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Related: About this forumMossad-linked group holds anti-BDS legal seminar
Shurat HaDin, an organisation with links to Israel's government and security services, is holding a seminar this week in Jerusalem "to train lawyers from abroad to litigate BDS." The gathering follows a period of intensified attacks by Israeli officials on the Palestinian-led boycott movement, including reports of imminent Justice Ministry-initiated lawsuits.
The group is often presented as a "civil rights organisation" working "to stop the flow of terror money" - as Newsweek put it, "attacking the terrorists in their pocketbooks". In fact, as revealed by Wikileaks, Darshan-Leitner "privately admitted to taking direction from the Israeli government over which cases to pursue and relying on Israeli intelligence contacts for witnesses and evidence."
In other words, as an Israeli journalist wrote in 2013, Shurat HaDin "files lawsuits at the behest of the Israeli government", yet still "dares to define itself as a 'human rights organisation'."
One of Shurat HaDin's most infamous attempts to undermine the BDS campaign was their 'anti-discrimination' case brought against the pro-boycott Australian academic Jake Lynch, which ended in failure in July 2014.
Even before the courts dismissed the case, Israel advocates had warned that litigation was "inappropriate and likely to be counter-productive." Shurat HaDin's track record also includes an unsuccessful lawsuit against Jimmy Carter, and threats to global charity Oxfam.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/blogs/politics/19562-mossad-linked-group-holds-anti-bds-legal-seminar
Mosby
(16,385 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)The guy who posted "a massive picture of Howard Jacobson's face" as a reason to support the boycott.
shira
(30,109 posts)'Nuff said.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)shira
(30,109 posts)It's just a genocidal charter calling for the killing of Jews worldwide.
No need to amend it.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)not be hard pressured from outside
In addition to this, no amendment to the charter would sufficiently please the international community beyond altering the core of the Hamas's political thought. No changes to the charter would satisfy Western forces unless they explicitly recognise the two-state solution and clearly accept the legitimacy of the continued existence of the Israeli state on Palestinian territories, while shunning the Palestinian national struggle in all its forms. From a strategic regional and international perspective, unless making concessions to these specific points there is no point in changing the charter, as such change may ultimately crack the intellectual infrastructure of Hamas and cause severe repercussions affecting its survival.
Palestinians still remember Fatah's ill-fated political acquiescence, particularly the amendment of the organisation's charter under the supervision of Yasser Arafat in 1996 to appease Bill Clinton. Although Fatah changed the PLO Charter under US pressure, it did not reap the fruits of this change and it ultimately did not serve the Palestinian cause. Instead, it caused disappointment and decline; a fate which may well befall Hamas if it makes the same mistake.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/blogs/politics/15829-why-hamas-should-not-heed-calls-to-amend-charter
shira
(30,109 posts)Not one word condemning that call to kill the Jews.
How convenient.
I would expect a progressive opinion about the Hamas Charter to include a little outrage at that.
Nothing.
MEMO supports Hamas. Their support for the Charter is indefensible.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)and in Christian end times prophecy everyone not a Christian dies and burns in hell, that includes Jews too, yet we see little outrage about that, why??
Mosby
(16,385 posts)Why do Muslims and Christians have end-times prophesies where everyone not in agreement with them die or burn in Hell?
Nothing like that in Judaism.
shira
(30,109 posts)From a CounterPunch article White wrote...
He later tweeted this...
"Understanding is the beginning of justification that ends with acceptance, and is the root of all evil" http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/they-are-not-masters-of-the-land-1.405175
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)it's from a 2002 edition of counterpunch
shira
(30,109 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)but then again I am not purposely choosing sources that could well lead to a hidden post if actually linked to
shira
(30,109 posts)And unless I prove that's what Ben White wrote - and he did write it at CounterPunch - you're going to deny he wrote it?
Honestly, I don't know what the heck you mean.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)when it is really about how misguided the notion is
shira
(30,109 posts)How about the recent flotilla from this week with Ann Wright on it? She defended Greta Berlin.
You support that too?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)post a link for us and prove it
shira
(30,109 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)the tweet came from it was pulled from somewhere apparently
shira
(30,109 posts)He then tweeted...
So his understanding of Jew haters ends with accepting them, and that's the root of all evil.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)and the subsequent acceptance of that so if the unlinked tweet is related the danger is religious Zionism
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)to do lawfare.
It seems as if the rest of the world has safeguards against what Shurat HaDin does, and it's a bit disconcerting that a country with an exploitable legal system has jurisdiction outside its borders.