BDS Campaign
@PACBI
Official Site of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel - PACBI
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יום ראשון, 23 באוגוסט 2015
יום חמישי, 20 באוגוסט 2015
Gen. Dempsey: Iran will use sanctions relief to promote revolutionary ideology'
“The big question on the table is whether this relief of sanctions that will flow to Iran will be used to improve their economy or the lives of their citizens, or whether they will use it to propagate their revolutionary ideology,” Gen. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told members of the Irish Defense Force in Dublin on August 18. “The answer is probably a little bit of both.”
A day after the nuclear deal was announced, President Obama admitted that Iran will likely use sanctions relief money to fund terrorist organizations it uses as surrogates such as the anti-American, anti-Semitic group Hezbollah, which was founded in the early 1980s with the help of Ayatollah Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini in an effort to export Iran’s Islamic Revolution.
Ayatollah Khomeini is the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Iran is able to maintain its commitment to Khomeini’s doctrine of jihad and export Revolution by supporting terrorist organizations.
Under the July 14 nuclear pact between Iran, the United States, and five other world powers, the Islamic Republic is expected to reap significant economic benefits, given that many sanctions levied against Iran will be suspended as Iran’s commitments to complying with restrictions on its nuclear program are verified.
Some analysts estimate that as much as $150 billion in Iranian assets could be unfrozen once the sanctions are lifted.
Obama analysts claim that Iran will have about $56 billion at its disposal after paying its outstanding financial obligations, such as the billions it owes China for infrastructure projects.
Iran continues to conduct malign activities that U.S. officials acknowledge are a cause of concern. Those activities include the use of proxies such as the Lebanese-based Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF), as well as proliferating ballistic missile technology, cyberattacks, weapons trafficking, and maritime interdiction.
Gen. Dempsey indicated that the question now is whether the international community can separate the nuclear issue from Iran’s nefarious activities.
The issue with Iran is “to be determined,” said Gen. Dempsey.
Citing the administration’s “best analysts,” President Obama on August 5 claimed that Iran will devote the bulk of its sanctions relief revenue to “spending that improves the economy and benefits the lives of the Iranian people.”
Nevertheless, during that same speech, he acknowledged that the Islamic Republic will use some of the money to proliferate its terrorist activities.
“Let’s stipulate that some of that money will flow to activities that we object to… Iran supports terrorist organizations like Hezbollah,” conceded the U.S. president. “It supports proxy groups that threaten our interests and the interests of our allies — including proxy groups who killed our troops in Iraq.”
“The truth is that Iran has always found a way to fund these efforts, and whatever benefit Iran may claim from sanctions relief pales in comparison to the danger it could pose with a nuclear weapon,” he added.
On July 15, a day after the deal was announced, Obama made similar acknowledgements.
“Do we think that with the sanctions coming down, that Iran will have some additional resources for its military and for some of the activities in the region that are a threat to us and a threat to our allies? I think that is a likelihood that they’ve got some additional resources,” said President Obama. “Do I think it’s a game-changer for them? No.”
“They are currently supporting Hezbollah, and there is a ceiling — a pace at which they could support Hezbollah even more, particularly in the chaos that’s taking place in Syria,” he added. “So can they potentially try to get more assistance there? Yes.”
Hezbollah maintains a prominent presence in the Western Hemisphere.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/08/20/gen-dempsey-iran-will-use-sanctions-relief-to-promote-revolutionary-ideology/
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יום שישי, 14 באוגוסט 2015
Joseph Massad Professor Columbia University
Joseph Massad
Occupation: Professor
University: Columbia
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Overview
Joseph Massad is Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia.
Massad is vocal about his anti-Israel positions in his lectures at Cornell. Included in his opinions are that Israel has no right to be a Jewish State and the claim that Zionist leaders worked together with Nazi's during the Holocaust.
Of his numerous articles, one that was published on the Al Jazeera website titled, 'The Last of the Semites,' came under a torrent of fire. Prominent journalist Jeffrey Goldberg described it as "one of the most anti-Jewish screeds in recent memory." Even the anti-Israel website Mondoweiss ran an article calling Massad's claims "a tough sell." Al Jazeera took the article down following the objections and later returned it accompanied by a tentative and lengthy editorial.
