FOIA Lawsuit Departments of State, Defense and Homeland Security to Obtain Boycott of Jewish Businesses (BDS) Lobbying Record

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Brilliant. The jihad, terror-tied Nazi groups will be exposed as will the kapo Jews (judenrat) who betray their people.

It’s this century’s Nazi movement, only on a worldwide scale. Same tactics, same viciousness, same lies, same thuggery.

Make no mistake, the Third Reich employed the same tactics. Preceding Kristallnacht, the Nazis called for Germans to boycott Jewish-owned businesses. This was the direct antecedent to the BDS (Jewish boycott) movement. This is no different.

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In the wake of the Muslim [Arab] boycott of Israel, in 1977 the United States Congress passed a law which made it a criminal offense to adhere to the boycott of Israel and imposed fines on American companies that were found to be complying with it. For the surveillance after the implementation of this law, an office called the “Office of Antiboycott Compliance” was opened in the US Department of Commerce.

Time to start enforcing that law.

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Judicial Watch Sues Departments of State, Defense and Homeland Security to Obtain Anti-Israel ‘Boycott, Divestiture, and Sanctions’ (BDS) Lobbying Records –

Judicial Watch, August 7, 2018:

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of State, and the U.S. Department of Defense for all records of communications regarding anti-Israel group Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions’ (BDS) efforts to lobby the Obama administration to adopt policies to harm companies doing business with Israel (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:18-cv-01721)).

The suit was filed after all three agencies failed to respond to nearly identical April 23, 2018, FOIA requests seeking:

All emails to or from current or former officials in the [DOD, DHS, or State] Office of the Secretary containing the phrase “boycott divestment and sanctions.”

All emails to or from current or former officials in the [DOD, DHS, or State] Office of the Secretary containing both the terms “BDS” and “Israel.”

The timeframe of these requests is January 1, 2015, through December 31, 2015.

In February 2016 President Obama signed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 into law, which compels U.S. trade partners to cut ties to the BDS movement and protects Israel territories illegal discrimination. But Obama announced:

Certain provisions of this Act, by conflating Israel and “Israeli-controlled territories,” are contrary to longstanding bipartisan United States policy, including with regard to the treatment of settlements.  Moreover, consistent with longstanding constitutional practice, my Administration will interpret and implement the provisions in the Act that purport to direct the Executive to seek to negotiate and enter into particular international agreements (section 414(a)(1)) or to take certain positions in international negotiations with respect to international agreements with foreign countries not qualifying for trade authorities procedures (sections 108(b), 414(a)(2), 415, and 909(c)) in a manner that does not interfere with my constitutional authority to conduct diplomacy.

 

Shortly after Obama signed the act, the Customs and Border Protection Bureau restated the West Bank Country of Origin Marking Requirement rules requiring labeling of goods as being from the “West Bank,” despite the fact that it is not a sovereign country. The Jerusalem Post later reported the restated rules were a result of several complaints filed by activists seeking the U.S. follow policy guidelines distinguishing goods produced from Israel and the West Bank.

Proponents of the West Bank country-of-origin marking requirements claim it stems from “longstanding bipartisan U.S. policy” toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. First put in place in 1995 under the Clinton administration, the rule is to preserve the distinction between the goods produced in State of Israel and the good produced in the territories it controls over the Green Line.

The BDS movement is endorsed by the PLO and other anti-Israel groups encouraging an economic and cultural boycott of Israel.  It has gained the support of radical leftwing groups here in the United States.

“Americans deserve to know if the Obama-era agenda of supporting anti-Israel radicals in subverting U.S. law is ongoing,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These entrenched bureaucrats of the Deep State clearly require lawsuits to compel observance of FOIA law.”

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Dennis
Dennis
5 years ago

This article further compounds my inability to fully understand what and why their is this so-called BDS movement. While I appreciate the knowledge that the Arab (Muslim) world continues to fallaciously urge that Israel is an occupier of their land and that they seek the destruction of the nation and its people, which I thought was their unmeritorious basis for supporting BDS, I am still unable to fathom why any right thinking people would support such an inane movement. Products made in the West Bank by companies that are Israel owned or related to in one way or another, likely also benefit the Arab people as workers or suppliers of material to make whatever products are involved. Therefore, the Arabs benefit as well, and one must wonder why BDS has a foothold on world politics. With the underlying claim that Israel is an occupier being without substance, merit or legitimate legal basis, I find that whole concept madness.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

Ignorance!
All they hear is the LEFT speaking.
Kids are TAUGHT the LEFT view point.
Opposition is silenced with verbal and now physical intimidation.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

A conspiracy whose lineage can be traced back to Nazism. Without the like of Pamela Geller, the rebirth of Nazism’s, antisemitic fundamentalism would remain secreted. Antisemitism has returned, not that it ever disappeared, it merely lay dormant while it was unfashionable to be anti-Semitic. BDS’s mandate is no different than those of the Third Reich; its end-game will evolve as not solely a Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement but the eradication, firstly of Israel, and secondly, world Jewry.
It is an extreme statement, criticism on my part and others; however, every day there is evidence of BDS or those of its intolerances regarding the sovereign State of Israel and the non-sovereign plot of land, Gaza. The latter is a viper’s nest in which terrorism and anti-Semitism/Israel are one of the same. A cesspool of humanity, I use the term loosely, aided and abetted by the BDS, the EU, the UN and other major Western powers.

It, BDS, is part and parcel of the Progressivists’ Globalization machination, whose overlords are George Soros, indeed, Barack Obama, the Democrats and a myriad of antisemitic/Israel powerbrokers. One should not be double-shuffled into believing that the ultimate aim is solely destroying Israel’s economy; this cobbling of Western Democracies and others mentioned is the ultimate downfall of Israel and Judaism. If this endeavor, Israel’s demise, and Judaism, were to succeed, we non-Muslims would be next. Fascism, as we once perceived it, has taken upon itself a liberal progressive persona including that of Fascism’s, Nazism’s anti-Semitic/Israel doctrines and universal governance/Globalization. Hitler and his henchmen lost the World War Two, the Globalists, however, have taken on the mantle of Nazism which will undoubtedly provoke another global catastrophe. BDS is merely a cog within a massive and evil contrivance.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

when you allow more jihadis and their lobbyists to buy out politicians, media both will support jijadis.

And Left/Liberal pro-jihadi run UN Supports BDS and Jihadi Invasion and Islamic Takeover of Non-Muslim Lands after rejecting Trump’s Nominee https://tinyurl.com/yc88lljq

So why are we funding these scumbags ?

Cassandra
Cassandra
5 years ago

God bless Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch, they are truly a beacon of light in this darkening world. And where are the Jewish organisations doing FOIA to find this out??

Hugo Cabret
Hugo Cabret
5 years ago

Judicial Watch is a godsend, and so is the great American, Pamela Geller!!!

harbidoll
harbidoll
5 years ago

Pray your name is Not writting in these books when they are opened. lol

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