FlotillaHyves1
  • Front Page
  • Home
  • UNRWA & Refugees
    • UNRWA & Refugees 2019 >
      • UNRWA & Refugees 2018
      • UNRWA & Refugees 2017
      • UNRWA & Refugees 2016
      • UNRWA & Refugees 2015
      • UNRWA & Refugees 2014
      • UNRWA & Refugees 2013
      • UNRWA & Refugees 2012
  • Palestinian Education
    • Palestinian Education 2019 >
      • Palestinian Education 2018
      • Palestinian Education 2017
      • Palestinian Education 2016
      • Palestinian Education 2015
      • Palestinian Education 2014
      • Palestinian Education 2013
      • Palestinian Education 2012
  • Palestinian Economy
    • Palestinian Economy 2019 >
      • Palestinian Economy 2018
      • Palestinian Economy 2017
      • Palestinian Economy 2016
      • Palestinian Economy 2015
      • Palestinian Economy 2014
      • Palestinian Economy 2013
      • Palestinian Economy 2012
  • Palestinian water
    • Palestinian water 2019 >
      • Palestinian water 2018
      • Palestinian water 2017
      • Palestinian water 2016
      • Palestinian water 2015
      • Palestinian water 2014
      • Palestinian water 2013
      • Palestinian water 2012
  • Palestinian Gas
    • Palestinian Gas 2019 >
      • Palestinian Gas 2018
      • Palestinian Gas 2016/17
      • Palestinian Gas 2015
  • Internet
    • Internet 2019 >
      • Internet 2018
      • Internet 2017
      • Internet 2016
      • Internet 2015
      • Internet 2014
      • Internet 2013
      • Internet 2012
  • Fire in and across Palestine
    • Fire in and across Palestine 2019 >
      • Fire in and across Palestine 2018
      • Fire in and across Palestine 2017
      • Fire in and across Palestine 2016
      • Fire in and across Palestine 2015
      • Fire in and across Palestine 2014
      • Fire in and across Palestine 2013
  • Palestinian New Buildings
    • Palestinian New Buildings 2019 >
      • Palestinian New Buildings 2018
      • Palestinian New Buildings 2017
      • Palestinian New Buildings 2016
      • Palestinian New Buildings 2015
      • Palestinian New Buildings 2014
      • Palestinian New Buildings 2013
      • Palestinian New Buildings 2012
  • Boycott Israel
    • Boycott Israel 2019 >
      • Boycott Israel 2018
      • Boycott Israel 2017
      • Boycott Israel 2016
      • Boycott Israel 2015
      • Boycott Israel 2014
      • Boycott Israel 2013
      • Boycott Israel 2012
  • New Weapons
    • New Weapons 2019 >
      • New Weapons 2018
      • New Weapons 2017
      • New Weapons 2016
      • New Weapons 2015
      • New Weapons 2014
      • New Weapons 2013
  • Jews vs Zionism
    • Jews vs Zionism 2018 >
      • Jews vs Zionism 2017
      • Jews vs Zionism 2016
      • Jews vs Zionism 2015
      • Jews vs Zionism 2014
      • Jews vs Zionism 2013
      • Jews vs Zionism 2012
  • Breaking the Silence
    • Breaking the Silence
    • Breaking the Silence 2018
    • Breaking the Silence 2017
    • Breaking the Silence 2016
    • Breaking the Silence 2015
    • Breaking the Silence 2014
  • Church
    • Church 2019 >
      • Church 2018
      • Church 2017
      • Church 2016
      • Church 2015
      • Church 2014
      • Church 2013
      • Church 2012
  • US America
    • US America 2019 >
      • US America 2018
      • US America 2017
      • US America 2016
      • US America 2015
      • US America 2014
      • US America 2013
      • US-America 2012
  • Saudi Arabia
    • Saudi Arabia 2019 >
      • Saudi Arabia 2018
      • Saudi Arabia 2017
  • Syria
    • Syria 2019 >
      • Syria 2018
      • Syria 2017
      • Syria 2016
      • Syria 2015
      • Syria 2014
      • Syria 2013
      • Syria 2012 >
        • Syria 2012 nov
        • Syria 2012 oct
        • Syria 2012 sept
  • Egypt
    • Egypt 2019 >
      • Egypt 2018
      • Egypt 2017
      • Egypt 2016
      • Egypt 2015
      • Egypt 2014
      • Egypt 2013
  • Lebanon
    • Lebanon 2019 >
      • Lebanon 2018
      • Lebanon 2017
      • Lebanon 2016
      • Lebanon 2015
      • Lebanon 2014
      • Lebanon 2013
      • Lebanon 2012
  • Jordan
    • Jordan 2019 >
      • Jordan 2018
      • Jordan 2017
      • Jordan 2016
      • Jordan 2015
  • Iran
    • Iran 2019 >
      • Iran 2018
      • Iran 2017
      • Iran 2016
      • Iran 2015
      • Iran 2014
      • Iran 2013
      • Iran 2012
  • Iraq
    • Iraq 2019
  • Yemen
  • Turkey
    • Turkey 2019 >
      • Turkey 2018
      • Turkey 2017
      • Turkey 2016
      • Turkey 2015
      • Turkey 2014
      • Turkey 2013
      • Turkey 2012
  • Freedom Flotilla
    • Freedom Flotilla 2017-18 >
      • Freedom Flotilla 2016
      • Freedom Flotilla 2015
  • Mavi Marmara
    • Mavi Marmara 2015 >
      • Mavi Marmara 2014
      • Mavi Marmara 2013
      • Mavi Marmara 2012
      • Mavi Marmara 2011
  • UK-Britain
    • UK-Britain 2019 >
      • UK-Britain 2018
      • UK-Britain 2017
      • UK-Britain 2016
      • UK-Britain 2015
      • UK-Britain 2014
      • UK-Britain 2013
      • UK-Britain 2012
  • The Netherlands
    • The Netherlands 2018 >
      • The Netherlands 2017
      • The Netherlands 2016
      • The Netherlands 2015
      • The Netherlands 2014
      • The Netherlands 2013
      • The Netherlands 2012
  • Anti Semitism?
    • Anti Semitism? 2019 >
      • Anti Semitism? 2018
      • Anti Semitism? 2017
      • Anti Semitism? 2016
      • Anti Semitism? 2015
      • Anti Semitism? 2014
  • "Nice" Rabbis
    • "Nice" Rabbis 2019 >
      • "Nice" Rabbis 2018
      • "Nice" Rabbis 2017
      • "Nice" Rabbis 2016
      • "Nice" Rabbis 2015
      • "Nice" Rabbis 2014
      • "Nice" Rabbis 2013
      • "Nice" Rabbis 2012
      • "Nice" Rabbis 2009
  • Pictures/names of martyrs
28 dec 2013
Israeli Official: Netanyahu is Driving Israel Towards Boycott
Picture
An Israeli senior official slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and said that he is driving Israel into international boycott and isolation and that he is not really willing to move forward with the peace talks.

