Israel/Palestine
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Senior officials from the Santander Group, one of Europe's largest banks, visited Israel this month to look for potential investments in Israeli startups, sources inform Globes. According to experts, the groups investment fund, Santander InnoVentures, is expected to invest in at least one Israeli startup by the end of the year.
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-santander-seeks-israeli-startup-investments-1001069744
King_David
(14,851 posts)Are those BDS misleading us ?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134114349
LOL
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Anyway, I wish them luck, because while it's not hard to find a good startup in Israel, it could be hard to choose only one.
King_David
(14,851 posts)That bigoted BDS organization boycotts American Jews.
Recently they would not allow an American citizen to play at a reggae concert - because he was a Jew.
( decision was reversed after an outcry) but the bigoted BDS movement at the same concert allowed an extremely homophobic anti - gay performance to go ahead.
BDS bigotry is again and again proven to be against Jews and not Israel and has nothing to do with the occupation- recently this movement left a severed pigs head in a Jewish Kosher supermarket in South Africa
... It's all about Jews with this BDS movement... That's what motivates their supporters.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)you wont see ANY American politician embrace bds. It would be suicide for their career.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)And it's true.....
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Star Member King_David (12,784 posts)
8. Sounds more like an astute observation .
And it's true.....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=114461
King_David
(14,851 posts)In democratic strongholds like NYC or Miami or Los Angeles or Chicago in particular ?
( you going to echo and cut and paste and repeat all my brilliant posts ? LOL)
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)It almost sounds like you are saying that these Americans have a dual loyalty.
Curious...
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Can you name one elected official in the US that has even met with that odious group, let alone take on their cause?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)One day you're going to just admit that Americans strongly support Israel, as do our elected representatives and embracing the odious bds after proving they are against Jews and not just Israelis is not something any of them are stupid enough to do. I know it pains you but those are the facts.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)I don't know of any Western government or company that boycotts Israel, all the actual BDS is against the settlements and the occupation. It's not about bigotry at all - it's all about the settlements and the occupation. And for those examples, I think you misrepresent why the Jewish American singer was barred - he had said some very negative things about the Gaza flotilla that could be seen as supporting the occupation.
I have no idea who thought it was a good idea to put heads of pigs in the kosher section, or why.
King_David
(14,851 posts)The BDS movement thought it a good idea.
Besides Reykavik city council, and the traditional Arab League boycott of Israel which government is part of the BDS movement?
bumprstickr
(74 posts)BDS means sanctions aimed at stopping Israeli settlements.
King_David
(14,851 posts)The founder of the BDS movement disagrees... BDS aims for the complete destruction of Israel .
BDS banned an American Jew from performing at a reggae concert recently but allowed an anti gay homophobia scum to perform.
That's just a recent example but many many more.
bumprstickr
(74 posts)A movement is composed of many people. Are all white Christians defined by Kim Roberts or Josh Duggar?
King_David
(14,851 posts)But there have been way too many anti Jewish incidents by this movement.
Welcome to DU.
bumprstickr
(74 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Want to take that one on?
I bet I'll be met with the sounds of silence.
King_David
(14,851 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)The BDS movement values and ideals are quite clearly articulated on the movement's website.
bumprstickr
(74 posts)to all democrats?
plug in any word for democrat, like republican, or Christian, or atheist and ask the same question.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)are not representing your interests and you feel they are hurting a larger cause, you either get rid of the leaders, denounce them, or you find another way to express your cause.
bumprstickr
(74 posts)which do YOU follow and which do YOU denounce in any group that you belong to?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)It's the members that don't speak out against he egregious behavior or views of their leaders. I haven't seen one thing in the bds movement that deserves respect. I'm not sure that answers your question but you're not being clear.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Otherwise what is the point of calling yourself a Democrat?
bumprstickr
(74 posts)Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I have no problem with any of those three you mentioned being our face. They'd all be stellar candidates.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Source: The Guardian, 17 April 2015
Foreign ministers from 16 EU countries including the UK have signed a letter to the EUs foreign policy head, Federica Mogherini, requesting she expedite moves to ensure the clear labelling of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements and sold
in Europe.
The letter, written earlier this week and leaked to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Thursday, comes amid mounting pressure from ministers in a number of European countries to advance punitive policies targeting Israels settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
That pressure has been mounting since the collapse last year of the US-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and amid concern that a new coalition government being assembled by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, will have no interest in advancing a two-state solution.
Among the signatories of the letter are France, Britain, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Malta, Austria, Ireland, Portugal, Slovenia, Hungary, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands and Luxembourg with only Germanys foreign minister among the five biggest European states not endorsing it.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/16/foreign-ministers-petition-eu-to-urge-labelling-of-settlement-products
I wouldn't want to include the Arab League in the BDS - it's a completely different boycott that came into being for a different reason.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)In 2005, Palestinian civil society issued a call for a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights.
http://www.bdsmovement.net/
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Source: The Guardian, 29 June 2010
Israeli factories based in settlements on the West Bank have been forced to cut back production as a growing Palestinian boycott movement begins to take effect.
The boycott, endorsed by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, was given further momentum this week when a campaign to clear supermarket shelves of produce originating in settlements was rolled out in Ramallah.
"The objective is to ensure the Palestinian market is free of Israeli settlement produce by the end of this year," the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, said at the launch of the Store to Store campaign at the Alameen supermarket.
A team of volunteers will inspect 66,000 stores across the West Bank in the coming weeks, awarding certificates and window stickers to those free of settlement produce.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/29/palestinian-boycott-israeli-settlement-goods
Most people, even Palestinians, are able to see the difference between Israel and and the settlements. Why can't you?