BDS movement now illegal in france

[lego 44,165]

 

 

 

Do you actually know what BDS is saying? Their leader calls for destruction of Israel and their supporters got several times caught for saying "slaughter the jews:"

"jew lobby" Disgusting. Go away with your national socialist way of thought on Jews.

France has allowed hate speech towards other minorities.

Whatever some "leader" says should not make BDS ILLEGAL as it is only NON-VIOLENT way of protesting against violations of human rights of Israeli government. And this will make ordinary people to hate Jews because they will believe they influenced French government. 

 

[Goosey 3,017]

I'M DISGUSTED.

 

France though, so I ain't surprised.

[lego 44,165]

Also BDS is a huge movement in many countries and there is no "one leader" everyone obeys. lmao 

This goes against freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Giving flyers about attrocities in Gaza and calling for boycott of products from settlements is not the damn hate speech against the Jews.

While settlers are burning Palestinian olive trees, we are suppose to reward them and give them our money. No. 

 

[The Child 18,997]

Do you actually know what BDS is saying? Their leader calls for destruction of Israel and their supporters got several times caught for saying "slaughter the jews:" BDS movement also demonstrated against an AMERICAN Jew to perform at a European music festival.

I didn't know they did, sorry for not knowing everything.

[lego 44,165]

Anti-Israel Activism Criminalized in the Land of Charlie Hebdo and “Free Speech”

Glenn Greenwald
Oct. 27 2015, 4:34 p.m.

The post-Charlie Hebdo “free speech” march in Paris was a fraud for multiple reasons, as I wrote at the time. It was led by dozens of world leaders, many of whom imprison or even kill people for expressing prohibited views. It was cheered by many Westerners who feign upset only when free speech abridgments are perpetrated by Muslims, but not — as is far more common — by their own governments against Muslims.

Worst of all, the march took place in a country that is one of the most hostile to free speech rights in the West, as France quickly demonstrated in the days after the march by rounding up and prosecuting Muslims and other anti-Israel activists for the political views they expressed. A great, best-selling book by French philosopher Emmanuel Todd released this year argues that these “free speech” marches were a “sham,” driven by many political sentiments — nativism, nationalism, anti-Muslim bigotry — that had nothing to do with free speech.

The absurdity of France’s celebrating itself for free expression was vividly highlighted by this week’s decision from that nation’s highest court, one that is a direct assault on basic free speech rights. The French high courtupheld the criminal conviction of 12 political activists for the “crime” of advocating sanctions and a boycott against Israel as a means of ending the decades-long military occupation of Palestine. What did these French criminals do? This:

The individuals arrived at the supermarket wearing shirts emblazoned with the words: “Long live Palestine, boycott Israel.” They also handed out fliers that said that “buying Israeli products means legitimizing crimes in Gaza.”

 

[FILE - In this Monday, April 20, 2015 file photo, an Egyptian wears a T-shirt with a logo of BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions), a campaign started by Palestinian activists to boycott Israel and Israeli-made goods, during the launch of its campaign at the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate in Cairo, Egypt. The group calls for a global boycott campaign against Israel as a nonviolent method to promote the Palestinian struggle for independence. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)]

 

In France — self-proclaimed Land of Liberté — doing that makes you a criminal. As The Forward reported, the court “cited the French republic’s law on Freedom of the Press, which prescribes imprisonment or a fine of up to $50,000 for parties that ‘provoke discrimination, hatred or violence toward a person or group of people on grounds of their origin, their belonging or their not belonging to an ethnic group, a nation, a race or a certain religion.'” Because BDS is inherently “discriminatory,” said the court, it is a crime to advocate it.

The French court ruling is part of a worldwide trend. As more and more people around the world recognize the criminal and brutal nature of the Israeli government, its loyalists have been increasingly trying literally to criminalize activism against the Israeli occupation. For that reason, “pro-Israel” activists this weekcelebrated this French assault on basic free speech rights.

