Indeed. Find out the truth and cut through the Leftist and Islamic disinformation and propaganda in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process.
“The UN should be ashamed of its anti-Israel boycott list,” by Stephen Daisley, Spectator, February 17, 2020:
I knew if we waited long enough, the United Nations would make itself useful. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has produced a handy catalogue of companies that supporters of Israel can give their business to. Of course, this was not Michelle Bachelet’s intention. Bachelet is the commissioner and before that she was an exquisitely unpopular Chilean politician and head of UN Women, the all-girl Ghostbusters of UN agencies that fights global mistreatment of women by putting out hashtags and putting Saudi Arabia on its executive board.
Now Bachelet has released ‘a database of all business enterprises involved in certain specified activities related to the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’. She does not mean to celebrate their commitment to serving customers and clients in sometimes dangerous environments. No, her roster was compiled at the request of the UN Human Rights Council. This is a body in which countries whose idea of human rights is gender-neutral torture and equal-opportunity ballot-rigging get together and pass reams of vexatious resolutions against Israel.
Bachelet’s list doesn’t explicitly encourage the blackballing of companies mentioned. But it is a nod and a wink to the methods of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement. It’s too obvious to be clever but it’s still sly: a coycott, rather than a boycott.
BDS’s economic warfare against the Jewish state has had little success but that’s not the point: a UN body is tacitly legitimising its agenda and even doing the research for it. The UN’s obsession with this tiny strip of land on the shores of the Mediterranean has nothing to do with human rights. If Vlad the Impaler were around today he’d be a special rapporteur on exsanguination and no one in Geneva would see anything untoward about it. What OHCHR’s list is about is the UN’s institutional hostility towards Israel and support for ‘de-judaising’ Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria.
Jerusalem is Israel’s capital; before that it was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Judah (Israel 1.0). However hard the UN strives to erase the Jewish character of the city, its historical record isn’t going anywhere. Judea and Samaria are what Turtle Bay calls ‘the Occupied Palestinian Territories’, though when Israel captured them in 1967, they did so not from any state called Palestine (no such state has ever existed), but from Jordan. Jordan, in turn, had captured them in 1948, during the Israeli War of Independence (and renamed them ‘the West Bank’ in the process). Jordan’s annexation was almost universally unrecognised — it was…what’s the phrase…an illegal occupation…and prior to this these lands had been part of Mandatory Palestine. Mandatory Palestine was created by the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine to ‘secure the establishment of the Jewish national home’. The Israelis have innovations – agrarian, medical and technological – to their name but perhaps their greatest feat is being the first nation-state in history to illegally occupy their own territory….
jca reid says
Should take over Palestine as well 7 give back its ORIGINAL name: JUDEA!! That would p*ss some people off!! They’d make a far better job of running it than the present crowd! By the by… folk may not like that comment, that’s their problem, but…. can they name one Democracy in the Middle East? The only one really is Israel.
Hoppla says
We have a modern, European version of Israel. The Sephardi (so called because of their centuries in Spain during the first Caliphate Empire) Jews are descended from the Arabic original Jews. The Israeli term for these Arabic original Jews are the Mizrahi. The majority are Ashkenazim, more than 80% of whom are solely descended from Eastern and Central Europe. They are descended mostly from converts. There is a scientific proof from genetic studies. This study appeared in the New York Times;
gravenimage says
This is more of the usual claptrap–Jews are somehow not really Jews, so they all deserve to be murdered by Muslims.
Anjuli Pandavar says
A few months back, the EU threatened to impose labelling on Israeli products from Judea and Samaria as originating in “the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” or such like, at which point I resolved to buy any products I find so labelled, whether I need them or not. This list helps to make sure that I don’t miss Israeli goods produced in Judea and Samaria, and even helps me to better look out for them. Thanks, UN.
mortimer says
Bravo. Let’s all buy products from Israel.
6woods says
I’ve done that for for years, whether, as Anjuli Pandavar says, I need those products or not.
James Lincoln says
Agree 100%, mortimer.
I’ve had some really great wine from Israel!
If someone could point me to a website that features some other great products from Israel, I’d really appreciate it…
carpediadem says
Exactly. Well said Anjuli!
Various proIsrael groups and other normal people have been using these lists to support Israel and buy excellent goods for themselves for years.
Let this happy tradition of turning boycott water into BUYCOTT wine continue! 🙂
gravenimage says
Yes–I am *more* inclined to buy products from Israel.
mortimer says
A fabulous quote: Israel’s “greatest feat is being the first nation-state in history to illegally occupy their own territory”.
A terrific point about the ‘ILLEGAL OCCUPATION’ of the West Bank by Jordan until 1967. No one called the Jordanians names like ‘racist’ or ‘apartheid state’ when they invaded the West Bank.
Jordan is in fact an ‘apartheid state’. Officially, no Jews live there, but there are Jews there who keep a very low profile.
In other words, Jewish residents in Jordan are forced to be ‘invisible’. Jordan is de jure and de facto an ‘apartheid state’. So are the Pally-ruled areas. Such hypocrites.
In Israel, Jews and Arabs live and work openly side by side.
gravenimage says
Israel’s “greatest feat is being the first nation-state in history to illegally occupy their own territory”
……………….
Yes–how crazy is this? I haven’t seen any nation as slandered as is civilized Israel.
Infidel says
Yeah, they even beat the US, which is an achievement
gravenimage says
The “Great Satan” and the “Little Satan”…
Harry Again says
Err.. The Israelites stole the land from the Caananites and the Philistines as described in the bible. It was ethnically cleansed in an operation run by Joshua.
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
Harry Again
How many times have you really read the Bible? And which Bible did you read? Your comments indicate that you’ve either read the wrong Bible or you’re just drawing your own idiotic conclusion.
Enough said…..
Hoppla says
Sheeples don’t read the bible they are to busy listening to Hannity and Limbaugh.
gravenimage says
In other words, if you dare support civilized Israel against being destroyed by ravening Jihadists, you must be ignorant and illiterate…