The reason I am posting this video is what you will see and hear from 0:32-0:40: one of the speakers very nonchalantly saying that without support and funds, Israel would not continue to exist.

Notice he doesn’t say that without the support and funds, Israel would be forced to agree to a palestinian state living alongside her in peace and security. Because that’s simply not the BDSholes’ aim.

The BDSholes are getting very sloppy, lowering their guard and making such comments – as well as antisemitic ones – publicly. Despite the protestations of BDSholes like Patrick Harrison, the evidence is there for all to see, and people like me are going to continue to shine a light on them.

From today’s Haaretz:

Israeli researchers have discovered a chemical compound that could protect the eggs of women cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy. The researchers made the finding after learning what causes infertility among women with cancer and what destroys their eggs.

Must have been some kind of evil medical experiment gone awry. Couldn’t have had anything to do with this:

In 2005, Sheba was the first hospital in the world to report, in the New England Journal of Medicine, a baby born to a cancer patient who had had a portion of her ovaries removed and frozen for later use. But the procedure is not suited for all patients. It is also expensive and not always successful.

They’re totally incorrigible! Will they stop at nothing? Is no medical breakthrough safe from their slimy grasps?

UPDATE:

And now they’re trying to cure blindness as well! And this is just two announcements from today! BASTARDS!!!!

Always with good news, Good News from Israel has recently published a winner blog post.

For BDS, there is so much more than Israeli cell phone technology.

I liked this one enough to ask permission to repost here at IsraellyCool:

Dear BDS member.

By boycotting Israeli treatments and research you will cause the deaths of millions of children from Hepatitis B because they couldn’t have SciGen’s Sci-B-Vac only third-generation Hep B virus vaccine.  You would have to destroy the research by Hadassah Medical Organization that located the gene that causes recurrent life-threatening infections and bone marrow failure in children.  The babies born deformed and blind from ectodermal dysplasia cannot touch the gene therapy that Israel’s Technion has developed.  Children paralysed by the genetic brain disease Peripheral Neuropathy will just have to whistle for the medication developed by doctors at Hadassah Medical Center – except of course that they can’t whistle.

BDS members obviously have no wish to cure cancer.

And I really did not have to look too hard.

Last night at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman was honoured with the Key of Knowledge Award at a gala reception hosted by Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The award celebrated Freeman’s dedication to combating racism and promoting knowledge and education worldwide.

Not only did he attend the event, but he even looked very happy while doing so.

 Some might argue a little too happy.

Photo credits: George Pimentel

Note: It seems as though Hawking has boycotted Israel after all (read updates at end of post). But I am leaving post title and initial thoughts instead of scrubbing the post entirely. After all, maybe there will be a retraction of the retraction of the initial retraction. 

Well done to the BDSholes for managing to conjure up a BDS fail out of thin air.

Earlier today, The Guardian reported that Professor Stephen Hawking had backed the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of Shimon Peres’ Presidential conference as a protest over Israel’s treatment of palestinians. According to the report:

Hawking is in very poor health, but last week he wrote a brief letter to the Israeli president to say he had changed his mind. He has not announced his decision publicly, but a statement published by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine with Hawking’s approval described it as “his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there”.

This triggered much disappointment over Hawking’s stance, including this statement from Israeli Presidential Conference Chairman Israel Maimon..

“The academic boycott against Israel is in our view outrageous and improper, certainly for someone for whom the spirit of liberty lies at the basis of his human and academic mission. Israel is a democracy in which all individuals are free to express their opinions, whatever they may be. The imposition of a boycott is incompatible with open, democratic dialogue.”

As well as this excellent satirical piece (excerpted):

The eminent physicist and professor Stephen Hawking announced his decision to boycott particular theories of physics, it has been reported.

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In keeping with the academic boycott, Mr. Hawking will also abstain from using particular breakthroughs in theoretical physics, such as the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae, experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulating individual quantum systems, and the formulation of black holes entropy, since the scientists responsible for these innovations may be Zionists.

