[ April 26, 2024 ]
The Boycott, Divest, Sanction [Israel] movement is this century’s Nazi movement, only on a worldwide scale. Same tactics, same viciousness, same lies, same thuggery — the Germans employed the same tactics. Preceding Kristallnacht, the Nazis held several days calling for Germans to boycott Jewish-owned businesses. This was the direct antecedent to the BDS movement. This is no different.
This century’s Nazi officials are in the Irish parliament.
“Ireland to pass BDS law against Jewish businesses in ‘occupied territories,’” by Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News, July 4, 2018 (thanks to Mark):
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An Irish law against importing goods and services from “occupied territories” was carefully worded so that it would apply only to the Jewish state, its sponsor said.
The second-largest party in Ireland’s parliament announced Wednesday that it will support a pro-BDS bill coming to a vote later this month, thus guaranteeing its passage.
Fianna Fáil will join the largest opposition party, Sinn Féin, and others in passing what is officially called the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Act of 2018. Although it does not mention Israel, or even “Palestine,” by name, its sponsor, Senator Frances Black (Independent), has openly noted that its wording was carefully formulated so that it would only apply to the Jewish state.
This means that the law, which would affect Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, does not cover areas such as Turkey’s longtime occupation of northern Cyprus or Russia’s more recent occupation of the Crimea.
As reported in JNS, a spokesman for the Irish pro-Israel group Irish4Israel said that the bill “was endorsed by trade unions and others and had the support of many smaller parties. The motivation is a naive hope to show solidarity with the Palestinians” due to “an Irish obsession to identify with the perceived underdog.”
Fianna Fáil’s Niall Collins said that “passing the Occupied Territories Bill has the potential to send a strong message that the issue of illegal settlements is being taken seriously and needs to be addressed.”
‘Closing doors will not facilitate Ireland’s influence’Israel’s embassy in Ireland blasted the bill in a statement as an “immoral” one that “will not do any good.” Legislation that promotes any kind of boycott, it continued, “should be rejected as it does nothing to achieve peace but rather empowers the Hamas terrorists as well as those Palestinians who refuse to come to the negotiating table.”
In addition, the embassy noted, “Closing doors will not in any way facilitate Ireland’s role and influence.”
An interesting point about the proposed legislation is that it runs counter to the law of the European Union (of which Ireland is a member), which states that all EU countries must have a common trade policy. In explaining why parliament should go ahead with it anyway, Black told Ireland’s TheJournal.ie, “I feel if we wait for the EU to take the lead, we could be waiting forever.”…
“Israel Slams ‘Immoral’ Bill Passed by Ireland’s Senate Outlawing Trade With West Bank Jewish Communities,” Algemeiner, July 11, 2018:
Irish legislation outlawing trade with Israeli settlements could put the Irish operations of US companies like Apple (pictured) at risk from US anti-boycott rules. Photo: Reuters / Michael MacSweeney.
Legislators in Ireland’s Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that will prohibit “the import or sale of goods and services” from Jewish communities in the West Bank, deemed to have been under Israeli “occupation” since the June 1967 Six-Day War.
Passed by a vote of 25-20, the bill drew support from all Ireland’s major political parties, except the governing Fine Gael party.
Before the vote, PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi called on “the Irish people in light of our historical relationship to stand up and to reject the importation of any settlement products — because settlements are, after all, a war crime and an ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people and they want you to be complicit in this war crime.”
The Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned Ireland’s ambassador in Tel Aviv, Simon Coveney, to condemn the Senate’s “absurd” initiative. The ministry said the bill “will harm the livelihoods of many Palestinians who work in the Israeli industrial zones affected by the boycott.”
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The bill, which passed its second reading on Tuesday, still has eight more procedural hurdles to jump, including a vote in the Irish Parliament’s House of Representatives, before it can be signed into law by the Irish president.
Commenting on the legislation, Prof. Orde F. Kittrie — who teaches law at Arizona State University and is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank — asserted that if “companies abide by the Irish law, they could violate U.S. law, which prohibits U.S. companies from participating in foreign boycotts that the U.S. government does not endorse.”
“The bill, if enacted, would put at risk Ireland’s economic links to the United States, which are vital to Irish prosperity,” Kittrie noted in an article for Fortune magazine….