Pascal Markowicz, chief lawyer of the CRIF umbrella organization of French Jewish communities, published this celebratory decree (emphasis in original): “BDS is ILLEGAL in France.” Statements advocating a boycott or sanctions, he added, “are completely illegal. If [BDS activists] say their freedom of expression has been violated, now France’s highest legal instance ruled otherwise.”

Joel Rubinfeld, co-chair of the European Jewish Parliament and president of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, told Haaretzlast February that he wanted other countries to follow the French model of criminalizing anti-Israeli-occupation activism. After a French lower court convicted the BDS activists, Rubinfeld gushed: “The French government and judiciary’s determination in fighting discrimination, and the Lellouche law especially, are exemplary for Belgium and other nations where discriminatory BDS is happening.”

As Haaretz detailed in that February article, the “Lellouche law” held up by Rubinfeld is “named for the Jewish parliamentarian [in France] who introduced it in 2003,” and “the law is among the world’s most potent legislative tools to fight the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, and has catapulted France to the forefront of efforts to counter the movement through legal means.” Prior to this latest criminal case, there have been “approximately 20 anti-Israel activists who have been convicted under France’s so-called Lellouche law.”

The odious campaign to outlaw activism against the Israeli occupation extends well beyond France. In May, CBC reported that Canadian officialsthreatened to prosecute BDS activists there under “hate speech” laws, and after those officials denied doing so, we obtained and published the emailsproving they did just that. The February Haaretz article described this troubling event in the U.K.: “In 2007, the British University and College Union said it would drop plans to boycott Israeli institutions after legal advisers said doing so would violate anti-discrimination laws.” In 2013, New York City officials joined an (ultimately failed) Alan Dershowitz-led campaign to threaten the funding of Brooklyn College for the crime of hosting pro-BDS speakers.

Indeed, an outstanding Washington Postop-ed this week by a former IDF soldier, Assaf Gavron, documents how such attacks on Israel critics now extend to Israeli citizens themselves. Gavron describes how “the internal discussion in Israel is more militant, threatening and intolerant than it has ever been,” and “those few dissenters who attempt to contradict it — to ask questions, to protest, to represent a different color from this artificial consensus — are ridiculed and patronized at best, threatened, vilified and physically attacked at worst.”

Israel defenders love to equate “criticism of Israel” with “anti-Semitism” and then sanctimoniously deny that anyone does that. Butcriminalizing BDS advocacy — threatening people with large fines and prison terms for protesting the polices of the Israel government — is as clear of a case as it gets. As Haaretz put it, “The dragnet has also swept up BDS protesters whose actions have targeted Israel, not Jews.”

Ponder how pernicious this is. It is perfectly legal to advocate sanctions against Iran, or Russia, or Sudan, or virtually any other country. Indeed, sanctions and boycotts against those countries are not only frequently advocated in the West but are official policy. But it is illegal — criminal — to advocate boycotts and sanctions against one country: Israel. It requires sky-high levels of authoritarianism, even fascism, to abuse the criminal law to outlaw advocacy of policies and activism when it involves one country, and one country only. In response to thecelebrations over this ruling from one popular-on-Twitter Israeli extremist, Avi Mayer, I repeatedly asked this question but never received an answer:

@AviMayer You believe the law should allow a person to advocate boycott/sanctions for Iran & Russia, but make it illegal for Israel?

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 26, 2015

@AviMayer Why can't you answer what I asked? Should it be legal to advocate boycott/sanctions for Iran & Russia but not Israel?

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 26, 2015

@AviMayer 1) Should it be legal for me to advocate a boycott or sanctions on Israel? 2) Legal to do so for Iran and/or Russia? Answer that.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 26, 2015

It should go without saying that one’s opinions on the desirability or validity of BDS as a policy are totally irrelevant to this discussion. It’s self-evident that a belief in “free speech” compels one to defend with equal vigor the right to express views with which one agrees and those with which one vehemently disagrees. The issue here, obviously, is not whether BDS is a persuasive policy but whether people should be criminalized for advocating it. As extremist and oppressive as it is, the criminalization of BDS activism is increasing in multiple places around the world.