In 2004, an Israel-activism organization, the David Project, produced an exposé film- Columbia Unbecoming, in which students of the university gave testimony that Massad and other Columbia professors had either intimidated or treated them unfairly because of their pro-Israel views.
In 2011, a Jewish student claimed she was discouraged by a Barnard University professor from taking one of Massad's courses who informed her that partaking in it would be 'uncomfortable' for her, due to the extreme anti-Israel content.
University: Columbia
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יום שני, 10 באוגוסט 2015
Gaza Palestinian terror state
As Islamic terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East sink to new levels of brutality, the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis and launched thousands of rockets at the Jewish state, finds itself facing a threat to its rule in Gaza.
Over the last month, Islamic State-inspired jihadist groups in Gaza, who ironically argue that Hamas has been too lenient towards Israel and has failed to implement Islamic Sharia Law, have launched a campaign entailing both propaganda and physical attacks on Hamas.
A Salafi terror group that calls itself the “Supporters of the Islamic State in Jerusalem” recently threatened Hamas with a 72-hour ultimatum to release imprisoned Salafi extremists detained by Hamas or face attacks, after Hamas destroyed a mosque belonging to the group and arrested several of its members.
The Salafi jihadists followed up on their calls by launching mortar attacks on a Hamas base in southern Gaza and other attacks on Hamas security posts. Hamas has responded with a large crackdown, setting up checkpoints and deploying gunmen in Salafi strongholds.
“At this time, they (the Islamic State supporters in Gaza) are marginal, I don’t think they have the overwhelming public support that some of the recent headlines suggest,” Neri Zilber—a visiting scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy focusing on the Middle East peace process, with an emphasis on Palestinian economics and state-building—told JNS.org.
“There is ongoing public disenchantment against Hamas inside of Gaza,” said Zilber. “Their popularity did spike after the [last summer’s] war [with Israel], as a sort of ‘rally around the flag’ effect. But conditions inside of Gaza are still quite terrible and much worse than they were before the war.”
The presence of Salafi groups in Gaza is not a new phenomenon, with several such groups operating in the coastal enclave for years. Salafism is a fundamentalist movement in Islam closely tied to or used interchangeably with Wahhabism, which is a Saudi-based ideology that has inspired Islamic extremists groups like al-Qaeda. The word “Salafi” comes from the Arabic root Salaf, meaning “predecessors” or “ancestors.” Salafis believe in the strict interpretation of Islam that upholds the Prophet Muhammad and the early Muslims who fought with him as the truest form of Islam. While Salafis have been present in Gaza going back to the 1980s, they have only more recently become more organized and thus determined to wage violent jihad.
Like the Islamic State terrorists operating in Syria and Iraq, the Salafi jihadists in Gaza do not recognize national boundaries and instead call for a global Caliphate. While they do share Hamas’s goal of the destruction of Israel, they view Hamas’s ideology as too nationalist and narrowly focused on the Palestinian cause.
These Salafi jihadists are largely “indigenous groups who have grown discontent with Hamas’s rule and their more limited and nationalistic ideology,” the Washington Institute’s Zilber told JNS.org.
For many years, Hamas tolerated the Salafi jihadists, but recently these groups have become more antagonistic towards Hamas. In particular, the Salafi jihadists have criticized Hamas for its truces with Israel after conflicts in 2009 and 2012.
Salafi jihadists have also been involved in rocket attacks against Israel over the years. In December 2014, Hamas arrested Salafi jihadists for launching a rocket at Israel. Nevertheless, Israel holds Hamas—which is the local governing body—accountable for any rocket attacks coming from Gaza.
“They (the Salafi jihadists) are also up against a very formidable Hamas security apparatus in Gaza,” Zilber said. “As far as domestic security services inside the Strip, they (Hamas) are by far the most powerful actor.”
At the same time, after decades of neglect by the Egyptian government, the nearby Sinai Peninsula has become a hotbed of Islamic extremist activity.
In 2014, the Sinai-based terror group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis pledged loyalty to the Islamic State and has carried out Islamic State-style executions such as decapitations of Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai. Since then, the group has now referred to itself as Wilayet Sinai (Province of Sinai), in reference to it being a Sinai-based branch of Islamic State.
The Egyptian military, with tacit cooperation from Israel, has launched a major campaign to exterminate terror groups in the Sinai and to weaken Hamas in Gaza. Both Hamas and its parent group, the Muslim Brotherhood, are Egyptian government-designated terror groups.
