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In a letter to megadonor Haim Saban, Hillary Clinton says she will do all she can to oppose the boycott divestment and sanctions movement, because Israel is nothing like South Africa, it’s a “miracle” she fell in love with more than 30 years ago and has defended again and again.
The US was the only country in the world to oppose a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for war crimes, at the 29th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held from 15 June to 3 July 2015. The US voted against “ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in” the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
In the afterglow of the United Church of Christ’s landslide vote to approve divestment and boycotts targeting occupation-complicit businesses last week, many close observers expected the Mennonite Church USA (MCUSA) to follow suit at their national gathering in Kansas City, Missouri, last week. But rather than add to the momentum of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, Mennonite delegates voted to delay any action until the church’s next convention in two years.
Marking the first anniversary of Israel’s 51 day assault on Gaza last summer, Block the Factory activists in the UK protested at 3 Elbit Systems arms factories in the UK this morning and successfully shut one down for the day.
A new religious venture, Tzedek Chicago, is headed by the rebellious, anti-Zionist and Psalmist, Rabbi Brant Rosen. “We reject the view that any one people, ethnic group or nation is entitled to any part of our world more than any other.”
Israeli company Elbit makes drones in the UK, and Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine is proud to join the national demonstration today in Britain against the armsmaker on the anniversary of last year’s onslaught on Gaza
Michael Oren, who was supposed to win Jewish Americans back for Israel, actually doesn’t respect them.