Where are all the newfound free speech activists who insisted after the Charlie Hebdo murders that a defense of free expression was so vital to all that is good and just in the Western world? Why isn’t the #JeSuisBDS hashtag trending in defense of these activists who have been persecuted — prosecuted — by France for their political views? The answer is clear: Many who reveled in wrapping themselves in the “free speech” banner earlier this year — beginning with France itself and extending throughout the West — have no genuine belief in that right. That’s why these countries not only stand silent in the face of such a fundamental assault on free speech, but aggressively perpetrate those abuses.

 

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/27/criminalization-of-anti-israel-activism-escalates-this-time-in-the-land-of-the-charlie-hebdo-free-speech-march/

 

 

[Melech 9,900]

 

France has allowed hate speech towards other minorities.

Whatever some "leader" says should not make BDS ILLEGAL as it is only NON-VIOLENT way of protesting against violations of human rights of Israeli government. And this will make ordinary people to hate Jews because they will believe they influenced French government. 

 

The BDS movement was in my city too and threatening a Jew here to stab him. Nobody takes away right to demonstrate against Israels "human right violations", but what some BDS lead too is horryifing anti-semitic. 

[lego 44,165]

The BDS movement was in my city too and threatening a Jew here to stab him. Nobody takes away right to demonstrate against Israels "human right violations", but what some BDS lead too is horryifing anti-semitic. 

 

Again these are individual cases. What is written in your article is that their crime was giving flyers in supermarkets with "Long live Palestine, Boycott Israel". Do you realize that makes Israel the only country you are not allowed to boycott or otherwise you'll end up in prison? What kind of democracy is that? 

Land of free speech? 

[Melech 9,900]

 

Again these are individual cases. What is written in your article is that their crime was giving flyers in supermarkets with "Long live Palestine, Boycott Israel". Do you realize that makes Israel the only country you are not allowed to boycott or otherwise you'll end up in prison? What kind of democracy is that? 

Land of free speech? 

"individual cases". Meanwhile there was a whole mob demonstrating in my city against Jews. 

BDS didn't want Matisyahu, an American Jewish singer, to not perform in a European musical festival. That is racism. 

 

"In a recent interview with the Jewish Media Agency (JMA), David Feldman, the director of the London-based Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism, denied that the boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) movement is anti-Semitic.

“I think the BDS movement is a broad church. It attracts support from some people who would like to see a one-state solution, but I think many people are attracted to BDS because they strongly oppose Israel’s conduct in the occupied territories,” he told JMA, before adding: “I haven’t seen the evidence to suggest that movement as a whole should be characterised as anti-Semitic.”

Now Feldman is either in denial or he has not experienced BDS at close quarters. Does he realise that in July and August 2014, shops, banks, universities, theatres and entire towns in Britain were targeted by a contingent of BDS activists comprising jihadi Islamists, anarchists, local gangsters and Socialist Worker Party members?

For example, in Manchester, which is home to Europe’s fastest-growing Jewish community, an Anglo-Israeli cosmetic shops was subject to a daily boycott that lasted for six weeks. I lost count of the times that I heard comments such as “Jews killed Jesus” and “You have blood on your hands.” A number of BDS activists were captured on camera expressing their admiration for Hitler or making Nazi salutes. Jews (including elderly men and women) were threatened and intimidated. Anti-Semitic leaflets were handed out to members of the public. 

Anyone who has witnessed BDS in action will be in no doubt that it is anti-Semitic. But there is a case to be made that BDS is not just anti-Semitic, it is racist. Why? Because it singles out a nationality – Israelis – for differential and discriminatory treatment in the international arena. Israelis are expected to conform to an impossibly high moral standard that would endanger their well-being. When Israelis inevitably fall short of these impossible standards, they are accused of indefensible behaviour. In contrast, the Palestinian Arabs are not held up to any standard at all. That too is racist. 