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16 Comments
5 years ago
May Allah Bless Ireland with more jihadi attacks and more freebie seeking jihadis to destroy it economically and socially. PBUH !
Left/Liberal are also making ISIS / jihadis happy by making beheading fashionable https://tinyurl.com/y7k93bs9
Insane ?
5 years ago
Mazel Tov! Now Intel, Apple, and Google will have to leave Ireland, and stop offering products and services. This is great news, Ireland can now be free of all jewish influence in Medicine, Technology, Agriculture, and Engineering.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
Yes! Interesting that one of many great Israeli inventions, the pill cam, was purchased by an Irish company.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-developer-of-swallowable-camera-bought-for-860-million/
5 years ago
The Irish for some reason are among the most anti-Israel countries in Europe, despite the two peoples have very limited historical contact.
5 years ago
I won’t be buying anything manufactured in Ireland again… Gaels seem to have caught a bad case of the Fwench Surrender Monkey complex.
5 years ago
Israel’s settling civilians in occupied territory is a war crime under the statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Article 8(2) of the Rome Statute. They are also in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Clearly it follows that produce from illegally occupied territories should be banned.
5 years ago
That Ireland has gone over to the dark side in this way should not have been surprising, though it definitely is despicable. Recently the voters approved the furtherance of the culture of abortion on demand into that country, effectively giving the middle finger to the culture/sanctity/value/cause of life (it should be noted that before the vote, Facebook and Twitter banned all online advertising relating to that vote, which clearly played right into the hands of the culture of death). Before that, they voted to redefine the institution of marriage away from the traditional definition of a union of a man and woman, to that of two men or two women, which is part of the One World globalists’ plan to destroy the family and smash the Judeo-Christian foundations of society. These two abominations in particular seem to go hand in hand with their caving to antisemites on this issue.
5 years ago
If me memory serves me correctly, for centuries, the Roman Church was not exactly the best friend of the Jew…..If the Catholic remnant in Ireland joins forces with Islam against Israel……this should be no surprise….
No more Guinness for me until this ban is banned…….
5 years ago
Sorry to read this. The world is upside down. I feel like Alice. What is down is up, etc. This is so sad.
5 years ago
J Butterfield-There is no occupied territory
Resolution 242 was adopted after the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel was attacked by, and captured territory from, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
However, the resolution never mentions Jerusalem because it is part of Israel, nor does U.N. Resolution 242 call for a full withdrawal from territory captured but merely a withdrawal to “secure and recognized boundaries” that are to be negotiated by the parties concerned.
Palestinian Arabs were not a party to the resolution. There is no occupied territory it is simply propaganda as usual.
5 years ago
This is great news in fighting the “occupation” and “genocide” of the poor, innocent, suffering “Palestinians”. Now Ireland must take the next step and commence an emergency humanitarian rescue operation and bring the “Palestinians” facing “genocide” to safety in Ireland and resettle them there.
5 years ago
Reply to
Badger
Ulster is Northern Ireland, though. Maybe a wall around Protestant Ulster? My understanding is that the Protestants there are more inclined to stand with Israel whereas the IRA Catholics love the Palestinians and Muslims. Gaddafi was a generous IRA supporter and supplied them with weapons and explosives.
5 years ago
Ireland has an unhappy history of Jew hatred and Nazi sympathy. Now they have an Indian sexual pervert as prime minister.
5 years ago
I was at the Parliament House protesting with a fairly good enthusiastic group of very well-behaved pro-Israeli supporters. I couldn’t help but notice the surly look on the 3 police officers supposed to maintain order at the entrance gates where the pro-Israeli group were gathered. 90 mins later at close a small group were asked to pose for the TV NEWS. At this a smaller non-permit group of Palestinians pushed forward in front of our the Israeli group made up mostly of elderly ladies.I rushed forward to protect them and keep the Palestinians from the camera. I then tried to talk to the cops telling them that the Palestinians have no permit and are causing trouble for us. He asked me if we had a permit ,-I said ‘yes’!.At this he told me to go back to go away and turned and walked off. An officer of the Irish State no less makes anti-semetism de facto official.
