Countering Israel Boycotts, With Glamour

[Jefferson23]

* Too funny.

WASHINGTON — Scarlett Johansson politely declined an invitation to speak to the 14,000 people gathering here Sunday for the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac, as the nation’s most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group is known.

She has to be in Paris to collect an honorary César film award, her publicist said, and then she is promoting two new movies, “Under the Skin” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” Aipac’s members will have to settle for Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew as a Sunday headliner.

But the Hollywood actress will be at Aipac in spirit. After refusing to give up an endorsement deal with SodaStream, an Israeli company that has a factory in a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Ms. Johansson has become a hero to pro-Israel activists — a living, breathing, deeply glamorous repudiation of the movement to boycott Israel.

In speeches by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials next week, Aipac plans to pound the drums about what it regards as the pernicious motives of the anti-Israel campaign, known formally as the boycott, divestment and sanctions, or B.D.S., movement.




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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Some humorous attempts at being truths.

Aipac’s response is to push for expanded engagement with Israel, and to urge Congress to battle against Palestinian efforts to exclude Israel from international organizations. “Our message is one of inclusion,” said a senior Aipac official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, in keeping with the group’s practice.

And...

“For Israel, there’s an increasing delegitimization campaign that has been building up,” Mr. Kerry said. “People are very sensitive to it. There are talk of boycotts and other kinds of things.”

Mr. Kerry came under fierce fire from Israeli officials for his remarks. One said that Israel would never negotiate “with a gun at its head.” Mr. Netanyahu, while not criticizing Mr. Kerry directly, said, “Attempts to impose a boycott on the state of Israel are immoral and unjust.”

And...

Mr. Block’s nonprofit group has turned Ms. Johansson into a poster girl for the pro-Israel movement. It started an online campaign, after she appeared in a commercial for SodaStream during the Super Bowl, to thank her for being “our Super Bowl M.V.P.” — complete with a sultry, retouched photograph of the actress, a peace tattoo stamped on her bare shoulder.

I find the one excerpts humorous because...

1) AIPAC has the balls to say that they promote inclusion while Israel does everything in its power to exclude, harass, destroy and kill anything Palestinian.

2) Israel won't negotiate with a gun to its head, but it sees no problem gunning down Palestinians.

3) Trying to make apartheid look sexy is one of the most revolting concepts I have seen so far, minus the real casualties of the apartheid state, and it makes Ms Johannson appear as condoning apartheid with a sickening peace tattoo. If she approved the poster then she is more than just pretty; she is actually pretty fucking dumb.


BDS really has the AIPAC crowd all worked up, and that is a good thing. It shows how tied they are to the trappings of their "Greater Israel" nonsense so much that their words and visuals are not only hollow but perverse as well.

BDS.

[Jefferson23]

2. AIPAC is on defense and they are not

comfortable with that position. That is what I find amusing about it....that and the
photo shop pic of Ms. Johansson...who politely declined to attend. lol