No other nation in the world is singled out for criticism the way Israel is. Israel is condemned for human rights abuses even when such allegations are proved to be untrue (e.g. Jenin). It is accused of ethnic cleansing when Jewish neighbourhoods are built in east Jerusalem. It is dubbed an apartheid state even though Israeli Arabs have full voting rights. It is accused of being an occupier even though Jews had lived in Judea and Samaria for hundreds of years before they were evicted by the Jordanians. Israel is accused of doing nothing to promote peace when in actual fact it is the Palestinian Arabs who have turned down the opportunity for statehood on numerous occasions.

At the same time, BDS campaigners treat the Palestinian Arabs like children (the child is the victim par excellence). According to the BDS narrative, the Palestinian Arabs don’t know any better and should not be punished or chastised for their mistakes because nothing is ever their fault. This shades in to a form of racist neo-primitivism, where Arabs are allowed to (literally) get away with murder. BDS campaigners have adopted the racist stance that when the Palestinian Arabs kill each other or kill Jews, it is a legitimate expression of a Third World “will to power” and are therefore absolved of responsibility. When Israelis take military action or assassinate a terrorist leader, it is dubbed fascist or racist.

Indeed, BDS does not view the Palestinian Arab as a full human being, with all the rights and responsibilities this entails, but is regarded as some kind of special case. Despotic and cruel regimes in the Muslim world are of no interest to BDS campaigners, but when it comes to the Palestinian Arabs, BDS activists are hyperactive. Why? Because it fits the racist narrative. If the Palestinian Arabs were being "oppressed" by the Egyptians or Jordanians, you wouldn’t hear a word from the BDS brigade. In fact, when Jordan and Egypt annexed the West Bank and Gaza respectively, nobody talked of “occupation.” That’s because the Jordanians and Egyptians are Arabs, not Jews.

As things stand, BDS activists do not expect the Palestinian Arabs to do anything to resolve the crisis. Everything depends on Israel, which means Israel is always to blame. But what more can the Israelis do? The Palestinians have had several chances to build a state on the West Bank and Gaza and on each occasion they either turned it down or just simply walked away. As recently as 2008, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinian Arabs almost all of Judea and Samaria, and east Jerusalem (in addition to Gaza). Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, received the plans but never got back to Olmert. Yet it is Israel that is being subjected to boycotts and international criticism.

When the Israelis withdrew from Gaza in 2005, did the Palestinian Arabs make an effort to build a state? No, they destroyed the infrastructure left behind by the Israelis. When the Gazans send rockets into southern Israel, do BDS campaigners criticise Hamas? No, they blame Israel for the blockade, which is only in effect because of the rocket attacks. Do they hold the Egyptians accountable for their blockade of Gaza? No, because it doesn't fit the anti-Israel narrative.

So as well as being anti-Semitic, BDS is racist because it expects far too much of Israelis and far too little of Palestinian Arabs. That’s why BDS is racist."

http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/The-View-From-the-UK/BDS-is-not-just-anti-Semitic-it-is-racist-396244

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The campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) is shaped by a rights-based approach and highlights the three broad sections of the Palestinian people: the refugees, those under military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Palestinians in Israel. The call urges various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets its obligations under international law by:

Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall;
Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.

The BDS call was endorsed by over 170 Palestinian political parties, organizations, trade unions and movements. The signatories represent the refugees, Palestinians in the OPT, and Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Boycotts target products and companies (Israeli and international) that profit from the violation of Palestinian rights, as well as Israeli sporting, cultural and academic institutions. Anyone can boycott Israeli goods, simply by making sure that they don’t buy produce made in Israel or by Israeli companies. Campaigners and groups call on consumers not to buy Israeli goods and on businesses not to buy or sell them.

Israeli cultural and academic institutions directly contribute to maintaining, defending or whitewashing the oppression of Palestinians, as Israel deliberately tries to boost its image internationally through academic and cultural collaborations. As part of the boycott, academics, artists and consumers are campaigning against such collaboration and ‘rebranding’. A growing number of artists have refused to exhibit or play in Israel.

Divestment means targeting corporations complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights and ensuring that the likes of university investment portfolios and pension funds are not used to finance such companies. These efforts raise awareness about the reality of Israel’s policies and encourage companies to use their economic influence to pressure Israel to end its systematic denial of Palestinian rights.

