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BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Bjørnar Moxnes is a member of the Norwegian Parliament

Awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to the BDS movement would be a powerful sign demonstrating that the international community is committed to supporting a just peace in the Middle East and using peaceful means to end military rule and broader violations of international law.

The Shuafat refugee camp can be seen across the separation wall from the Israeli settlement Pisgat Ze'ev. Credit: Jillian Kestler-D’Amours/IPS

OSLO, Norway, Feb 2 2018 (IPS) - As a member of the Norwegian parliament, I proudly use my authority as an elected official to nominate the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nominating the BDS movement for this recognition is perfectly in line with the principles I and my party hold very dear. Like the BDS movement, we are fully committed to stopping an ascendant, racist and right-wing politics sweeping too much of our world, and securing freedom, justice and equality for all people.

Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement and the American Civil Rights movement, the grassroots, Palestinian-led BDS movement is a peaceful, global human rights movement that urges the use of economic and cultural boycotts to end Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights and international law.

Awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to the BDS movement would be a powerful sign demonstrating that the international community is committed to supporting a just peace in the Middle East and using peaceful means to end military rule and broader violations of international law.The BDS movement seeks to end Israel’s half-century of military rule over 4.5 million Palestinians, including the devastating ten-year illegal siege collectively punishing and suffocating nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, the ongoing forcible eviction of Palestinians from their homes, and the theft of Palestinian land through the construction of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

It seeks equal rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, currently discriminated against by dozens of racist laws, and to secure the internationally-recognized legal right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes and lands from which they were expelled.

Palestinian refugees constitute nearly 50 percent of all Palestinians, and they are being denied their right to return, guaranteed by law to all refugees, simply because of their ethnicity.

The BDS movement’s aims and aspirations for basic human rights are irreproachable. They should be supported without reservation by all democratically-minded people and states.

The international community has a longstanding history of supporting peaceful measures such as boycotts and disinvestment against companies that profit from human rights violations. International support for such measures was critical in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the racist colonial regime in former Rhodesia.

If the international community commits to supporting BDS to end the occupation of Palestinian territory and the oppression of the Palestinian people, new hope will be lit for a just peace for Palestinians, Israelis and all people across the Middle East.

The BDS movement has been endorsed by prominent figures, including the former Nobel Peace Prize winners Desmond Tutu and Mairead Maguire. It is gaining support from unions, academic associations, churches, and grassroots movements for the rights of refugees, immigrants, workers, women, indigenous peoples and the LGBTQI community. It is increasingly embraced by progressive Jewish groups and anti-racist movements across the world.

Eleven years since BDS’ launch, it’s high time for us to commit to doing no harm, and for all states to withdraw their complicity in Israel’s military occupation, racist apartheid rule, ongoing theft of Palestinian land, and other egregious human rights violations.

Awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to the BDS movement would be a powerful sign demonstrating that the international community is committed to supporting a just peace in the Middle East and using peaceful means to end military rule and broader violations of international law.

My hope is that this nomination can be one humble but necessary step towards bringing forth a more dignified and beautiful future for all peoples of the region.

 
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  • Misterioso

    Good news indeed!!!

  • CTwildheart

    Excellent nomination.

  • Hussein Hammami

    BDS deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, certainly more than many who currently hold it, but I doubt the Nobel Committee will even consider this nomination. The Committee wouldn’t have the stomach to withstand the attacks of the Israeli bullies including the use of their standard weapon, accusations of anti-semitism.

  • Eric Darden

    The goal of the BDS movement is the annihilation of Israel because it’s a Jewish state. If it wasn’t a Jewish state it wouldn’t be targeted. It is an evil movement led by evil people. BDS is not about justice, human rights, or freedom. It is about Jew hatred. They don’t care about “palestinians” in segregation camps, or those murdered by their own government, or even those killed in Syria. They use “Palestinians” as canon fodder in their twisted war against what they see as an outpost of capitalism. People who support BDS are scum.

