Fascism: Israeli Parliament Passed A Law Banning Boycotts Against The State And Its Settlements

Flashback:

– Former Head of Mossad Meir Dagan: Israel Government ‘Reckless And Irresponsible’ – ‘I Decided To Speak Because When I Was In Office, Diskin, Ashkenazi And I Could Block Any Dangerous Adventure. NOW I AM AFRAID THAT THERE IS NO ONE TO STOP BIBI AND BARAK’ (Guardian)

Meet the NAZIS:

– On record: Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘America is something that can easily be moved.’ ‘The world won’t say a thing.’ ‘The world will say we’re defending.’

– Influential Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Non-Jews Are Donkeys, Created To Serve Jews (Jerusalem Post)

– Israel: Influential Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Calls For Palestinians To ‘Perish From The World’ (Daily Mail)

– Israel’s boycott ban meets swift resistance (Christian Science Monitor, July 12, 2011):

Tel Aviv — Israel’s parliament late Monday approved a controversial law banning boycotts against the state and Jewish settlements, a retaliatory move against growing calls for economic and political pressure on Israel to withdraw from the West Bank amid stagnant peace talks with the Palestinians.

The law fines groups or individuals that promote anti-Israel or antisettlement boycotts and exposes them to lawsuits of nearly $10,000 without having to prove any damage.

Though proponents argue that the law is necessary to protect Israeli citizens against campaigns to delegitimize Israel and make it into a pariah state, the bill’s passage has raised a storm of criticism alleging that the measure erodes the country’s democracy and will ultimately weaken its international standing.

“This is a blatant and a resounding shutting of people’s mouths. This is a thought police,” wrote Ben Caspit, a columnist for the daily newspaper Maariv. “The news of this law passing will spread throughout the world like a fire in a field of thorns … . Our image, already at a low, will continue to scrape the bottom of the barrel. The delegitimization will increase.”

The breakdown of peace talks has prompted the Palestinian Authority to promote an economic boycott on anything manufactured in the Jewish settlements or with links to towns in lands claimed by the Palestinians as part of a future state.

There is also concern about efforts of pro-Palestinian activists to lobby for international sanctions against Israel, such as the exclusion of academics from conferences abroad.

However, the law is also aimed an Israeli doves who have called on the public to boycott visiting the settlements and to avoid buying goods made there. Last year, a group of state-employed actors refused to participate in a performance by Israel’s national theater company in the settlement of Ariel, stirring a furor.

“The Knesset has put an end to the stupidity of boycotts emanating within our midst,” says Zeev Elkin, the parliamentary whip for the ruling Likud Party. “The boycott law isn’t meant to shut people up but defend the citizens of Israel.”

The law was criticized by the Palestinian Authority, which said that the law would empower the government to sanction international groups that boycott the settlements. The bill “sends a clear message that Israel is not committed to a two-state solution,” said Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat in a statement.

Israeli critics said that the law would penalize only certain types of boycotts and that it reflects a blow to minority rights in Israel. It’s the latest in a line of legislation backed by Israel’s rightist parliament that critics say erodes the country’s democratic principles.

“This is a proposal that purports to prevent ‘damage to the state of Israel’ via a boycott,” wrote Mordechai Kremnitzer, a law professor at Hebrew University and a fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, “but it actually undermines criticism and political protest against ruling policies. This is liable to have a chilling effect… and injure freedom of expression.”

Rights groups vowed to petition Israel’s High Court against the law. The boycott law has already drawn fire from parliament’s legal adviser, who said the legislation could very well be found unconstitutional. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was notably absent from the vote, a move which commentators suggested reflected his discomfort with the law.

In the prime minister’s address to the US Congress in May, he bragged about Israel’s commitment to democracy and the rights enjoyed by the country’s one-fifth minority. Critics said the new law will undermine Israel’s moral authority to call for democratic reform among Middle East neighbors.

“After the passing of this law, how can the Israeli government expect the people of Iran to back sanctions against their own country and to rise up against Iran’s rulers, when Israelis can no longer call for a boycott against their own country?” says Meir Javedanfar, an Israeli expert on Iran.