Perhaps my favorite comment came from Stephen Leavitt from Jewish Press, who said:

Maybe Hawking just prefers the innovations and gifts the Palestinians have brought to the world… big bangs

It also did not escape the attention of some that he would be boycotting a company working on his cure.

As it turns out, the righteous rightful indignation may have been premature. As The Commentator discovered:

New details about the cancellation of Professor Stephen Hawking’s trip to Israel have emerged today after numerous news reports claiming that Prof. Hawking had chosen to boycott the State of Israel.

The Guardian, which broke the story late last night, claimed that Hawking was due to boycott Israel after receiving an erroneous statement from the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP), apparently with Hawking’s approval.

The statement said that the move was “his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there”.

However, a Cambridge university spokesperson has confirmed to The Commentator that there was a “misunderstanding” this past weekend, and that Prof. Hawking had pulled out of the conference for medical reasons.

Responding to an e-mail including an open letter to Prof. Hawking, shared nearly 2000 times, a University spokesman said: “Professor Hawking will not be attending the conference in Israel in June for health reasons – his doctors have advised against him flying.”

When asked for further information, the spokesperson confirmed that the BRICUP organisation had “assumed” Hawking’s position on the matter, and that it was fundamentally untrue.

Email screenshot courtesy of CiFWatch blog

According to this report, Hawking’s spokesperson Tim Holt said he had asked BRICUP to remove the posting. As of the time of this post, the posting remains on their site:

So there you have it. The BDSholes not only lied, but also exploited Hawking’s illness. You don’t have to be Stephen Hawking to recognize the black hole that is their sense of morality.

Update: The thick plottens?

In case you doubted my story on #Hawking‘s #boycott of #Israel, I have now confirmed it again. Cambridge retraction soon @guardian #BDS

— Matthew Kalman (@MatthewKalman) May 8, 2013

Update: This now posted at the BRICUP site:

Update: It seems to be true after all.

Though original reports yesterday that Stephen Hawking cancelled his planned Israel trip in order to express support the academic boycott were (as we reported earlier today) flatly denied by Tim Holt, Acting Director of Communications at Cambridge and Hawking’s spokesperson, Holt recently informed us via an email of the following new statement just released by the University:

“We have now received confirmation from Professor Hawking’s office that a letter was sent on Friday to the Israeli President’s office regarding his decision not to attend the Presidential Conference, based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott.

“We had understood previously that his decision was based purely on health grounds having been advised by doctors not to fly.”

The “huge” crowd caught in action (SJP UNSW FB page)

Press TV had to characterize them as “rowdy” to compensate for the lack of numbers.

Here are the less-than-50-people in all their rowdy glory.

Additional fail points for the antisemitic comments appearing on the FB page, as well as their lame reaction to them.

Protester Lutfi Zayed, 20, accused Max Brenner of being complicit in Israeli war crimes, but denied the group was anti-semitic or had made anti-semitic comments on its Facebook page.

“Those comments made on Facebook, we don’t know about them,” he told AAP.

“What would you say about Islamaphobia on Facebook? We see that too.”

This, coming from someone who posted this on the FB page:

Looks like Zayed is speaking with forked tongue, with differing messages for the public and group members.

Update: More fail!

A KEY supporter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement has been caught on camera admitting “there isn’t really any connection” between Australian Max Brenner chocolate shops and Israel.Palestine Action Group spokesman Patrick Harrison made the admission in a video of a BDS protest last November at the Max Brenner outlet in Parramatta, in Sydney’s west, posted recently on YouTube by a graduate filmmaker

Update: Parenting fail (via Twitter):

Now the larger news outlets have had time to think about this and get the opinion of greater legal minds than this humble blogger.

And the answer seems to be, it is a victory, but only if you didn’t know anything about international law and the specifics of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Conventions.

Well I’d say that’s just about everyone on earth and doubly so for everyone who is deluded by BDS campaign lies!