  • Sam

    I will never recognize a Jewish state in the same way I don’t recognize an Islamic state which we all call ISIS and I won’t recognize a Christian state also despite that I’m a christian. If you want people to recognize a Jewish state then don’t blame Muslims if they recognized ISIS. now I have no problem recognizing an Israeli state as long as Israel recognize a Palestinian state which they don’t even if sometimes they say they do, their actions says otherwise.

  • Tony Riley

    Obviously you’re a racist hypocrite: Hitler invented BDS

  • Eric Darden

    A Jewish state is a necessity because of the failure of almost every single country with a Jewish minority to protect the Jews’ rights. There are many Muslim states besides ISIS. There are already 2 “palestinian” states: Gaza and Jordan. Israel won’t allow a third to be created in Judea because that state would immediately conduct war against Israel and given the death toll in the four Gaza wars since withdrawal, one can only shudder to think of the level of carnage that would result from a withdrawal from Judea.

  • Fine Withme

    Jews hate every religion but their own they are blatant in their #AntiCatholicism.
    They wish to see the annihilation of #Palestine. Israel is an evil state led by evil people. Israel is about hatred of all religion but its own ‘Nazism’ Hitler taught them very well. Israel like Nazi Germany will use ANYONE for cannon fodder!
    ‘APARTHEID ISRAEL’ LOVING JEWS ARE SCUM.

  • Fine Withme

    Shudder all you like. It is NOT in Israel’s remit to decide world affairs. Balfour did not own the land he gave. It was not England’s to give. Jewry is a religion NOT a nationality, ‘Nationhood’. According to your logic we should give Alaska or some other land, to the ‘Gay’ population because of the failure of almost every single country to give equal rights to Gays. Remember Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine.

  • Eric Darden

    In fact Jewry are a nation as well as a religion which is why they have faced murder on both those counts. If LGBT folk want to set up their own homeland somewhere, best of luck. I doubt it would get immediately invaded by four armies once established. England did not give Israel to the Jews, they simply agreed not to physically block the Jews from immigrating like the Ottoman Empire had done. There has never been a sovereign entity called Palestine, much less one that had Jerusalem as it’s capital.

  • Eric Darden

    You know, I’m looking on Wikipedia for Muslim and Jewish winners of the Nobel prize and it’s rather striking. Since the prize was created in 1901 there have only been 10 Muslim winners. By contrast there have been 22 Jewish winners… since 2005! The Jews have literally made a greater contribution to human progress in TEN years than the Muslims have in the last hundred; despite the fact that Jews are a fraction of the Muslim population. Since 1901 there have been nearly 200 Jewish Nobel winners. Forget Jewish though, let’s just look at ISRAEL: 12 winners have been Israeli (keep in mind that doesn’t include some people who won the prize before Israel’s creation and then lived there like Chaim Weizman). I think all this hostility towards Israel is just jealousy.

  • Seaford

    This is a perfect example of how supporters of Israel prevent themselves from seeing the illegality, injustice, and unbearable suffering being inflicted on the Palestinians.

  • sai

    “Israel, in fact, is no different than racist South Africa as long as it presents itself as Jewish state instead of a state of all its citizens.”
    -Shulamit Aloni, former Israeli education minister

  • Eoin1969

    The Jews boycotted German goods not the other way round.Israel is a criminal racist state

  • Tony Riley

    Wrong on both counts. Hamasshole imbecile.

  • Alison Orr

    Only the ignorant with no answer based on truth resort to name-calling.

  • Alison Orr

    Of course the Jewry aren’t a nation! Are Catholics a nation? Are Buddhists a nation? When people make such inane comments, trying to distort the truth, it just highlights their nescience.

  • Tony Riley

    The boycott of German businesses by foreign Jews was in response to a boycott of German Jewish businesses organised by the Nazis.

    My response to the comment was based on my contempt for Jew-haters.

  • Stef Vanstiphout

    Great, thanks. Apartheid’s gotta stop. I already sent an e-mail to the Nobel Prize committee suggesting Ahed Tamimi for nominee.

  • Eric Darden

    No this is a perfect example of how I respond to anti-Jewish vitriol with snarkiness and derision. When someone goes on a rant about how hateful Jews are and compares Israel to Nazi Germany, you’re not going to have an intellectually meaningful conversation.

