Sheldon Adelson Looks To Stamp Out Growing US Movement To Boycott Israel

[Purveyor]

Source: Guardian UK

Chris McGreal in Portland, Oregon
Friday 5 June 2015 12.34 EDT

The American gambling magnate and major Republican party donor, Sheldon Adelson, is hosting a closed-door meeting of pro-Israel billionaires and activists at his Las Vegas casino this weekend, to combat the burgeoning movement on US university campuses to boycott the Jewish state.

The gathering comes amid growing Israeli alarm at the rise of the decade-old Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in the US and Europe which the government in Jerusalem contends is antisemitic. It says the movement is intent on the destruction of the Jewish homeland because, among other things, some of its leaders support the “one-state solution” of combining Israel and the Palestinian territories into a single country with equality for Jewish and Arab citizens.

However, BDS supporters say Adelson’s involvement highlights their cause because he is a vocal supporter of a single state – albeit one in which Israel annexes the occupied territories and denies equal rights to Palestinians who he has derided as “an invented people”.

After years of dismissing the BDS movement as marginal and irrelevant, pro-Israel lobby groups have recently promoted laws against it in the US Congress and state legislatures. They include legislation to block the EU from imposing measures against illegal Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/05/sheldon-adelson-looks-to-stamp-out-growing-us-movement-to-boycott-israel

[closeupready]

1. Stamping out this movement would be very easy: 1967 borders,

Right of Return, Israel's signature to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, among other things.

Bingo. Bango. Bongo. Done.

[jwirr]

2. What adelson should know is that he is part of the reason people are moving away from supporting

Israel. RW.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. You are right on.

Adelson and his stooge's are doing their best using intimidation and threats against any media that dares print something truthful about him.

[billhicks76]

17. Exactly

Get to the root of the problem instead of trying to patch up the bad parts.

[sendero]

3. God forbid...

... that people should have the freedom to look at how a state acts and decide whether or not they wish to support that state. Heavens, what will they want next?

Adelson and his rich goat-boys are going to find out that you cannot buy everything.

[Rossi]

5. How is this going to be undone?

Please explain.

[cosmicone]

8. By dismantling the illegal settlements of course - duh n/t

[Beauregard]

9. Dismantle?

These are not going to be dismantled. Embargo or no embargo. To borrow your idiotic expression, "Duh!"

[peacebird]

11. Ok, they were illegal, so leave them up for the Palestinians to move into. Consider it

A parting gift, atonement.

[Rossi]

20. Over a lot of dead bodies.

You know that.

[cosmicone]

12. Vacate them would be a better word

In either case, their status as Jewish settlements is dismantled. Duh

[Rossi]

21. No. Eretz Ysrael is the word.

That's the land of David, from the Med to the Jordan. And the one constant under all regimes in Israel, Labor or Likud or coalition is the continued expansion of Israeli "settlements" in the West Bank. That's what the map above shows. Those settlements will not be abandoned without a big war. Surely you know that. So is that what you are advocating?

[cosmicone]

24. So -- you are confirming that Israel is a land grabber and violating human rights

It is insane to hang any claim on biblical writings by the way.

[Rossi]

29. So you want a big war? Just answer the question.

Because that's what it would take to make Israel pull out of the settlements.

[A Simple Game]

14. If Israel had to choose between dismantle or turn over to the Palestinians would you still

have a question mark after the Dismantle in your post?

There is no doubt in my mind that Israel would destroy those buildings.

[Rossi]

23. False dilemma.

Israel will fight to the last man or woman to keep those settlements. The point has always been to recover the ancient Land of David.

[cosmicone]

25. By that logic, all land in the US belongs to native Americans. n/t

[former9thward]

27. Which Native Americans agree.

Do you agree with them or disagree?

[cosmicone]

28. I don't agree

The point is that using ancient references to who owns the land is inherently stupid and goes against ground reality.

[Rossi]

30. You continue to dodge the issue.

The point is not the validity or invalidity of Israeli land claims, but the consequences of trying to force them to abandon/destroy the West Bank settlements.

[FlatBaroque]

6. he is a PIG

Just a reminder, the TTIP agreement contains a provision that signatory nations cannot engage in BDS activities against Israel

[PatrickforO]

10. An 'invented' people?

I think he's a bit 'off' on his history...perhaps he invented that part...

[libdem4life]

13. Yes, well they are still awaiting The Messiah. The one 2,000 years ago didn't count. And he was a

Jew...so they say. But he was also a Palestinian. That's where it all starts to get bizarre. Other than this comment, i wouldn't touch this with a 10-foot pole. It's doomed to fail between Judaism/Zionism, Converted Jews, Gentile Protestantism and how they interpret certain parts of the New Testament.

[kentauros]

15. "to combat the burgeoning movement on US university campuses"

I can think of only one way he could possibly succeed: to cancel out all student debt.

Of course, you don't become a RW billionaire by giving away money...

[olddots]

16. this man is pure evil greed .

N.T.

[stuffmatters]

18. The TPP will prohibit national movements to boycott,divest, sanction (BDS)

This was pointed out by one of the senators during the Hatch Committee hearing. Maybe Burr, maybe Cardin. He said that the ISDS
clause would prevent national movements like those that brought an end to apartheid in South Africa. The objection not only fell upon
willfully deaf ears in the Committee, the same senator then voted with the overwhelming majority to pass fast track/Tpp onto the Senate floor.

[betterdemsonly]

19. For years the complained that Palestinians weren't following the examples of MLK and Gandhi

then when they do they try to make the tactics of MLK and Gandhi illegal.

[bobthedrummer]

22. From the Las Vegas strip to the Gaza strip-Adelson is a Mammon'$ Boy

Sheldon Adelson (RightWeb profile)
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Adelson_Sheldon

K&R

[HooptieWagon]

26. He should focus on staying out of prison. Nt