Despite the growing threat of Salafi jihadists, Hamas officials have denied that Islamic State has a real presence in Gaza.
“There is nothing called the Islamic State in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri recently said, Reuters reported.
“We do not fight people because of what they think, but at the same time, we do not allow any violations of security, whether by groups or individuals,” he said.
Yet the Salafi jihadists in Gaza—like Islamic terrorists in Libya, Nigeria, and the Sinai—have sought Islamic State’s blessings in their quest for affiliation with the terror group. The Salafis are making their presence known on social media, threatening Hamas with more attacks.
“They were inspired by the presence of ISIS (Islamic State) in Iraq and Syria and moreover in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula,” Hani Habib, a Gaza-based political analyst, told Reuters.
Ironically, the menace of the Islamic State supporters may boost Hamas’s chances for survival, since Israel and others may see Hamas as a relatively stabilizing presence in Gaza compared to Islamic State.
“On a certain level, having these reports of Islamic State unrest in Gaza, it does serve one of [Hamas’s] purposes, which is that Hamas is the only one standing between the Islamic State and the complete chaos in the Gaza Strip,” Zilber told JNS.org.
For Israel, which has fought a series of deadly wars with Hamas, the Palestinian terror group’s presence in Gaza has been a serious threat to national security. But has Hamas’s governance of Gaza also created some stability? In a recent address to Israeli community leaders at Kibbutz Nahal Oz near the Israeli border with Gaza, Israel Defense Forces southern commander Maj. Gen. Sami Turgeman acknowledged as much, saying he sees no immediate alternative to Hamas’s rule in Gaza and does not believe it is possible to defeat Hamas in month-long military campaigns like last summer’s Operation Protective Edge.
“Gaza has an independent authority that functions like a country; there is a government and an annual plan, with executive bodies and inspection authorities,” Turgeman said, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
“Most of the citizens in the Strip see Hamas as the only solution to their problems,” he said. “Whoever thinks there could be a national uprising—it doesn’t look likely. The chances it could happen are not high.”
Zilber said that there is “an ongoing debate in the Israeli political and military establishment about the best way forward in Gaza.” The analyst explained that some in Israel are advocating for maintaining the status quo of the blockade of Gaza and periodically fighting wars against Hamas, while preventing a humanitarian disaster in Gaza. Others support signing a long-term deal with Hamas, and allowing greater reconstruction and rehabilitation of Gaza to ensure a more enduring calm.
Over the last several months, it appears that Israel has taken the middle ground in Gaza, easing up on some restrictions such as exports of fruits and vegetables and allowing a greater number of reconstruction materials into the area.
“In actual terms, Israel’s policy has shifted greatly since the end of the war,” Zilber said. “It’s not a full scale hudna (Islamic long-term truce), but there has been a significant easing of some restrictions.”
Going forward for Israel, as the region becomes increasingly violent and unstable, it might be better to have the devil you know, Hamas, than the devil you don’t know, the Salafi jihadists.
“I think the middle ground will win out, while edging slightly more towards [IDF southern commander] Turgeman’s realpolitik assessment of ‘every couple of years we will have to fight a war against Hamas,’” said Zilber.
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יום ראשון, 9 באוגוסט 2015
Leean Othman - involved with Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement
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“FREE PALESTINE!! and end the occupation...innocent palestinians are suffering everyday while the jews are enjoying the pain. Plz understand the truth the palestinians are being targeted because they think we r weak..WELL WE RNT!! There r millions ..especially children, babies dying..plz help send the real message to the world!! not the fake msg sent by the media who hides the truth...help the real people in need...FREE PALESTINE!! Ive been to Pstine .. i will never forget the things i saw...”
Leean Othman
Occupation: Student
University: Marquette
Organization(s): SJP, BDS
Close Connection(s): Rawan Atari, Ahmad Murrar
University: Marquette
Organization(s): SJP, BDS
Close Connection(s): Rawan Atari, Ahmad Murrar
Overview
Leean Othman is a student at Marquette University majoring in Criminology & Law Studies and Minoring in Philosophy
and Arabic.
and Arabic.
SJP
Othman was the Vice President of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Marquette University.
SJP was co-founded by Hatem Bazian and Snehal Shingavi in 2001 at UC Berkeley. Their intention was to advance the radical anti-Israel mission of the Muslim Students Association (MSA), but now masked as a secular organization.