  • Eric Darden

    She was education minister for one year in point of fact. She was a hardcore Leftist and said the same crazy stuff that Leftists all over the world say. Israeli Leftists hate their country just as much as American Leftists hate ours.

  • Eric Darden

    Jews are a nation because many don’t practice Judaism in any form and are still considered Jews. They have a shared language (Hebrew), a shared culture, and a shared history. Also, they define themselves as a nation. There is far more reason to call the Jews a nation than to call “Palestinians” a nation since “Palestinians” lack a separate language, racial makeup, or religion compared to other Arabs. They do have a separate shared history but it only goes back about 100 years. If Jews aren’t a nation then “Palestinians” definitely aren’t.

  • Alison Orr

    The logical conclusion (?) based on your argument that Palestine can’t be a nation because they don’t have a separate language, racial makeup or religion, is that Britain can’t be a nation either as the English language has its roots in at least 7 languages, it’s population is originally from various invading nations and very few practise any religion. You say the Jews consider themselves a nation; I could consider myself a brain surgeon, but it doesn’t make me one!

  • Fine Withme

    Anti Israel they deport people because of the colour of their skin.
    77 UN resolutions against it and counting. They respect the recognition of statehood from UN but reject the resolutions the same UN levels against it. They slaughter & imprison Children in the thousands. Viva BDS long may it continue… Until the Evil that is Israel complies with UN mandates!

  • Fine Withme

    Gods curse on you Israel you cruel hearted Monsters, your deeds they would shame all the devils in Hell.

  • MissCostello

    Well said. They can dish it out, but by G-d, they can’t take it. Cowards, bullies.

  • MissCostello

    You should be writing fairy tales; you’d make a fortune.

  • MissCostello

    “there have only been 10 Muslim winners. By contrast there have been 22 Jewish winners… since 2005! ” “Jealousy”.

    How old are you? Ten? Seriously.

  • MissCostello

    Your pathetic little comment counts for NOTHING against the *contempt* decent people everywhere hold for what has been done to the Palestinian people; treated worse than animals in their OWN COUNTRY over SEVEN DECADES. Crawl back under your rock – Apartheid Apologist for WAR CRIMES.

  • MissCostello

    “In fact Jewry are a nation as well as a religion”:
    Really? Can you tell us exactly WHERE these ‘FACTS’ can be viewed /found?

  • Tony Riley

    So boycott Jewish stuff.

    Nobody cares about your neo-Nazi hypocrisy.

    Start with Facebook and Google: 2 Jewish companies that employ thousands of Jews in Israel.

    Use the Palestinian version womancoveryourfacebook.

    Chuck out your mobile phone and your computer, as they all use Israeli technology.

    I always wonder if your support for Palestine includes supporting the fact that forced marriages are legal there, as are “honour killings” of vulnerable women who try to escape from them?

  • Tony Riley

    There’s no apartheid in Israel, of course.

    Head for Palestine, where it’s illegal to be Jewish or Gay.

  • Eric Darden

    re-read my posts.

  • Eric Darden

    I was responding to a guy spewing bs about how Jews hate all other religions and how Israel is like Nazi Germany. You want to have a serious discussion I can do that or we can hurl petty insults and comments at each other. It’s my opponent’s choice.

  • Eric Darden

    That’s not a counter argument.

  • Eric Darden

    I’m just going to call you ‘Sunshine”. 🙂

  • Eric Darden

    The United Nations has not credibility on this issue. It is a reflexively anti-Israel organization. A black man accused of attacking a white woman in 1950s Mississippi has a better chance of getting a fair hearing than Israel does at the United Nations. 164 “Palestinian” children were killed by Hamas forcing them to dig tunnels. Don’t see you too upset over that.

  • Eric Darden

    The argument I made is that the Jews have a stronger case to be considered a nation than the “Palestinians” do, which is correct. If you want to argue that neither the Jews nor the “Palestinians” are a nation, that’s fine but then you have to argue why the Arabs should get a 22nd independent nation at the expense of the world’s only Jewish one.

