Boycotting Israel can soon land you in jail

[transdimensional]

Boycotting Israel can soon land you in jail
Israel about to criminalize BDS

by Sydney Levy
The Only Democracy?
June 9, 2010


What is Israel’s reaction to the growing nonviolent movement of boycott,
divestment, and sanctions? Well criminalize it, of course!

We just learned new bill has been introduced in the Israeli Knesset by
25 Knesset members, that would criminalize all BDS activities or even
BDS advocacy inside or outside Israel. You can find info about this in
English here and with more detail in Hebrew here.

The proposed bill would target those that initiate, encourage, or provide
assistance or information about boycotts against Israel.

Israeli citizens or residents of Israel could be sued by whoever was
harmed by the boycott and would have to pay up to 30,000 shekels in
restitution and an additional amount according to the harm established by
the Israeli courts.
This provision would endanger the Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace,
New Profile, Boycott from Within, among others.

Those that are neither citizens nor residents of Israel would lose the
ability of entering Israel for at least ten years and would be forbidden from
economic activity in Israel (holding an account in an Israeli bank, owning
Israeli stocks, land, or any other good that requires registration.)
It is not clear whether this provision would apply also to entry into the
West Bank, although Prof. Noam Chomsky’s denial of entry may be a sign
of things to come.

A group in a foreign country would also be forbidden from economic
activism in Israel. This would apply to the Palestinian Authority as well.
In the case of the PA, Israel would freeze transfer of money it owes and
would use it to pay restitution to those harmed in Israel.

source: The Only Democracy?

 

[Al Today]

I am just awestruck. Yep, they're the victim alright. Sure... They play this role beyond my furthest imaginings. Politicians used to lie. Now they are so emboldened that they damn near tell us outright to our face what they're a gonna do. And then they kinda look at us to say, "Yeah, and what you gonna do about that.". And they smirk, probably smile and laugh themselves silly about the wimpy, powerless, goyim sheeple. Can we say arrogant? Talk about a slap in the face.!.!.! Hell, that's a jack boot kick to the groin.
I believe it true that fact can be wilder than fiction.
And by the way, when are people gonna wake up to the fact that being a Jew is a religion, not a race! A Jew is no more a race than is a Catholic, Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon or whatever is a race.

 

[Joe]

People should respond to this by increasing the calls for international boycotts and increasing international boycotting activity

 

[Marcus-Aurelius]

In the case of the PA, Israel would freeze transfer of money it owes and
would use it to pay restitution to those harmed in Israel.

How far can these guys go?

 

[JEEP]

What is Israel’s reaction to the growing nonviolent movement of boycott,
divestment, and sanctions? Well criminalize it, of course!

(Belibaste) We wanted to know the percentage of psychopaths geographically speaking, like in the US, Israel, UK.
[...]
(Ailén) Israel?

A: 42 percent.

They're staying true to their nature!

One can only hope that the more they increase their evil, violent, and fascist repressive actions, the more the "normal" people can actually see the truth about them.

 

[Voyageur]

Here is news of a government 'Bill" out of the Lone Star State in the Jerusalem Post _http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Texas-Senate-passes-anti-BDS-bill-Gov-expected-to-sign-in-May-489281

Texas Senate passes anti-BDS bill, Gov. expected to sign in May
ByBenjamin Weinthal
April 28, 2017 20:31

"Israel Independence Day will be celebrated in the Lone Star State this year with a greater sense of pride than ever."

The Texas Senate passed an anti-boycott Israel bill by a vote of 26-5 on Thursday. The governor of Texas is slated to sign the anti–BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) legislation on Israel’s Independence Day on Tuesday in Austin.

“Rep. Phil King and Sen. Brandon Creighton deserve our respect and deep gratitude for driving this monumental piece of legislation. We are confident other lawmakers in other states will look to their leadership and model their efforts on their legislation,” Charles Kaufman, who chairs B’nai B’rith’s International Center for Human Rights and Public Policy, told The Jerusalem Post. Kaufman, who resides in Austin, testified on behalf of the anti-BDS bill.

He added: “Israel has a great friend and business partner in the State of Texas. Texas holds more than $50 million in Israel Bonds. It exports $495m. of product to Israel. Military contracts by Israel in Texas totaled $118m. [in 2012]. Texas also is engaged in joint projects with Israel in agricultural research and development, science and technology and industrial research and development. Israel is Texas’s fourth leading trade partner.

“Nearly 300 Texas companies do business with Israel, notably Agar Corporation, CompUSA, Hewlett Packard- Compaq, Fortune Industries, Bell Helicopters, Microdynamics, VTEL Corporation, Motorola and Optibase Advanced Systems. This is a big deal. Research alliances involve numerous public and private scientific activities – the Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation and the Binational Science Foundation.”

Kaufman said, “Israel Independence Day will be celebrated in the Lone Star State this year with a greater sense of pride than ever.”