Yediot Ahranot quoted the official's statements as saying, "He [Netanyahu] should have released the Palestinian prisoners at once and not release prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit. He caused great damage for Mahmoud Abbas with his conduct. He only wants to preserve his status in his party and everyone knows what it looks like."

According to Ynet, the senior official, who has been involved in running the country for years and knows its greatest secrets and sensitive issues, is opening up fierce disapproval of the Israeli prime minister and his conduct in several critical arenas, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel's relations with the US and the battle against nuclear Iran.

He added, "While Jerusalem is attempting to minimize the importance of political criticism from Europe and calls for boycotts and sanctions against Israel, the top political echelon is admitting that these are issues that may dramatically hurt Israel. The year 2014 is marked as the key time in this sense, and it is feared that the calls to boycott Israel will only expand."

"Our main problem," the official said, "is not wars, but the economic situation. A UN resolution is not needed in order to impose sanctions on us or boycott Israeli products. It is sufficient for one country to start doing it and then it spreads across Europe. We are a country that exports, and in light of the situation with the Palestinians and the continued occupation, we are seen as an apartheid state. A boycott of Israel is the most dangerous thing that exists today. The deterioration (of the situation) can be very rapid."

The senior official criticized European Union position regarding the signing of the Horizon 2020 project with Israel and said, "The Europeans must take a stance, and they want it to be a moral one. This position sides with the Palestinians – they live under occupation and Israel is the occupier."

The official added that he no longer trusts in Netanyahu's desire to reach an agreement with the Palestinians, despite his public statements on the subject. "Netanyahu has crossed the rubicon, there is no doubt," the official cynically said. "He is now at a point where he wants the Palestinians to agree with his views and his opinions."

Ynet reported, in regards to the Iranian issue, the senior official said that "due to Netanyahu's outcries, Iran has become in recent years a missile superpower, second only to the US. People do not know this, but because of Netanyahu's clamors, Iran has developed missile capabilities that are among the most advanced in the world.

"Why does he have to shout all the time that Israel will attack, what good will that do?! Israel's second strike capabilities should have been made clear to Iran and he should have clarified that if something happens — Iran will disappear. But instead, he decided to threaten and shout, prompting Iran's development of missile capabilities that they didn't previously have."

Concerning the relationship between Netanyahu and United States, the official said "Netanyahu does not understand Obama, nor the United States of today. Obama is outraged by Israel concerning the Iranian issue. In his words, "the American president is very patient. The problem is that support for Israel among Americans is declining."

"Netanyahu constantly wants to be Churchill — he quotes him all the time — but in the modern world, it is better to be Nelson Mandela or the new Pope that has taken over the world with a storm. These are not Churchill's times," the official concluded.

25 dec 2013
Israel boycott angers US congressman
Picture
New York Rep. Eliot Engel

The boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the American Studies Association (ASA) has angered Democratic Congressman Rep. Eliot Engel.

Last week, the American Studies Association said its boycott was in protest to Israel’s brutal treatment of Palestinians and the involvement of Israeli universities in supporting such policies.

Two thirds of the 1,252 members of the organization who participated in the vote approved the measure.