SJP runs targeted and well-orchestrated campaigns against Israel including Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolutions, Israel-Apartheid initiatives, drives comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, mock check-points, "die-ins" as well as rallies and protests.
SJP runs targeted and well-orchestrated campaigns against Israel including Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolutions,Israel-Apartheid initiatives, drives comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, mock check-points, "die-ins" as well as rallies and protests.
SJP chapters regularly host speakers who engage in language considered anti-Semitic by the U.S. State Department. Chapter events routinely include individuals and organizations who are linked to terrorist activity and call for violence against Jews.
SJP members frequently intimidate and harass pro-Israel supporters. Members have been responsible for physically assaulting Jewish students, vandalizing communal propertyand violently disrupting pro Israel speakers and events. Protests organized by SJP chapters regularly include hate-speech and chants such as "From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free" - calling for the destruction of the Jewish State.
SJP demonizes and defames critics, branding attacks against them as “Islamophobic” - a term popularized by co-founder Hatem Bazian.
SJP, along with the MSA, is rapidly creating a hostile andunsafe environment on US campuses for all who do not share their radical anti-Israel views. For this reason, they have been labeled by some as “Hamas on Campus.”
BDS
Othman was heavily involved in the 2015 MU Divest campaign as part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on the Marquette campus.
The divestment resolution drafted in April 2015 targeted Israeli-linked companies including United Technologies, Caterpillar, G4S and Hewlett-Packard. SJP had 13 co-sponsoring student organizations and garnered over 700 signatures from faculty, alumni, and students in support of the resolution.
The executive session to debate and vote on the resolution took place behind closed doors and was not recorded after the student government president revealed a document that had been circulating the Marquette campus containing personal information about the student government senators, including their religion and political beliefs. It also contained assignments and plans of action to solicit their support for specific issues. SJP members and other non-student government campaigners were forced to wait outside.
The resolution passed with a 25-3-0 vote. However, all references to Israel and the companies targeted for divestment were removed from the bill, as well as the word “divestment.” The new resolution became a generic recommendation for the university to implement socially responsible investing, negating the efforts of MU Divest.
In response, Atari wrote an article for the anti-Israel blog website Mondoweiss in which she criticized “attempts by student senators to remove the Palestinian voice entirely” and gave anaudio interview with Electronic Intifada. When asked "How is SJP fighting back?," Atari replied that "We have been building coalitions. We have been taking initiatives in other ways, not just divestment... there is an ad- hoc coalition started at Marquette called "coalition of the colored students at Marquette (Coalition SOC)." A lot of SJP members are part of this coalition. We have been fighting this repression of our voices.“
On the same day the divestment vote took place, four members of Coalition SOC, two of which were were wearing MU Divest clothing were arrested for a blocking an intersection after an organised march which drew a large crowd of students, faculty, public safety and police officers. A week after the vote, SJP organised a sit in in which members of the MU Divest coalition walked into the Marquette University student government offices with black tape over their mouths.
The BDS movement was founded in 2005 by Omar Barghouti. The movement is self-described as "a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights.”
Campaigns include compelling institutions and individuals todivest from Israeli-affiliated companies, academic boycotts as well as physical rallies and protests.
The groups most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for "BDS resolutions. In these cases, backed by university anti-Israel affiliates, the university student government has been brought to vote on some sort of boycott of and divestment from Israel and Israeli-affiliated organizations. These resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It is documented that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitism on campus. In 2013, the student government of the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) debated a BDS resolution. Reports emerged of threats of violence, the spitting on a female student senator, and theft of the personal property of anti-BDS activists. As a result, the student government chose to vote via a "secret ballot" in order to ensure their own safety.
Barghouti and the BDS movement are proponents of the radical "one-state solution" that has been denounced as a scheme to dissolve Israel as the Jewish State. Barghouti has been quoted as saying, "Good riddance! The two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is finally dead”, and that in a one-state “by definition, Jews will be a minority.”
The organization is affiliated with numerous anti-Israel groups worldwide, including ones that have been labeled terrorist organizations. The Jerusalem Post claims the BDS movement receives directives from Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and the movement is considered extreme even by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas who stated his opposition to a BDS boycott of Israel in 2013.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leean.othman
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/leeano/
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