The Dallas office of the American Jewish Committee said that it “applauded final adoption of the Texas anti- BDS bill today in the state legislature. The state senate passed the reconciliation measure following last week’s unanimous House adoption of the bill.”

“The Texas-Israel relationship is essential. In addition to our shared democratic values, Israel is the state’s fourth largest trading partner,” said AJC Dallas director Joel Schwitzer. “We are grateful for the leadership of Representative Phil King and Senator Brandon Creighton in championing this important legislation.”

“With this bill, Texas is expressing strong support for Israel and its supporters in our state, and delivering firm opposition to BDS proponents,” said Randy Czarlinsky, director of AJC Houston.

After the slated signing of the anti-BDS law, the Dallas- based Comerica bank may face a fresh wave of pressure for maintaining a BDS account with the pro-Iran BDS group, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers.

“Comerica should close the account,” Daniel S. Mariaschin, executive vice president of B’nai B’rith, told the Post in March.

When asked about the BDS account, Alexandra Alvelo, a spokeswoman for Hudson Executive Capital, a partial owner of Comerica, declined to respond to Post queries.

Efforts to reach Hudson Executive Capital founder Doug Braunstein were not successful.

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told the Post in March that Comerica should pull the plug on the IADL account. He said “Facilitating the bank accounts of BDS organizations constitutes support for BDS. Banks maintaining such accounts should carefully consider the danger of running afoul of strict anti- BDS legislation in the US and other countries.”

Wayne Mielke, a spokesman for Comerica, responded to the Post by email in March, saying, “We don’t discuss customer relationships, and want you to know (again) that we have a robust compliance program at the bank.”

 

[Voyageur]

He added: “Israel has a great friend and business partner in the State of Texas. Texas holds more than $50 million in Israel Bonds. It exports $495m. of product to Israel. Military contracts by Israel in Texas totaled $118m. [in 2012]. Texas also is engaged in joint projects with Israel in agricultural research and development, science and technology and industrial research and development. Israel is Texas’s fourth leading trade partner.

“Nearly 300 Texas companies do business with Israel, notably Agar Corporation, CompUSA, Hewlett Packard- Compaq, Fortune Industries, Bell Helicopters, Microdynamics, VTEL Corporation, Motorola and Optibase Advanced Systems. This is a big deal. Research alliances involve numerous public and private scientific activities – the Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation and the Binational Science Foundation.”

Wanted to add something related to America's funding - here is some basics: http://ifamericaknew.org/stat/usaid.html

The U.S. provides Israel $9.8 million* in military aid each day, while it gives the Palestinians $0** in military aid.

“Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing the amounts provided to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct U.S. economic and military assistance since 1976 and the largest total recipient since World War ll. Total direct U.S. aid to Israel amounts to well over $140 billion in 2003 dollars. Israel receives about $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America's entire foreign aid budget. In per capita terms, the United States gives each Israeli a direct subsidy worth about $500 per year. This largesse is especially striking when one realizes that Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain.”

- John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"

So it is a great deal of financial aid indeed. And it further states that:

Read our memo on the new 10-year $38 billion aid package to Israel just signed by President Obama.

According to the report, the United States gave Israel $3.1 billion for Fiscal Year 2016 in direct bilateral military aid (also referred to as Foreign Military Financing or FMF). Congress also gave $487.6 million to "joint" U.S.-Israel missile defense programs (designed to protect Israeli territory from potential outside threats), bringing total military aid to Israel to $3.6 billion per year.

Put another way, American taxpayers give Israel $9.8 million per day (in 2016).

Anyway, as the site's title says "If Americans Only Knew" has other aspects, OSIT. This funding (and it my be much greater), as it appears, also facilitates not only the state-welfare state, it facilitates the corporate-welfare state in Israel and in America. So some of those companies listed above in Texas (or wherever) may in fact receive portions of the Federal aid back from Israel in this quid pro quo revolving state/corporate-welfare door, whereby it also funds the stock portfolios and those who mange them...

If this is so, it is directly also a scheme upon the American taxpayers to help fund these corporations. This seems not different than let's say the British funding an African country with corrupt leadership, who in turn (with either the cash or some form of austerity measure or resource ownership) provide back assurance to hire their police to help train, purchase weapons systems, chemical agra, pharma et cetera.

So it sure seems the taxpaying people in many places of the world are caught up in this welfare racket, with the main ingredient that of corruption and self-sustaining greed at the expense of citizens. How many citizens are killed seems to matter not - as long as the cycle of funding keeps revolving.

To quote again "The U.S. provides Israel $9.8 million in military aid each day, while it gives the Palestinians $0 in military aid" nor any real other aid whatsoever. As always, all the Palestinians ever get from America and others is their lip service or, with Israels help, the point of the stick to ensure the conflict and funding continue.