  • Helen

    well if they accuse of antisemitism, just tell them that you support the pals and that they are the true Semites of those lands.. i get tired of people calling us antisemitic when we are defending Semites. that just doesnt pass anymore.

  • MissCostello

    Don’t tell me what to do. I DECIDE what I read, not you. Answer the question or admit you don’t have one. Why else would I need to ‘re-read’ your posts (G-d forbid) when you can tell me right now what you’ve stated as FACT?

  • nelliephant

    and apart from throwing rocks at cars and wanting to kill jews what else has she done for peace

  • nelliephant

    idiot. palestine doesn’t exist. did it ever–no. did it have a government–no. did it have a currency—no jerusalem is the capital of israel.

  • nelliephant

    she is and alaways has been an idiot. rejected by israerlis 25 years ago

  • nelliephant

    there are 57 muslim states, 50 christian states, several hindu and Buddhist states and ONE jewish state. why do you have a problem with ONE jewish state

  • nelliephant

    yOU’RE A RACIST SCUMBAG

  • MissCostello

    “Responding to a guy” spewing bs” (blah blah):

    No you weren’t; you were “responding” to a *MAN* (try it sometime) who knows oppression & injustice, segregation /occupation, both illegal under International Law; checkpoints & ID cards (as in NAZI GERMANY); house demolition, Bedouin displaced, Palestinian children (unlike israeli brats) tried in MILITARY COURTS (no legal representation, forbidden family visits) all for throwing stones at those who make their lives hell; olive groves destroyed, fishermen shot at, skunk wagons spraying anyone in sight, water wells destroyed, few hours electricity a day, (if they lucky) people imprisoned without charge (or trumped up) for months /YEARS on end. The abuse is endless & the world knows it. So do YOU. Too weak to admit it. Not worth the sht on a Palestinian shoe!! BLOCKED.

  • Eric Darden

    Oh, now you’re just saying things.

  • Christian Schneider

    I hope Bob Dylan gives his prize back.

  • Tony Riley

    It belonged to Britain at the time, as the British had captured it from the Ottoman Empire.

  • Tony Riley

    We can take all the nonsense you choose to invent

  • Tony Riley

    Heaven forbid a Jew having an opinion you disagree with!

  • moosehorn

    I hope the Nobel Committee consider the nomination, that would be great.

  • moosehorn

    You are better in dishing it out.

  • moosehorn

    Ah, the typical arrogance of the Zio-Nazi.

  • Tony Riley

    With your sort, little or no effort is required.

    Make sure you boycott all Jewish inventions.

  • moosehorn

    Yeah, the highest per capita contribution to humanity in weapons and inhumanity, the lowest per capita in morality!

  • moosehorn

    Israel is the only apartheid state, based on the abuse of others by a group of people who consider themselves superior humans.

  • moosehorn

    Britain did not own Palestine to give to the Zionist entity.
    Israel was created by European guilt over the Nazi holocaust, why should Palestinians pay the price?

  • moosehorn

    Typical Hasbara trolls, when they realize they are losing the argument, they resort to insults.

  • moosehorn

    A Zio-nazi inflamed by anyone being critical of apartheid Israel.

  • moosehorn

    “Just saying things” lol, that MissCostello must have a wild imagination!!!

  • moosehorn

    That’s what Hasbara trolls do when they lose arguments.

  • FRANK MILLR

    the nobel prize is just jews giving prizes to other jews.

  • FRANK MILLR

    Why do you think the jews have been kicked out 300+ times over the years, it must be the goyims fault. ahahah

  • FRANK MILLR

    Why do you have a problem for 1 state for Scientologists or flat earthers. ahah

  • FRANK MILLR

    Jews are the most evil race to ever exist

  • Tony Riley

    Wow, that’s so original.

    You won’t be using much medicine in the future, as a matter of principle.

  • Tony Riley

    I know that historical facts are unwelcome, but in 1917, the British captured all of the land from the Ottoman/Turkish Empire.

    There has never been an independent sovereign nation state of Palestine.

  • Tony Riley

    Your real name is Dick.

  • Tony Riley

    Is that what the voices tell you, or are you reading it on a toilet wall?