As Alan Baker is quoted in the Times of Israel:

“I don’t know if you can call it a big victory or a small victory or a victory at all: it’s just confirmation of what Israel has been saying all the time, that there’s nothing inherently illegal about the fact that it’s administering the territory,” Baker told The Times of Israel. “This in itself is something that goes against a lot of the statements coming out of the Palestinians, who say that the occupation itself is an illegal occupation.”

A former Israeli ambassador to Canada, Baker is the co-author of the controversial Levy report, which asserts that the settlements are legal under international law and that Israel’s actions in the West Bank should thus not be considered an occupation.

“Why should I be surprised?” he asked, referring to the Versailles ruling. “I wouldn’t have expected anything else from a French court or any other court.”

As we’ve seen in the long running back and forth of the Karsenty trial concerning the Pallywood fraud around Mohammad Al Durah, justice in France can’t be assumed completely free of political bias.

So I’ll stand by my original pronouncement for now: whatever the technical details it is very helpful when a French court of good standing says, effectively, carry on everything is legal. We’re talking about the court of public opinion here, not just the hallowed halls of international legal conferences.

Companies can continue to build useful infrastructure for Jews and Arabs and the task of making Jerusalem a better city for everyone can continue. And the PA are caught in a barefaced lie so large they ran with it and embellished it all the way to a defeat at the hands of a French court!

And this is France remember, nobody is routinely saying some mythical “Jewish/ Zionist Lobby” in France is running the show (as they seem to be saying of the USA in Finland right now).

As to one point mentioned in the Times of Israel: the ruling says nothing much on the legality of settlements in the territory liberated from illegal Jordanian occupation. That is correct: so many of the so called settlers were just returning to areas they’d been thrown out of when Jordan invaded as Yisrael Medad says in a comment on the Times piece:

As regards Jewish communities, the whole point left-wingers and Arabs ignore, from a legal perspective, is that historically “settlements” already existed before 1967, well, prior to 1948, at which time it was the Arabs who commited crimes of ethnic cleansing and expelling Jews from Gaza, Shchem(Nablus), Jenin, Hebron, Gush Etzion, Neveh Yaakov, Bet HaAravah, Atarot and Jerusalem’s Old City and environs like Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood. Jews have not been “transferred in”; they were expelled and are returning to their former resisdential locations as part of the indigenous Jewish population over the past centuries.

So there. And for another opinion here is Eliyahu m’Tsiyon of Emet m’Tsiyon:

The author of the article, Raphael Ahren, fails to bring out that the Levy Report which Alan Baker was coauthor of states that Judea and Samaria are not occupied.

Frances Raday misses that point too and then speaks foolishly about the length of time of time of an occupation rendering it “illegal.” Actually, if it weren’t Israel involved, your “int’l legal experts” would  argue that the length of time that Israel has held Judea-Samaria dissolve the “occupation.”

That is, that the longer time passes, the less the area can be called occupied. Ahren is also rather thick on Geneva IV:49. As an article or report, Ahren’s work is poor, leaving out significant facts as well as the actual positions of those whom he interviewed.

And if you’re in the mood for 45 mins of legal explanation, here are a few truths about the legalities of Israel and the liberated territories that many could do with listening to and internalising.

Photo: Sharon A

News is breaking of a huge win in France. It’s a technical case but essentially a court has confirmed what most of us know to be true. It concerns the building of the light rail project in Jerusalem by Alsthom, Veolia and another firm.

The PLO/PA sued these firms in France indicating that they should not have taken the project.

The court has basically said Israeli “occupation” is not illegal and orders PLO/PA to pay court costs to Alsthom, Veolia, & another firm. The court costs add up to 90,000 euros.

The first reports are in French so here is a google translate version:

The Court of Appeal of Versailles (PLO c / Alstom and Veolia) concludes that the Israeli occupation is not illegal

Here is a study that friends of Israel must be preserved carefully in their archives.  France is not neutral in the conflict, and the judgment of the Court is of particular importance.