Sanctions are an essential part of demonstrating disapproval for a country’s actions. Israel’s membership of various diplomatic and economic forums provides both an unmerited veneer of respectability and material support for its crimes. By calling for sanctions against Israel, campaigners educate society about violations of international law and seek to end the complicity of other nations in these violations.

- See more at: http://www.bdsmovement.net/bdsintro#sthash.J0OYSi7F.dpuf

 

Stop spreading Zionist propaganda. BDS is not racist. Their goals are very clear.

And Israel is singled out because it gets all the ****ing support from the West with money and weapons! And there are never any sanctions no matter how many international laws it breaks!

 

[Melech 9,900]

 

 

Stop spreading Zionist propaganda. BDS is not racist. Their goals are very clear.

And Israel is singled out because it gets all the ****ing support from the West with money and weapons! And there are never any sanctions no matter how many international laws it breaks!

 

Spreading Zionist propaganda or personal expierence with them? Maybe you should stop spreading Anti-Zionist propaganda then. :p 

 

[Goosey 3,017]

BDS didn't want Matisyahu, an American Jewish singer, to not perform in a European musical festival. That is racism.

They claimed it was because of his position on Israel. Either way it's still free speech. We allow groups like Westboro Baptist Church or the Klu Klux Klan... 1st Amendment. So why is BDS illegal?

[lego 44,165]

Spreading Zionist propaganda or personal expierence with them? Maybe you should stop spreading Anti-Zionist propaganda then. :p 

 

Your whole article from jpost is full of BS.

 

" Because it singles out a nationality – Israelis – for differential and discriminatory treatment in the international arena. Israelis are expected to conform to an impossibly high moral standard that would endanger their well-being. When Israelis inevitably fall short of these impossible standards, they are accused of indefensible behaviour. In contrast, the Palestinian Arabs are not held up to any standard at all. That too is racist. 

No other nation in the world is singled out for criticism the way Israel is. Israel is condemned for human rights abuses even when such allegations are proved to be untrue (e.g. Jenin). It is accused of ethnic cleansing when Jewish neighbourhoods are built in east Jerusalem. It is dubbed an apartheid state even though Israeli Arabs have full voting rights. It is accused of being an occupier even though Jews had lived in Judea and Samaria for hundreds of years before they were evicted by the Jordanians. Israel is accused of doing nothing to promote peace when in actual fact it is the Palestinian Arabs who have turned down the opportunity for statehood on numerous occasions."

 

If you honestly agree with all this.  

 

 

[Melech 9,900]

They claimed it was because of his position on Israel. Either way it's still free speech. We allow groups like Westboro Baptist Church or the Klu Klux Klan... 1st Amendment. So why is BDS illegal?

France, not USA. 

Your whole article from jpost is full of BS.

 

" Because it singles out a nationality – Israelis – for differential and discriminatory treatment in the international arena. Israelis are expected to conform to an impossibly high moral standard that would endanger their well-being. When Israelis inevitably fall short of these impossible standards, they are accused of indefensible behaviour. In contrast, the Palestinian Arabs are not held up to any standard at all. That too is racist. 

No other nation in the world is singled out for criticism the way Israel is. Israel is condemned for human rights abuses even when such allegations are proved to be untrue (e.g. Jenin). It is accused of ethnic cleansing when Jewish neighbourhoods are built in east Jerusalem. It is dubbed an apartheid state even though Israeli Arabs have full voting rights. It is accused of being an occupier even though Jews had lived in Judea and Samaria for hundreds of years before they were evicted by the Jordanians. Israel is accused of doing nothing to promote peace when in actual fact it is the Palestinian Arabs who have turned down the opportunity for statehood on numerous occasions."

 

If you honestly agree with all this.  

 

 

Never said I agree with this, but it seem that you agree with BDS whose who scream slaughter the Jews and Israel not having right to exists. 

[Goosey 3,017]

France, not USA.

And? So what? No matter the location, this is still a restriction of freedom of speech. 

[Melech 9,900]

And? So what? No matter the location, this is still a restriction of freedom of speech. 

Hate speech =/= free speech