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URGENT BUYcott Israel Alert: Shop AHAVA at The Bay

January 11th, 2011

The Bay department stores across Canada have been targeted by boycotters for carrying AHAVA Beauty Products from Israel. The store is under enormous pressure to drop the line.

It is URGENT that you visit your local Bay and purchase AHAVA products within the next 48 hours. Be sure to thank the store for carrying AHAVA.

As well, please write to The Bay executives, urging them to continue stocking AHAVA products:

Richard Baker, Chairman,

Bonnie Brooks, President and CEO

Shelley Rozenwald, Director of Beauty Products

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BUYcott Israel Success at Lord and Taylor in Boston

December 13th, 2010

We’re pleased to report another BUYcott Israel success story! Ahava products sold out at Lord and Taylor in Boston this weekend.

Congratulations to Israel supporters in Boston and across the U.S. who participated in this BUYcott Israel event. BDS fails…again!

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BUYcott Israel Alert: Shop Lord and Taylor & Ahava

December 8th, 2010

Calling all Boston & US BUYcott members. We need your help!

Code Pink is organizing a boycott event at Lord & Taylor, 760 Boylston St, Boston, on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010, 1:00 – 2:00 pm. The boycott is aimed at Ahava products.

You know what to do! Hurry down to Lord and Taylor this week. Buy as much Ahava product as you can – it’s great for teacher and hostess gifts! Take a picture in the checkout line, or better still at a sold-out display shelf, and email it to in**@***********el.ca or post it on our Facebook page.

In Montreal, when Ahava was targeted, BUYcotters sold out the entire stock at The Bay. Let’s show them that what worked in Montreal will work in Boston too!

This week, BUYcott Ahava products at Lord and Taylor in Boston, and coast-to-coast! Not in the US? Be sure to tell your American friends and family about this BUYcott alert.

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Support Le Marcheur Shoe Store in Montreal

November 19th, 2010

Message from the Executive Director of the Quebec-Israel Committee, Luciano G. Del Negro: Continue Reading →

A Visit to a Gaza Rocket Factory

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No wonder NASA showed such interest in reaching out to the Islamic world a few months ago. It is an entire culture that has no education or interests beyond making rockets around the clock. The problem is, they only land on Jews. I guess that is the new final frontier.

Eeyore

From Spiegel.Se

By Ulrike Putz in the Gaza Strip

No matter what Israel does, the rockets from the Gaza Strip just keep coming. Young men like Abdul are the reason why. He studies by day, but at night he builds bombs for the Islamic Jihad. He and his fellow militants can produce up to 100 per night.

The young man pulls the door of the taxi closed. He is wet. There is a light drizzle in the Gaza Strip. He turns around and greets the passengers in the back seat with a quick handshake. “Are you ready?” he asks them. “As of this moment, we could be going to paradise at any time.” The other people in the car don’t respond, and the driver of the Mercedes hits the gas. “I should have phoned my wife,” he says after a while. “She should start to keep an eye out for a new husband.”

It’s a long journey through the pitch-dark night as the taxi heads towards the secret rocket factory in the Gaza Strip. Since Abdul* and his two friends got in, it has become a life-threatening trip. The young men produce rockets for the Islamic Jihad. Day after day, their rudimentary bombs land on Israeli villages, fields and kibbutzim. Israel responds by using air strikes to kill the Qassam commandos. The attacks mostly target cars that carry the militants to their missions — cars like the one we are traveling in this evening.

The car is traveling north in the direction of the Israeli border. The men make jokes about the virgins that according to Islamic belief are awaiting them in paradise: gallows humor. One holds a pistol in the face of the stranger: “I just wanted to see if you would be frightened.” It’s now pouring outside, the taxi’s windows are so fogged that the promised blindfold is no longer necessary. It is impossible to tell where the car is; it’s just clear that the houses outside are looking increasingly poor. Next to dark windows there are posters honoring the “martyrs,” the Palestinians killed in the struggle with Israel. Smoldering campfires that appear between the massive puddles light the way.

The Fertilizer Comes from Israel

The vehicle finally stops at a dirt track. The Islamic Jihad rocket factory is housed in a kind of garden shed. The hut measures five meters by five meters, metal pipes with small wings lean against the wall in the corner: Half finished Qassams. There are several tightly packed garbage bags on a shelf. “TNT,” says Abdul and produces a chunk. The explosive looks like lumpy sugar. A large cauldron is sitting ready on a gas cooker while bags with Hebrew writing are piled up high up against the wall. “Fertilizer for the rocket fuel,” Abdul says and grins. “We get it in Israel.”

For the rest of this article and the photos that accompany it please click here for the original Spiegel article

STRATFOR: Israel: 2 Arrested For Plot To Attack Football Stadium

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Israel: 2 Arrested For Plot To Attack Football Stadium
January 2, 2011
Two Arabs have been arrested for their suspected involvement in a plot to fire a rocket into a Jerusalem football stadium along with three other men who sold them the firearms, according to a statement released Jan. 2 by Israel’s Shin Bet, AFP reported. The two Arabs, Mussa Hamada and Bassem Omari, an Israeli citizen, had been active for several years in Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood operations in Jerusalem, the security service said. They had received support from the Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia, the statement said, adding that they have been formally charged with membership in and support for a terrorist organization, firearms offenses, and conspiracy to commit a crime. The three other men have been charged with weapons trafficking.