Veolia and Alstom built, following a call for tenders, the Jerusalem tramway through the city to the east, into the territories claimed by the PLO and the Palestinian Authority.

The PLO considers that the State of Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian land and continues an illegal Jewish settlement in the construction of the tram and is itself unlawful.

The legal arguments of the PLO removed one after another

Organization for the Liberation of Palestine has therefore embarked on a lengthy trial that just ended before the Court of Appeal of Versailles, March 13, 2013, by an overwhelming so inconvenient conclusions were spent hammering totally under silenced by the mainstream media to inform you loaded independently.

The occupation of Palestinian territory is not illegal

The PLO is based on international law and considers that Israel illegally occupies Palestinian territory and is pursuing an illegal Jewish settlement. The construction of the tram and itself illegal. In support, the PLO alleges infringement of several texts:

• Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 which states that “the Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
• Article 53, which states that “it is forbidden for an occupying power to destroy the real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons, the State or public authorities and social or cooperative organizations except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations. “

The PLO added that the construction has caused destruction, virtually removing the 60 vital road for Palestinians and their goods, removal of tracks and paths, and expropriations. There had therefore been a violation of several articles from the Regulations annexed to the Fourth Hague Convention of 18 October 1907:

• Article 23 (g) which prohibits “destroy or seize the enemy’s property except where such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war”
• Article 27 that “in sieges and bombardments all necessary steps must be taken to spare as far as possible buildings dedicated to religion, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals …”
• and Article 46, which states that “private property can not be confiscated.”

Finally, the PLO says Israel violates the provisions relating to “the protection of cultural property” under Article 4 of the Hague Convention of 14 May 1954, Article 27 of the Hague Regulations of 1907, the Article 5 of the Hague Convention IX of 1907 and Article 53 of Additional Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions.

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Niet! meets the Court of Appeal, without denying the occupation, said Israel was within its rightsbecause “… the authority of the legitimate power having in fact passed into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all measures in his power to restore, and ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety, while respecting, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country “(Article 43 of the 4th Convention The Hague 1907).

The occupation does not violate any international law

And the Court did not stop there … It explains why the occupation of the West Bank by Israel does not violate any international law.

The PLO, explaining that the occupation is illegal, says Israel is violating:

• Articles 49-6 and 53 of the Geneva Convention,
• Articles 23, 27 and 46 of the Regulations annexed to the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907,
• Article 4 of the Hague Convention of 14 May 1954
• Article 27 of the Hague Regulations of 1907,
• Article 5 of the Convention IX of the 1907 Hague
• and Article 53 of Additional Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions.

Not at all! meets the Court of Appeal of Versailles , which states that:

1. First, all of these texts are international acts signed between states and the obligations or prohibitions they contain are addressed to States. Neither the Palestinian Authority nor the PLO are States, none of these texts do not apply to them .
2. Second, the Court still remember, these texts are addressed to “the Contracting Parties”, ie both parties have signed – and again, neither the PLO nor the AP never signed these documents .

Propaganda does not replace the law

An irritated anything, the Court also added that the French law … “can not be based solely on the discretion [the PLO] a political or social situation.”

Humanitarian law is not violated either

The PLO, which then tries to hide the humanitarian standards, is once again sent into the ropes by the court, who said that while the Geneva Conventions and the Hague Convention are applicable in French law .

But “the International Court of Justice stated that they (the agreements) contain only obligations on states, and that the right of individuals to rely on was not mentioned” , only the parties contractors are bound by those conventions, and the Hague Convention of 1907 are not applicable because … Jerusalem is not bombed!

The PLO and the Palestinians can not rely on any international texts

Finally, the Court said, “the conventional international standards” do not give the “Palestinian people shows that the PLO represent the right to plead before a court. “

PLO condemned AFD

The Court of Appeal sentenced the AFPS (Association France Palestine Solidarity) and the PLO to pay 30,000 euros to Alstom, 30,000 euros from Alstom Transport, and 30 000 Veolia Transport.