“The ASA condemns the United States' significant role in aiding and abetting Israel's violations of human rights against Palestinians and its occupation of Palestinian lands through its use of the veto in the UN Security Council," it said in a statement.

The move is part of a larger international effort to win boycotts of Israeli institutions over its policies toward Palestinians.

In a letter to the association’s leaders, Rep. Eliot Engel urged the ASA to end the boycott.

He said he was surprised that other countries that violated human rights are not subject to a boycott.

“I have attached several sections from the State Department’s most recent Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for your review,” the congressman wrote.

“If you desire any assistance in further identifying other countries with human rights records of concern, I and my staff stand ready to assist you and the ASA in that regard,” he added.

The American Studies Association is a professional group of about 4,000 scholars who study US history and culture.

The group has been debating a boycott since 2006 and put the matter to a vote after its leadership endorsed the idea in early December.

22 dec 2013
‘More academia must boycott Israel’
Picture
More academic associations must follow in the footsteps of the American Studies Association (ASA) in its endorsement of a widespread boycott of Israeli universities, an analyst says.

“It (Boycott Israel movement) must be expanded into a full-scale assault on Israeli lobby subversion of America to rip it out by the roots,” Jim W. Dean wrote in a column for Press TV on Sunday.

“We will never be safe as long as they can operate freely. If they are to be victims, let them be victims of their own stupidity and treason toward the rest of us,” he said.

Dean noted that “the Boycott Israel movement got a major moral shot in the arm recently” following the ASA’s endorsement.

He said the Zionists have “run extensive academic espionage operations here on the old communist model.” The campaign to cut off ties with Israeli academic institutions dates back a decade, but it was not until April that an American academic group of any size endorsed a boycott.

The boycott calls on American schools and academic groups to ban collaboration with Israeli institutions, but individual Israeli scholars who do not represent Tel Aviv would still be able to attend academic events in the United States.

On Friday, Israel’s former ambassador to US, Michael Oren, warned that more organizations are likely to boycott Israeli academia.

Dean said “Israeli operatives” have been “subverting” US institutions to “serve special interests that is putting wind into the sails of the anti-Zionist movement now.”

“Militant Zionists and their 5th column in the US have a growing concern of the increasingly open opposition to their long record of crimes against humanity and ongoing cover-up. They know they have done these things and have pumped massive resources into stacking the deck to block any justice being served upon them,” wrote Dean.

21 dec 2013
Palestinian officials affirm 'respect' for BDS after Abbas disavowal
Picture
Palestinian officials in South Africa released a statement clarifying that they are not opposed to the boycott of Israel on Friday.

The statement comes in the wake of controversial anti-boycott statements made by Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas while he was visiting South Africa to mark the death of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.

The statement, which was released jointly by the Embassy of Palestine in South Africa and BDS South Africa, stopped short of declaring its support for the boycott of Israel.

It did, however, confirm its support for the boycott of Israeli settlement products and stressing that it "respect(s) and uphold(s) the right of Palestinian civil society to initiate and lead local and global BDS campaigns."

The statement also expressed "deep appreciation" for the efforts of the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement "to uphold international law and universal principles of human rights."

"With the view that the Israeli settlements are illegitimate and an obstruction to a just peace, the Palestinian Authority has accordingly initiated an official boycott of all Israeli settlement products in the occupied Palestinian territory," the statement read, pointing out that it supports this move "as a first step."

The statement highlighted the historical importance of the international BDS solidarity movement in defeating the apartheid system in South Africa, and stressed that "if Nelson Mandela and the South African people defeated apartheid, the Palestinians too will defeat the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands."

The statement was released amid an uproar after Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas told South African newspaper "The Star" on December 11 that he does not support the boycott of Israel.

"No we do not support the boycott of Israel," Abbas is reported to have told a press conference during his visit to South Africa to mark the death of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.

"But we ask everyone to boycott the products of the settlements. Because the settlements are in our territories. It is illegal … But we don't ask anyone to boycott Israel itself. We have relations with Israel, we have mutual recognition of Israel."

Picture
The statements provoked outrage among activists, who saw in his words a condemnation of the growing movement to isolate Israel politically, economically, and culturally in order to support the Palestinian struggle.

The statement released by the Embassy of Palestine in South Africa, however, disputed this.

"Recent comments made in South Africa by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization), regarding the boycott of Israeli settlements and products, seem to have been taken out of context and misconstrued by some members of the media and members of the Israeli lobby," the statement argued.

Prior to the recent statement's release, prominent BDS activist Omar Barghouti stressed the the widespread support for the boycott of Israel within Palestinian civil society.

"Any Palestinian official who lacks a democratic mandate and any real public support, therefore, cannot claim to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people when it comes to deciding our strategies of resistance to Israel’s regime of occupation, colonization and apartheid," he told alternative media outlet Electronic Intifada on December 12.

"Any Palestinian official who today explicitly speaks against boycotting Israel – particularly in a country like South Africa, where the ruling party, leading trade unions, churches and other civil society groups have warmly endorsed BDS – only shows how aloof he is from his own people’s aspirations for freedom, justice and equality, and how oblivious he is to our struggle for their inalienable rights," Barghouti added.

Page:  10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.