WARNING: BDS SUCCESS ANSWERED BY ‘BOYCOTT ARAB GOODS’ SMEAR
04. Mar, 2011
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by: Stuart Littlewood
Congratulations, BDS campaigners.
Your global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions effort is hurting Israel so much that panic-stricken propaganda bosses are casting about in desperation for something to hit back with… for example, the libelous press release which portrays yours truly and other Palestine freedom campaigners as promoters of a new movement boycotting Arab goods.
This tissue of lies arrived the same day as news that Israel is spending $1.6 million to train “new media warriors” in the use of social media tools for disseminating the regime’s endless stream of disinformation. Of course, it’s nothing new. Israel’s Ministry of Dirty Tricks launched a revised training manual eighteen months ago to serve as a communications primer for the army of cyber-scribblers it was then recruiting to spread Zionism’s poison across the internet.
According to the lie machine I addressed hundreds of Muslim Britons in front of the Libyan embassy in central London and “excoriated the Arab and Iranian regimes for plundering their countries of their wealth and depriving their people of their basic human rights”. And I upbraided them for “their entrenched system of apartheid”.
The Zionist “media warrior” who thought up this garbage writes that my fictitious new organization — Britons for Boycotting Arab and Iranian Goods (BBAIG) — has demanded that all UK importers immediately terminate their contracts with Arab countries, and that I’m claiming “the UK public is supporting our initiative until the vicious dictatorships of the Arab Middle East and Iran are overthrown and their civilian populations are finally endowed with classical democracy”.
Not that Zionists know anything about classical democracy. Rabid ethnocracy is more their thing.
Also targeted, and dubbed a co-founder of the imaginary BBAIG, is Dr Ghada Karmi of Exeter University, whom they describe as “a crusader for the seething Arab population of Gaza and the West Bank”. The public are supposed to believe that she is threatening the illegitimate Muslim government leaders of the Middle East with arrest warrants should they set foot on British soil or seek asylum here. “Under Britain’s laws of universal jurisdiction, war criminals and their genocidal ilk are liable to arrest upon the deposition of a citizen’s complaint before a UK magistrate.”
Well, not any more actually. Israel’s ‘heavies’ put pressure on British government wimps a year ago and our universal jurisdiction laws are being watered down on Tel Aviv’s instructions to provide a safe haven for the world’s war crimes riff-raff who qualify as friends of Whitehall and specifically Israel’s psychopaths.
Dr Karmi is reported to have “cast aside her life-time enmity towards Israel and pleaded with the Jewish state to invade Syria and Iran and wipe out their respective feudal ruling classes”.
Lawyer Daniel Machover and Sarah Colborne of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which leads numerous BDS campaigns, are also named in this wild fiction.
Attempting to strike fear into our hearts the press release contains a footnote saying: “Guaranteed Distribution to 330,000 media, government and NGO activists around the world via Internet, Twitter, Facebook, My Space.” The bogus story has managed to surface on a couple of sites, but all activists (and editors) need to be alert to the new tactic.
Just for the record I haven’t been in London for months, and I’ve never met Dr Karmi. However, she emailed to say: “Why not use it to let people know about this latest idiocy?” Agreed.
Truth is fatal to Israel’s vile ambition. Its propagandists can only peddle lies. For them the challenge is finding new avenues for their dishonesty and fevered imagination.
But at least they keep us amused.
The source of disinformation on this occasion calls himself/herself Baldev Singh baldevrsin@gmail.com. If anyone recognizes the name or address, please broadcast details!
Stuart Littlewood
4 March 2011
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Stuart Littlewood
Stuart Littlewood is author of the book Radio Free Palestine, which tells the plight of the Palestiniansunder occupation.
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Hi Stuart!, Why am I not surprised, at least we know we got ahead of them, we are being chased, which is the three stooges and the keystone cops against the entire Arab social communities and their brains engaged in high gear, what;s not to like about these odd’s Stuart?
Hillary whined incessantly today to her horde that Al Jazeera was whipping hasbara roundly and that the hasbarite community had to step up to the plate and get with the program and deliver some real news, a pretty daunting task for people being intimidated into a see no evil hear no evil speak no evil posture with evil being their loathed master AIPAC and it’s attack dogs in the ADL and ZOA joined by Murdock’s beasts at Fox news, all squealing the sky is falling, the sky is falling in three part harmony, again, what’s not to like about doing academic societal battle with these mental castratos? Chicken little against the massive weight of billions of Muslims having the time of their lives, living the aspiration phase of self determination in four dimensions as the ummah fires them up, what a story, and the zionist response is to pretend that a real human hero is calling for BDS against Arab products????? Hello, we thought you mossad agents were smart.
Oh well, Stuart, mom always said what other people think of you is THIER PROBLEM, to thine own heart be true,brother, and that is a great beating heart for justice and if you just do what it is that you do best, it wont mean anything if the rat bastrad hasbara press excoriates you or anyone else who actually do love human kind and care about the poor, disenfranchised and forgotten people of Palestine and the greater alsmastor of their societies, fractured into refugee camps in every Arab nation, not from Arab despots works, but the evil works of gutless zionists casting about for another free meal at some poor persons expense, let them lie Stuart, we have the truth cocked and ready to fire on a hair trigger, brother and we will bat in anger yet and win the day. This I believe with every fiber of my being, Stuart, and I know that You do Too, together forever ameen, brother, who loves you? I do!
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TEL AVIV | Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:19am EST
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – U.S. chipmaker Intel will invest $2.7 billion over the next two years upgrading its chip plant in southern Israel to produce 22 nanometer technology.
The amount includes a 740 million shekel ($210 million) grant recently approved by the Israeli government.
“We are already in preparation for hiring,” Maxine Fassberg, general manager of Intel Israel, told a news conference. “We are scheduled to start production in December.”
Fassberg said the Israeli plant in Kiryat Gat will be Intel’s second worldwide to produce the smaller 22 nanometer chips.
Intel Israel, which employs 7,057 people, will hire 1,000 people over the coming year.
“There are no plans to build a new plant (in Israel),” Fassberg said.
(Reporting by Tova Cohen; Editing by Dan Lalor)
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It looks like the campaign has come to Canada: http://paulsgraham.ca/2011/05/30/canadians-for-boycotting-arab-and-iranian-goods-hoax/
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It’s still doing the rounds in the UK. I got an email today naming myself as media contact. I do hope someone gets in touch so I can tell them what I think of this.
Alex Harrison
Free Gaza
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