Israel Facing New Divestment Support In US

[Purveyor]

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to pressure Israel to comply with international law and end its military occupation of Palestinian territories, has garnered significant institutional and governmental support in recent years.

Much of its growth has been in Europe, but the BDS movement is also gaining momentum in mainstream USA.

The Presbyterian Church (USA) voted in June to divest from three companies doing business with Israel: Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett-Packard.

The three were targeted for selling equipment used to facilitate Israel’s illegal activities on occupied land, highlighting yet again the question of corporate responsibility regarding international law and human rights.

Crushed to death

In 2003, when student activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death in Gaza as she tried to prevent the razing of a Palestinian home, much attention was directed to the manufacturer of the Israeli bulldozer that killed her.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/07/presbyterian-israel-facing-new-divestment-support-us-20147238133786329.html

[4now]

1. The BDS movement is getting stronger everyday

People are getting sick of Israeli Apartheid and are speaking up.

[King_David]

2. Not really , investment in Israel is never better.

Israel Tech Firms Score $1B in Investment Cash

Start-Up Nation Shrugs Off War Fears

By JTA

Published July 16, 2014.

Israeli high-tech firms raised $930 million in the second quarter of 2014, the sector’s strongest quarter in more than a decade.

The figure, drawn from a survey by the Israeli Venture Capital Research Center and financial firm KMPG, was the highest quarterly figure since 2000 and an increase of 109 percent from one year ago.

Combined with the results from the first quarter of this year, Israeli high-tech firms raised $1.6 billion in the first half of 2014, which the research center calls “the strongest capital raising period on record for Israel’s high-tech industry.”

The strong quarter was led by a $135 million investment in Landa Digital Printing by the Altana Group, a German investment company. Life science firms raised more than any other sector, drawing $251 million in capital.

http://forward.com/articles/202219/israel-tech-firms-score-b-in-investment-cash/

[totodeinhere]

5. Thanks for setting the record straight.

Israel is the best country in the Middle East for investing. It's the only stable Western democracy in the region and it has a highly motivated and educated workforce. And discrimination against LGBT's on the job is illegal in Israel. Contrast that with the homophobic countries in the region.

[Fozzledick]

3. Oh Jeez, not this shit again!

Boring obsession you've got there.

[Dick Dastardly]

4. Actually you are quite wrong. Support for Israel is near record levels across the board.

Pew Research poll: US public support for Israel at near record highs

Poll finds massive US support for Israel; Blacks, Hispanics sympathize with Israel more than twice as much as with Palestinians.


The US public’s support for Israel is at near-record levels, according to a Pew Research Center poll, despite the current violence and images of the destruction in the Gaza Strip playing out nightly on television screens across America.

Furthermore, the poll – carried out from July 8 to July 14 – indicates that support for Israel among blacks and Hispanics – demographic groups to which Israeli advocacy groups are increasingly reaching out – is more than double what it is for the Palestinians.

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While Republicans sympathize with Israel far more than Democrats, Democratic support is still strong and even among “liberal Democrats” support for Israel far outstrips that for the Palestinians.

According to the survey, 51 percent of Americans said that they sympathize more with Israel in the “dispute between Israel and the Palestinians.” Only 14% said their sympathies are more with the Palestinians. Another 15% said they sympathize with neither side, and 3% with both sides.


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Even as some critics of Israel claim that Israel’s support in the US is waning, the poll shows that the number of people expressing sympathy with Israel is at the second-highest level it has been since this particular question was first asked back in 1978.


http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/US-public-support-for-Israel-at-near-record-highs-363051

[azurnoir]

7. not so much IF you're a Democrat that 51% was ar arrived by averaging 3 catergories D, R, and I

These views are little changed from April, before the recent outbreak of Mideast violence. However, the share of Republicans who sympathize more with Israel has risen from 68% to 73%; 44% of Democrats express more sympathy for Israel than the Palestinians, which is largely unchanged from April (46%). The share of independents siding more with Israel than the Palestinians has slipped from 51% to 45%.

http://www.people-press.org/2014/07/15/as-mideast-violence-continues-a-wide-partisan-gap-in-israel-palestinian-sympathies/

[PCIntern]

6. wishful thinking...

keep saying it and soon you will begin to believe it yourself.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. Thanks for the kick.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. That's awesome to know. Thanks for posting.

Meanwhile there are some kindergarten drop outs dragging David Duke, the IDF, and Hamas around: pretending that they are relevant.


What is relevant is Israeli atrocities, occupation, colonization and apartheid.

The kindergarten clowns know that BDS is coming on strong, South Africa style, and the only thing that they can do is throw their poop at it. I wonder if they are paid in greenbacks or sheqalim.