Breitbart...
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Hamas Evades Cement Limitations by Using
Fiberglass to Fortify Terror Tunnels
by Ruthie Blum
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{algemeiner.com} ~ Hamas is overcoming Israel’s restrictions on cement and other materials intended for the rehabilitation of Gaza — but co-opted for the construction of terror tunnels – by using fiberglass to fortify the underground structures... the Hebrew news site Walla reported on Tuesday. According to the report, this development has caused the Israeli defense establishment to consider banning the entry into Gaza of the dual-purpose materials used for the production of fiberglass. Over the last few months, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Yoav Mordechai and UN officials have increased supervision over the entry of building materials into Gaza through the mechanism for the rehabilitation of the Strip following Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s war against Hamas in the summer of 2014...
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Defeating Hamas in America
By Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ To defeat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel, it is first necessary to understand it.
The BDS campaign is an extraordinary phenomenon.
Activists from US coast to coast robotically parrot the same lies, employ the same tactics of bullying, intimidating and silencing pro-Israel activists and speakers on campus after campus.
The BDS campaign is an extraordinary phenomenon.
Activists from US coast to coast robotically parrot the same lies, employ the same tactics of bullying, intimidating and silencing pro-Israel activists and speakers on campus after campus.
Their goals are uniform. They seek to silence pro-Israel voices in US academia as a means to destroy general public support for Israel in America.
And they seek to make Jew-hatred socially acceptable in elite circles in America for the first time since the Holocaust.
This month it was leftist MK Tzipi Livni’s turn to fall victim to BDS bigotry and defamation. During a public appearance at Harvard Law School, one of the heads of BDS movement at the school, Husam el-Qoulaq, asked her why she is “smelly.”
Qoulaq is the head of Students for Justice in Palestine at Harvard Law School.
SJP is the central engine of the BDS movement.
Its members are the ones who organize the “divest from Israel” resolutions routinely passed by ignorant or intimidated student representatives on college councils.
SJP members are the ones who regularly harass pro-Israel students and riot or otherwise disrupt pro-Israel events on campuses.
They are the ones who willingly and purposely engage in rank anti-Semitic demonization of Jews and Israel to normalize Jew-hatred in America.
Given SJP’s lead role in the campaign against Israel and American Jewry on college campuses, students and Jewish groups trying to combat the racist movement focus their attention on SJP.
But it works out that SJP doesn’t formally exist.
There is no nonprofit group called Students for Justice in Palestine. SJP doesn’t file tax forms. It doesn’t have a paper trail. In other words, SJP is a ghost organization, an illusion.
To bring it down you need to find its controllers.
The Canary Mission (canarymission.org) is a website managed by students and activists. It was formed “to document people and groups that are promoting hatred of the USA, Israel and the Jewish people, particularly on college campuses in North America.”
According to the website, SJP was founded in 2001 by UC Berkeley Prof. Hatem Bazian. Bazian’s organizational pedigree reads like the who’s who of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood front organizations in America.
Bazian fund-raised for a Hamas front group called KindHearts. In 2008, like a number of other Islamic groups that were found guilty of providing material support for terrorism in the framework of the Holy Land Foundation trial, KindHearts was forced to disband. KindHearts was found to have raised money for Hamas.
Another of Bazian’s former employers, the Islamic Association for Palestine, also disbanded after it was found guilty of funding Hamas.
According to the Canary Mission’s findings, Bazian founded SJP to distance the BDS movement from its Islamic masters. His idea was to brand it as a radical group that could easily collaborate with other radical groups on campus and so turn the radical establishment into an engine for anti-Israel activism.
Although Bazian went to great lengths to brand SJP as a non-Islamic movement, he had no intention of ceding control of the BDS movement to non-Islamic forces. To ensure control over SJP, and through it, the BDS movement as a whole, according to the Canary Mission, Bazian formed American Muslims for Palestine.
On April 19, during a hearing before the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, American Muslims for Palestine’s nature became clear.
Jonathan Schanzer served as a terrorism finance analyst for the Department of the Treasury from 2004 to 2007. He currently works as the vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington. In testimony before the subcommittee, Schanzer revealed that the heads of AMP are alumni of three Islamist groups that were banned following their convictions for terrorism financing during the course of the Holy Land Foundation trial that ended in 2008.
AMP’s leadership held key positions at the Holy Land Foundation, KindHearts and the Islamic Association for Palestine. These groups and their employees transferred millions of dollars to al-Qaida, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Although Schanzer could find no indication that AMP is continuing its predecessors’ practice of sending funds to foreign terrorist groups, he demonstrated how the heir of Hamas-USA now direct the BDS movement. Through AMP, they control SJP.
In his words, “AMP is a Chicago-based organization that is a leading driver of the BDS campaign.
AMP is arguably the most important sponsor and organizer for Students for Justice in Palestine, which is the most visible arm of the BDS campaign on campuses in the United States. AMP provides speakers, training, printed materials, a so-called ‘Apartheid Wall,’ and grants to SJP activists.”
