Zo bepaalt deze uitermate gevaarlijke terreurentiteit, bekend als Israël, meer en meer de binnen en buitelandpolitiek van de meeste westerse landen en zelfs de politiek in steden...... Door ook maar één letter van kritiek op Israël te uiten in de openbaarheid, krijg je onmiddellijk het stempel antisemiet en ten tweede de toevoeging fascist of nazi opgeplakt......... (tot semieten behoren overigens ook de arabische volkeren!)
Overigens waren het Israëlische officieren die begin negentiger jaren de klok luidden over hun militaire opleiding, waar het handboek van de SS als leidraad werd gebruikt voor o.a. het beheersen van een mensenmassa (tot hele huizenblokken en zelfs tot complete getto's....).....
Under Pressure From Pro-Israel Groups, New Orleans Repeals BDS Resolution
January
27, 2018 at 9:23 am
Written
by Middle
East Eye
(MEE) — The
New Orleans City Council rescinded a human rights resolution backed
by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) advocates after pressure
from pro-Israel politicians and groups.
The
short-lived resolution, which was withdrawn on Thursday, recommended
removing corporations that violate human rights from the city’s
list of contractual partners, but it did not specifically mention
Israel or Palestine.
The
New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee (NOPSC) had pushed the measure,
known as R-18-5, which drew the ire of Israel’s supporters
immediately after its passage.
Max
Geller, a member of the New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee,
said city officials had been “cowardly” in succumbing to pressure
from the Israeli lobby.
Still,
opponents of the measure had called the resolution bigoted and
unjustified.
“The
BDS movement, which has inherently anti-Semitic components, is
designed to challenge Israel’s economic viability and very right to
exist,” the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans (JFGNO) said
in a statement on 12 January, a day after the measure was passed.
In
a joint statement, JFGNO and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
welcomed scrapping the resolution, saying that BDS “does not
advance the discussion towards meaningful resolution and peace
between Israelis and Palestinians, or a workable two state solution.”
The
BDS movement started as a call by Palestinian civil society activists
for a peaceful means to resist the Israeli occupation of Palestinian
territories. They liken their movement to boycott calls against the
apartheid government in South Africa in the 1960s.
BDS
critics accuse it of anti-Semitism because it targets Israel.
Geller told
MEE that Israel’s supporters are only interested in maintaining the
“apartheid practices” of the Israeli government.
“There’s
nothing anti-Semitic about non-violently resisting state violence,”
Geller said in defense of BDS.
“There’s
nothing anti-Semitic about putting an end to ethnic cleansing and
allowing people to stay on their own land.”
Council
members felt a backlash from pro-Israeli groups “immediately”
after the resolution was passed.
“Almost
immediately, my fellow council members and I received sharp criticism
for the manner in which the resolution was passed, as well as the
unintended, but serious consequences of its passage,” Mayor-elect
LaToya Cantrell said in a statement.
Although
she authored and introduced the measure, Cantrell added that its
“unintended impact does not reflect my commitment to inclusivity,
diversity, and respect and support for civil rights, human rights and
freedoms of all New Orleanians.”
New
Orleans-based Republican State Senator Conrad Appel had called the
pro-BDS resolution “absurd.”
This is beyond absurd! Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and a true friend. So the City Council votes to support those who want to destroy Israel! I am am speechless. twitter.com/The_Gambit/sta…
Outgoing
Mayor Mitch Landrieu also said in a statement that the resolution
does not represent the policy of the city, calling the measure
“gratuitous.”
Even
outside New Orleans, pro-Israel politicians slammed the resolution,
with South Carolina State Representative Alan Clemmons calling for a
boycott against the southern city.
One
after another, council members started distancing themselves from the
pro-BDS measure that they had approved.
Council
President Jason Williams, who co-sponsored the resolution, said he
had to educate himself about BDS and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
after R-18-5 was passed.
“Let
me be very clear to citizens of New Orleans and citizens of the
world; this city council is not anti-Israel,” Williams said in a
statement. “That sentiment is inconsistent with the council’s
actions and certainly mine personally.”
However,
BDS activists say city officials knew exactly what they were voting
on, and Williams had cited the boycott against apartheid in South
Africa while discussing the resolution.
The
council president did not return MEE’s request for comment.
Geller
said council members are acting like they did not know the aim of
R-18-5, which “doesn’t jive with reality”.
He
said Palestinian rights activists had had dozens of interactions with
council members before 11 January and every single time, they
introduced themselves as the New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity
Committee.
Despite
the disappointment, Tabitha Mustafa, an organiser for the Solidarity
Committee, said the repeal of the resolution is not a loss for BDS.
She
explained that the affair has put Palestinian suffering and Israeli
abuses in the public eye.
“We
haven’t lost anything. This is a victory. I would like to say thank
you to the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federation of
Greater New Orleans for getting out the word about Palestinian human
rights and Israeli apartheid violations of human rights.”
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