WikiLeaks: antisemitic campaign to shut Libyan M&S

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Also from THEJC.COM

By Jennifer Lipman, December 21, 2010
The Libyan store is still open. The Libyan store is still open

The Libyan government attempted to force the Tripoli branch of retail chain Marks & Spencer to close using a “repugnant antisemitic” smear campaign and “pseudo-populist rhetoric against ‘the forces of Zionism’”, according to documents released by WikiLeaks.

US embassy cables reveal that in the aftermath of the opening of the store – the first Marks & Spencer branch in Africa – Libyan officials subjected the company to “persistent antisemitic rhetoric” and even warned that a businessman linked with the chain could be killed.

In a US embassy report from Tripoli, dated June 18 2008, two months after the store opened, the writer said: “In Libya, major business deals are both political and personal.”

Despite the fact that, according to the cable, by 2008 Marks & Spencer was no longer on the list of companies the Arab League sought to boycott, the report said: “Libyan officials at the highest levels,” were publicly attacking the retailer.

Notes classified by Chris Stevens of the US embassy in Tripoli showed: “The Libyan government’s public narrative has taken the form of…alleging that the company is a ‘Zionist entity’ with Jewish origins that supports Israel and ‘the killing of Palestinians’.”

The report warned that the row was doing damage to Libya’s ties with the UK and that: “The ensuing test of wills reportedly has the potential to end in violence.” Continue Reading →

An extraordinary debate on Israel and antisemitism from Russian TV

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Featuring the Thorazine poster boy, Norman Finkelstein and others. I am awaiting some links that should expose the agenda of Finkelstein more clearly for those who do not already know who he is. I will update this post when I get them.

For a great documentary on Islam, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Hitler, please click here for a well made German documentary on exactly that.

Egypt arrests 4 citizens over spying for Israel

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Any bets as to the truth of this AP report?

December 20, 2010 – 5:21am
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) – Egyptian authorities arrested four suspects on suspicion of spying for Israel and plotting to damage the economy by kidnapping tourists, a security official said.

The official revealed Sunday that the suspects, all Egyptian nationals, set up offices in Egypt, Britain, Israel, and Gaza to allegedly record officials’ phone conversations and collect information about Japanese and Chinese tourists visiting the Sinai Peninsula.

The plan, according to the official, was for agents of Israel to then briefly kidnap the tourists, disrupting the Egypt’s vital tourism sector and damaging the economy.

Israel said that it had no information about the case. Continue Reading →

Two women stabbed, one to death, in Israel. CTV sanitizes the attackers

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As usual, CTV, like most Canadian media, deliberately omits the description given by the surviving attack victim of the two Arab men who killed one tourist, and stabbed the Israeli tour guide repeatedly. A logical policy after years of critical theory infecting all areas of academia.

From STRATFOR:

Israel: Body Of Missing U.S. Tourist Found
December 19, 2010
Israeli security forces have found the body of Christine Logan, a U.S. tourist believed to have been kidnapped Dec. 18 by Arab assailants while hiking with a friend near Jerusalem, Haaretz reported Dec. 19. Logan’s friend, a 46-year-old British immigrant named Kaye Susan Wilson, managed to escape the attackers by pretending to be dead after suffering multiple stab wounds. According to Wilson, she and Logan were hiking at Khirbet Hanut, near Beit Shemesh, when they were assaulted by two Arab men. Security forces, including Israel Defense Forces and border police troops, launched a manhunt for Logan shortly after Wilson reported the attack, and Shin Bet and the police are currently investigating the possible presence of terrorism cells in the area. The search for the assailants is ongoing.

JORDAN, THE STATE OF THE PALESTINIANS

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Which is Palestinian
and which is Jordanian?

On the same day Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, delivered a speech in Tel Aviv where he declared that Jordan is indeed the state of the Palestinians, the Argentinean government also made a declaration, it said it recognized a Palestinian state in pre-1967 borders of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Both statements caused a stir in many places around the world.

PVV Dutch MP, Geert Wilders:
“Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan.”

In light of the far reaching ramifications of both statements, they should be then scrutinized for their veracity and historical factuality. First of all, is Jordan a Palestinian state? When looking at the map of the British mandate for what was known then as “Palestine”, it becomes quite clear what area was originally earmarked for the Jewish homeland.

At the end of the First World War, the division of responsibilities for the administering of the Middle East areas fell to the various Western powers victorious over the Ottoman Turks, as mandates, under the auspices of the League of Nations, it was during that time that the famous Balfour Declaration was made:

November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely,

Arthur James Balfour

The Balfour Declaration was accepted by the British Mandate in 1917, which then became subject to a White Paper that many believe reneged on it’s earlier promise, that being a commitment to allowing Jews a homeland. But the paper did insist however that:

“the Jewish community should know that it is in Palestine as of right and not on the sufferance. That is the reason why it is necessary that the existence of a Jewish National Home in Palestine should be internationally guaranteed, and that it should be formally recognized to rest upon ancient historic connection.”

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