More on Israel:

So this is what Bibi calls self-defense to ensure Israel’s security and survival???

Looks like a (slow) war of conquest to me. (Click on image to enlarge.)

– Israeli Undercover Agents Boast Of Killing Palestinians on TV (Gilad Atzmon)

– Israeli PM’s Son Yair Netanyahu Insults Muslims On Facebook: ‘Terror Has A Religion And It Is Islam’ (Independent)

– The (Jewish American) Boy Who Tried To Stand Up To Israel (Independent)

– Former Israeli Special Forces Soldier Reveals Assassination Squads (Breaking The Silence):

Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories.

– IDF Soldiers Kill 20 Pro-Palestinian Protesters And Wound 325 At Border (Daily Mail)

– AIPAC 2011: Marching In step with AIPAC – Jewish life more valuable than Palestinians (YouTube)

– Watch How IDF Soldiers Treat Women!!! (Video) (YouTube)

– (CNN Video) Netanyahu Lectures Obama On Live TV At The White House:’It’s not going to happen. Everybody knows it’s not going to happen, and I think it’s time to tell the Palestinians forthrightly it’s not going to happen.”

– Rep. Ron Paul Seeks Vote To End ALL Foreign Aid To Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Pakistan

– Helen Thomas: Jews Control White House, Congress – ‘I’m Not Anti-Jewish; I’m Anti-Zionist.’

And Helen Thomas is spot on:

– On record: Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘America is something that can easily be moved.’ ‘The world won’t say a thing.’ ‘The world will say we’re defending.’

– Traitor Joe Biden on Shalom TV: ‘I am a ZIONIST’

– An Interview With Holocaust Survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer: ‘Zionism Has Nothing to do With Judaism’

– Israel Shahak: The History of the Jews (Must-see!)

– Gilad Atzmon: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

– Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts: ‘AIPAC Owns The US Puppet Government’

– A Hebrew Israeli radio station, Kol Yisrael, on October 3rd 2001 reported that during an argument in an Israeli cabinet meeting, Shimon Peres warned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that unless he would heed American requests for a cease fire with the Palestinians, he could cause America to turn against Israel. In a fit of anger, Sharon responded to Peres:

“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”

– U.S. Senator William Fulbright said on CBS’s Face the Nation, that, “Israel controls the U.S. Senate.”

– Israel Wants Additional $20 Billion In Military Aid From US Taxpayers (Daily Mail)

– The Zionist Story (Full Documentary) – From The Perspective of An Ex-Israeli Soldier (YouTube)

– Egyptian General: Enemy Agents In The White House And Israel Carried Out 9/11 (YouTube)

– Israel Deliberately Bombs Medical Supply Factory (Ken O’Keefe in Gaza, Feb. 8, 2011 ) (YouTube)

– Largest Secret Spy Hub Uncovered In Israel (RT)

– ‘I am Israel’ – ‘Soy Israel’ – ‘Ich bin Israel’ – ‘Io sono Israele’ – ‘? – ???????’ – ‘Jestem Izraelem’ – ‘Je suis Israël’ – ‘????? ?? ??????’ – ‘Ik ben Israël’ (YouTube)

– Israel Demolishes Homes And Classroom in West Bank Village (Guardian)

– Israel Launches Twin Air Strikes on Gaza (AFP)

– Israelis shoot dead sleeping elderly Palestinian (Daily Star)

– Palestinian Report: Man killed in Hebron was sleeping when shot (Ynetnews)

– Mossad Agent ‘Brought Down Egypt’s Internet’ (Telegraph)

– Gilad Atzmon: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness (Gilad Atzmon)

– Who Were The First Terrorists In The Middle East? (YouTube)

– Israel Shahak: The History of the Jews (Must-see!)