Schanzer added, “AMP even has a campus coordinator on staff whose job is to work directly with SJP and other pro-BDS campus groups across the country.”
The reason that SJP activists utilize the same tactics and rhetoric from sea to shining sea is because officials from the heir to disbanded terrorism funding groups tells them what to say and do. Everything from their “Apartheid Walls” and Die-Ins to their posters and slogans and tactic of shutting down pro-Israel events is dictated to them by AMP.
Whereas SJP doesn’t exist at all on paper, AMP’s existence is eyebrow-raising from a legal perspective.
AMP is not registered as a nonprofit so it is impossible to know its funding sources or the size of its donations, because it is not required to publicize them. As Schanzer explained, funds for AMP are raised through yet another organization called Americans for Justice in Palestine Education Foundation, or AJP, whose nature and behavior are also strange.
AJP’s chairman is Bazian. AJP and AMP share the same office in the Chicago suburb of Palos Hill.
Unlike AMP, AJP is a registered nonprofit. In its 2014 990 tax form, attached to Schanzer’s testimony, it reports raising in excess of $3.2 million between 2010 and 2014. But, in apparent breach of the law, AJP did not report how it spent the money or where it received the funds from.
Like AMP, AJP members worked in the past for the Holy Land Foundation, the Islamic Association for Palestine and KindHearts. Indeed, most of them are the same people.
Not only do AMP-AFP fail to divulge their financing sources or outlays, they revel in their practice of operating at the edges of the law. At AMP’s 2014 annual conference in Chicago, participants were invited to “come and navigate the fine line between legal activism and material support for terrorism.”
Given SJP’s raging success, it isn’t a surprise that Bazian isn’t the only one claiming to have founded it. For instance, Senan Shaqdeh claims that he founded SJP. As Schanzer testified, Shaqdeh, who also lives in Chicago, is listed as a terrorist from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine by the PLO’s Ministry of Expatriate Affairs’ website.
Shaqdeh is also the coordinator of the Chicago- based US Coalition to Boycott Israel. In 2014, Shaqdeh traveled to Ramallah where he met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah.
The chairman of the US Coalition to Boycott Israel is Ghassan Barakat. According to Schanzer, Barakat is a PLO consular official in Chicago.
Like SJP, the Coalition is not a legal entity. It is not registered with state or local tax authorities. But given Barakat’s and Shaqdeh’s associations with the PLO and the PA, it is likely that it is funded by the US-funded PA.
Perhaps money from the PLO to SJP and other BDS outlets is transferred through an opaque New York state registered nonprofit called Wespac. Currently, a delegation of Palestinian students, organized by Bir Zeit University, paid for by Wespac and managed by SJP is traveling through the US lobbying students to boycott Israel.
Schanzer’s testimony should lead anti-BDS efforts in three directions. Two of them are legal, and one is political.
On the legal front, AMP and AJP’s commingling is curious, to say the least. Their failure to report the sources of their funding or how the funds are used appear, at a minimum, to be a breach of reporting requirements. These irregularities, along with the fact that officers of these organizations were in the past officers of organizations disbanded due to their provision of material support for terrorism, warrant criminal investigations by both tax authorities and counterterrorism investigators.
Unfortunately, shortly after he entered office in 2009, President Barack nObama’s then-attorney- general Eric Holder ordered the Department of Justice to stop investigating Islamist nonprofit groups. Accordingly, it is highly unlikely that any investigation will be conducted by federal agencies in the near future.
This leaves state, local and congressional authorities.
Since AMP and AJP are registered in Palos Hills, both Illinois tax authorities and law enforcement and Palos Hills authorities can open investigations into their operations. Moreover, Congress, which exposed the fact that both groups appear to be a natural continuation of banned terrorism-supporting organizations, is fully empowered to conduct congressional investigations of their operations, replete with the power to subpoena witnesses.
As for the operations of PLO officials in Chicago, their work is arguably in breach of the laws stipulating the permitted conduct of PLO officials in the US. Congress can investigate their behavior as well, and determine whether or not it constitutes a material breach of the PLO’s permitted actions in America, and so requires the US to cut off its relations with the terrorist group. Certainly the involvement of PA/PLO officials in an anti-Semitic hate campaign is grounds for a cut off of US aid to the PA.
On the political front, it is vital that Israel fight BDS as the most widespread form of anti-Semitism in North America. Unlike the situation in Europe, where BDS is largely an economic warfare campaign, in the US its goal is political. Its leaders are not interested in harming the Israeli economy per se. They are interested in cultivating anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel to pave the way for economic warfare and actual war against Israel.
Government ministers involved with the fight against BDS need to provide anti-BDS activists with information about SJP’s links to Hamas and with the PA. American Jewish organizations and activists need to call out college administrators when they say since they refuse to carry out divestment resolutions that they oppose BDS, even as they allow SJP to operate on their campuses and even fund the Hamas front group directly.
Schanzer’s testimony makes clear that the BDS movement is part and parcel of the jihadist war against Israel whose goal is its annihilation.
Both legally and politically, it needs to be fought accordingly.
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