Boris Johnson’s New Government Will Pass Anti-BDS Law as Matter of Urgency
Eric Pickles, UK Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues, has indicated Boris Johnson’s government will pass a law making it illegal for public bodies to engage with the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Dialogue’s conference in Jerusalem on 15 December, Pickles said BDS was “anti-Semitic” and “should be treated as such”.
The law will not allow public bodies to work with individuals or groups advocating boycott, divestment or sanctions in respect of Israel in any way.
The pledge was alluded to in the Conservative party’s manifesto, with a commitment to “ban public bodies from imposing their own direct or indirect boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions campaigns against foreign countries” as they “undermine community cohesion”.
The anti-BDS law will form part of the Queen’s speech, which outlines the government’s agenda for the next year, and will be read at the opening of parliament on 19 December.
The move will mean local councils controlled by Labour are precluded from using taxpayer funds to boycott foreign countries, including Israel.
Pickles, who’s also chair of the Conservative Friends of Israel group, said Labour’s historic defeat in the 12th December general election UK showed the British people had overwhelmingly rejected anti-Semitism.
“Anti-Semitism is an attack on the British way of life and identity. Without our Jewish citizens we’d be a lesser nation,” he added.
While an increasingly popular global movement, adherent of which claim is targeted as Israeli government policies, not Israelis, renowned Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt has alleged BDS is “at its heart…intent on the destruction of the State of Israel”.
“If you look at the founding documents of the groups that first proposed BDS, they called for a full right of return…the ultimate objective of BDS is not BDS itself. If that were the case, we would all have to give up our iPhones, because so much of that technology is created in Israel. I think the objective of BDS, and especially the people who are the main organisers and supporters, is to make anything that comes out of Israel toxic, and I think they have had some success…I do not think any kid who supports BDS is ipso facto an anti-Semite. I think that’s wrong. It’s a mistake. And it’s not helpful,” she said.
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The lies about the 1967 war are still more powerful than the truth
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In retrospect it can be seen that the 1967 war, the Six Days War, was the turning point in the relationship between the Zionist state of Israel and the Jews of the world (the majority of Jews who prefer to live not in Israel but as citizens of many other nations). Until the 1967 war, and with the exception of a minority of who were politically active, most non-Israeli Jews did not have – how can I put it? – a great empathy with Zionism’s child. Israel was there and, in the sub-consciousness, a refuge of last resort; but the Jewish nationalism it represented had not generated the overtly enthusiastic support of the Jews of the world. The Jews of Israel were in their chosen place and the Jews of the world were in their chosen places. There was not, so to speak, a great feeling of togetherness. At a point David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and first prime minister, was so disillusioned by the indifference of world Jewry that he went public with his criticism – not enough Jews were coming to live in Israel.
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The use of money as a weapon. The results are varied. One will be to conceal criminality, thus allowing it to continue, to increase. Without publicizing it, it won’t exist.
Only the victims will exist. Unless they, too, are concealed. Or worse.
Those who know, will they also be victim?
If those who know think it wrong and object, will they be criminal?
The answers are apparent. The reasons obvious. Unless the perpetrators can force upon them and the witnesses, force upon them to conform and be silently obedient. To be fearful. To have the wages of the use of money as a weapon. The uses of fear as a weapon.
That is the outcome of these ever-increasing laws perpetrated upon a wider and wider public.
Is this what you want, people of Britain? Of America? France? Germany? Canada? And on and on.
What a successful war, then. A successful enslavement. Slavery. A war was won by the enslavers in Russia in 1917. A war was won by the enslavers after WW1. And who won World War Two? Who has won the war of controlling the people’s opinion thereafter, through their narrative of history, their portrayal in so-called entertainment, in what is reported in so-called news, in your women and children as used for pornography, in laws designed to further debt. And on and on.
Slavery. Maybe not whips and chains, but servility, cowardice, immiseration, poverty to the victors’ use of money and fear.
Cower and serve, slaves.
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dear wall,
help me to be a better servant.
help me to know my master’s wishes before my master speaks.
help my hands, knees, elbows, tongue to be pleasing.
i know blessings will come to this loyal servant.
boris
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I wonder if Baron Rothschild has had any influence in this decision? I doubt that The Queen would want to upset him…..
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Do you mean Baron Rothschild, or Baron Sasha Cohen? To do so would be deemed…you know, as anti… anti… anti something or other.
Can’t have that, now, can we? One rules with money; the weapon of choice. The other with ridicule. It’s okay to rule with money, since that can be wield almost without notice. The other, wield to elevate the tribe and dispatch the Gentile.
Especially when the likes of Bojo will do as directed. Will he also sign into a bi-lateral agreement of mutual defense with Israel, as Trumpy has done? So that anything, false flag or otherwise, whereby if anything British is attacked in the middle east, or if Israel calls upon Britain to come to its aid, both America and Britain will enter the fray in another coalition of the willy-nilly to make war on whomever or whatever Israel direct of them?
The accompanying photograph portrays so much, accurately: yes, as commented above: “…a loyal servant.”
Your peril, England. You’ve elected him and his servitude.
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