In “Boycott goes prime-time in Israel,” Larry Derner at +972 reports that the country’s leading news broadcast, Channel 2, covered the boycott movement in a fair manner, and attributed its growing success (it is damaging many Israeli businesses) not to anti-Semitism but to Israel’s policy of colonizing the West Bank.
And the show stated that the Israeli government is countering the movement with tired hasbara — propaganda — as always. I.e., that’s what leading American TV shows are giving Americans re boycott… Israeli propaganda. Derfner:
On Saturday night the boycott of Israel gained an impressive new level of mainstream recognition in this country. Channel 2 News, easily the most watched, most influential news program here, ran a heavily-promoted, 16-minute piece on the boycott in its 8 p.m. prime-time program. The piece was remarkable not only for its length and prominence, but even more so because it did not demonize the boycott movement, it didn’t blame the boycott on anti-Semitism or Israel-bashing. Instead, top-drawer reporter Dana Weiss treated the boycott as an established, rapidly growing presence that sprang up because of Israel’s settlement policy and whose only remedy is that policy’s reversal…
Weiss likewise ridicules Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin, who runs the government’s “hasbara war,” as he puts it. Weiss: “Yes, in the Foreign Ministry they are for the time being sticking to the old conception: it’s all a question of hasbara. This week the campaign’s new weapon, developed with the contributions of world Jewry: (Pause) Another hasbara agency, this time with the original name ‘Face To Israel.’” She quotes the co-owner of Psagot Winery saying the boycott is “nothing to get excited about,” that people have been boycotting Jews for 2,000 years, and concluding, “If you ask me, in the last 2,000 years, our situation today is the best it’s ever been.” That final phrase, along with what Weiss describes as Elkin’s “conceptzia,” are the same infamous words that Israelis associate with the fatal complacency that preceded the surprise Yom Kippur War.
This is good , good news.Thanks to all those Israel hating anti semites at 60 minutes.
It is all oozing out slowly but surely.No amount of hasbara land fill will keep this dam from bursting.
The fact that the Israeli media starts to cover the story of the BDS movement and the boycott campaign, means that this issue became main issue in Israel. Many here, including members of parliament and governmental institutions, understand that the boycott is another kind of war against Israel, and in war like in war – Israel will soon take off the gloves and win this war as we won all the wars against us in the past.
They are using really knackered canards that worked in the past
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE
There’s a far better original (that explains where they are now )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I
And they can’t compete with whatever Gen we are onto now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiumJ_nDkhs
And frankly they can go fuck themselves like any other failing company has to. Motorola and Nokia had to do it. Why should Zionism be any different? .
Listen to Netanyahu age 28. It’s essentially unchanged for 2014- check out Hoph’s posts. And it’s 100% bilge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrvK01XAvF8
As Galbraith said about monetary policy in the 30s, hasbara is a very thin reed against which to lean.
Instead, top-drawer reporter Dana Weiss treated the boycott as an established, rapidly growing presence that sprang up because of Israel’s settlement policy and whose only remedy is that policy’s reversal
No, I support BDS because the organs of political Zionism (the Jewish Agency, the JNF, the WZO, and the State of Israel) have always employed a widespread and systematic program of racial discrimination and segregation. It ultimately targets all non-Jews living anywhere in “Eretz Israel” for displacement, deportation, or domination, while denying them equal civil, political, and fundamental human rights.