"Hundreds of Israeli soldiers age 19 to 21 are deployed every night on missions of state terror when they break into Palestinian homes in the West Bank, without a judge’s warrant or oversight of a body that is not an interested party (there is no such body)…”
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"The authority is a military order from 54 years ago, when we thought the occupation was temporary…”
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"We were wrong, and now it’s impossible to understand our society without taking into account the tens of thousands of Israelis who, with a sense of entitlement, commit these violent intrusions on the privacy of millions of Palestinians.”
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"Israel gives these young soldiers so much power. They kick in doors or break them down with a huge explosion that invades the sleep of the people who live in the house…"
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"With shouts and screams they raid the rooms; with guns aimed, they rouse the children, the old and the young out of their beds…”
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The groups "endorse the use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance "Working Definition of Antisemitism" (IHRA) as a tool for monitoring and raising awareness.”
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ICYMI, Janet Yellen’s response to Senate Finance Committee for the record re: BDS (page 40) does not sound like support for First Amendment rights of Americans or of free speech as a value around the world
"President Biden has led efforts to oppose the delegitimization of Israel, whether in international organizations or by the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement in the United States…"
“...I support President Biden’s approach of opposing such efforts and ifconfirmed, ***will work as Treasury Secretary to oppose BDS activities directed at Israel.***"
Israelis have long had no issue ignoring terrorist past of fellow Israelis, while they impose 6-degrees-of-terrorist-contamination standard on Palestinians. Shurat HaDin exemplifies this, but Exhibit A has to be political commentator/journo Haggai Segal
“In 1980, while part of the group Jewish Underground, Segal planted and planted a bomb that blew off the leg of a Palestinian mayor. He served a prison sentence and later wrote about his experiences in the book Dear Brothers: The West Bank Jewish Underground.”
Wilders “has right-wing fans the world over...Netanyahu’s eldest son, Yair, has called Wilders a ‘true friend’ of the Jewish people, & wished him success ahead of the 2019 European parliamentary elections. Netanyahu Sr. didn’t distance himself from his son’s endorsement.”
“He reiterates to Haaretz that the Netherlands ‘should learn from Israel when it comes to dealing with radical Islamism. We should adopt administrative detention...’ The practice is widely criticized by human rights organizations...”
Another quick thread re State Dept plan to label human rights orgs “antisemitic”:
Key thing to understand is that such labeling is a feature, not a bug, of efforts to promoting definition of antisemitism that focuses NOT on hatred/threats to Jews, but on criticism of Israel.
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This re-definition is at the core of the IHRA definition of antisemitism’s “contemporary examples.”
And make no mistake: these examples - which conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism - are the ONLY parts of the IHRA that backers of this effort are interested in.
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So rather than focus on real lethal antisemitism surging around the world, the massive effort focuses on promoting this definition, so that today they can say, “hey, it’s not us labeling them antisemitic, it’s this definition that everyone accepts, and who can argue with that” 3/
A State Department Memo Suggests It’s About to Accuse Prominent Human Rights Groups of “Anti-Semitism” – Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
“‘Certain non-governmental organizations (NGOs) regularly participate in and promote the Global BDS Campaign or engage in other activities that meet the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of anti-Semitism,’...”
“... reads a memo produced by Carr’s office, which Mother Jones obtained, that urges Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to permit the release of its report...”