– Israel: Work Begins on Egypt Barrier (Reuters)

– Gaza War Lies Vs. Facts (YouTube)

– The Banality of Evil: IOF soldiers celebrating the destruction of houses (Gilad Atzmon)

– Israeli soldier sent to prison for stealing from Gaza aid flotilla (Telegraph)

– Influential Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Non-Jews Are Donkeys, Created To Serve Jews (Jerusalem Post)

– Two Israelis in Custody for Trying to Bribe Georgian Deputy Finance Minister (Haaretz)

– Israel mocks Palestinians and US by going ahead with new settlements (Guardian)

– Israel minister Isaac Herzog: ‘There is a whiff of fascism on the margins of Israeli society’ (AFP)

– Israel: Influential Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Calls For Palestinians To ‘Perish From The World’ (Daily Mail)

– Israel’s President Shimon Peres Claims English Are ‘Anti-Semitic’ (Telegraph)

– David Cameron: Israeli Blockade Has Turned Gaza Strip Into A ‘Prison Camp’ (Guardian)

– Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘America is something that can easily be moved.’ ‘The world won’t say a thing.’ ‘The world will say we’re defending.’ (Video)

– Israel Paves Way For Remote Control Killing (The National)

– Exposed: The Truth About Israel’s Land Grab In The West Bank (The Independent)

– Israel rejects international probe, says it would be biased against the Jewish state; Egypt calls Gaza blockade a failure, border stays open (AP)

– Iran Offers Military Protection To Gaza Aid Ships (RT)

– Former US Marine Disarms Israeli Commandos, Describes Mass Murder By Israeli Soldiers (YouTube)

– Autopsy Results Reveal That Gaza Flotilla Activists Were Shot In Head At Close Range (Guardian)

– Robert Fisk: The Truth Behind The Israeli Propaganda (Independent)

– Gilad Atzmon on Israeli collective madness: ‘The world sees now what Israel is all about’

– American teenager among those killed in Israeli raid of aid flotilla; Israeli soldiers accused of refusing to treat the injured, letting them die (Washington Post/Al Jazeera)

– President Abdullah Gul: Turkey will ‘never forgive’ Israel (Al Jazeera)

– Ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky: Gaza flotilla raid ’so stupid it’s stupefying’ (The Raw Story)

– Israeli soldiers murder at least 10 civilians on boat carrying aid to Gaza (Los Angeles Times)

– Israel stations nuclear missile submarines off Iran (Times)

– Gaza Aid Flotilla Delayed After Mystery Faults Hit Two Boats (Independent)

– Israeli Commandos Ordered To Stop Gaza Aid Ships (Times)
– Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons (Guardian)

– Report: Israel threatens to ‘return Syria back to the Stone Age’ (Ynet)

– Discharged IDF Soldiers Sue For Millions Over Anthrax Vaccine Experiment (YNet News)

– The US Military now KNOWS Mossad carried out 9/11 Attacks:

Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College says that the military brass now know that Israel “and those traitors within our nation” committed the 911 attack.

……”I have had long conversations over the last two weeks with contacts at the Army War College and the headquarters, Marine Corps and I’ve made it absolutely clear in both cases that it is 100% certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation.” Period.

– New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released (PRNewswire)

– Israel Threatening To Use Nuclear Weapons On Iran! (FOX NEWS)

– Ex-Mossad Agent Ostrovsky: The ‘Anti-Semite’ Label

– Former Israeli Minister: ‘It’s a Trick, We Always Use It.’ (calling people ‘anti-Semitic’)

– UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza

– Palestinian children are stoned while walking to school (Christian Peacemaker Teams)

– Israel admits organ harvesting from Palestinians, and others, without consent (Guardian)

– UN assembly votes for probes of Gaza war crimes charges (Reuters)

– U.N. rights envoy: Israeli war crime of the greatest magnitude under international law in Gaza (Reuters)

– U.S. shipped 989 munitions containers to Israel week before Gaza invasion (Australien Herald)

– Paul Craig Roberts: Israel and the Goldstone Report – War Criminals Are Becoming Arbiters of the Law (CounterPunch)

– Israel’s war crimes in Gaza (Independent)