  • Tony Riley

    Resolutions organised by Arab countries that wish to destroy Israel.

  • Tony Riley

    Israel has killed 26,500 “Palestinians”, and 55,000 other Arabs since 1948.

    Meanwhile, in Syria, 500,000+ have been killed in the last 7 years, including 30,000 “Palestinians”.

    Not that you care.

  • Hind Abyad

    Exactly. That’s what Hasbara trolls like you do when they lose arguments

  • Hind Abyad

    Broken record.

  • Eric Darden

    It’s because of envy.

  • Eric Darden

    That’s an oxymoron. You are just a regular moron.

  • Betty Berenson

    The Israeli army should be nominated for taking Syrians to hospitals in Israel for treatment. Or, Israelis who have brought water technology to Africa should be nominated for changing lives for the better. The BDS movement is made up of liars and propagandists who seek to demonize Israel for nefarious reasons. They do not deserve any acknowledgement.

  • Hind Abyad

    Israeli shot a Palestinian boy in the head today. AGAIN!!

  • Eric Darden

    Most anti-Semites do.

  • Betty Berenson

    Well said

  • Betty Berenson

    All people who are part of the Jewish nation are connected by genes. Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people. Get over it.

  • Betty Berenson

    One half of Israel’s population came from Arab countries, Africa, South America. So stop the lies and propaganda of the Israel haters. Israel is here to stay, it is the homeland of the Jewish people, time to get used to it.

  • Hind Abyad

    Broken record:
    We are the chosen, we have more Nobel prizes.
    We own Google, facebook, Twitter, 98% of MSM media.
    We own the US Congress. We own Europe, the Middle East.
    Zionist motto; “From the Nile to the Euphrates”.

    BTW. Einstein said in 1948; “I’m against a state of Israel because one day a terrorist like Menachem Begin could become the prime minister”.

  • yael58

    Idiots like you shouldn’t use such big words like “apartheid” as you clearly don’t know what it means.

  • yael58

    There are already two “Palestinian” states: Jordan and Gaza.

  • yael58

    If Hitler were still alive, you’d be all in favour of nominating him, wouldn’t you Nazi boy?

  • Hind Abyad

    Treating Al Qaeda, al Nusra, but doesn’t let a Palestinian with cancer pass through check points to a hospital.

  • Hind Abyad

    Arab Moslem and Christians are Semites.

  • Ilana Fine Bar-Hai

    I am shocked that a group that itsrlf is racist, based on lies and twists of the truth could be elected for a Nobel Peace prize. But then again, who would have ever thought Hitler would be so successful? I’m interested in hearing exactly which laws in Israel discriminate against any israeli citizen. The world is spiralling down once again, lead by EU once again. Disgusted.

  • yael58

    Stupid and ignorant people like you who don’t even know what “apartheid” is shouldn’t use such big words.
    And Steffie, if you don’t even know what dhimmitude is, and clearly you don’t, you really do need to STFU re “apartheid”.
    BTW, do you know who Ahed’s cousin is? Your would-be nominee for the Nobel Prize wants to be just like her murdering, terrorist cousin, Ahlam Tamimi. Ahlam Tamimi is the terrorist who masterminded the Sbarro bombing which killed at least 7 Jewish kids. Ahlam was only sorry she hadn’t killed killed more, but you Islamopologists have your panties in a twist over Ahed.

  • Ilana Fine Bar-Hai

    See how bds brings dirty anti semites out of the woodwork? Congratulations Norway.

  • Ilana Fine Bar-Hai

    Thanks Norwegian polititian, Look at who your supporters are. Shameful.

  • Joseph Biener

    Yes, by all means let’s award terrorists with a peace prize. That will make this SO much better.

  • Hind Abyad

    Yawnn…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

  • Hind Abyad

    Syria was invaded by foreign jihadis from more than 85 countries, financed by the Zionists and Saudi Arabia, so go back to Khazaria.

  • Hind Abyad

    She never threw stones at cars or pedophie soldiers obsessed with killing children.

  • Eric Darden

    That’s not a counter argument.

  • Eric Darden

    And?

  • Tony Riley

    Shush, the adults are talking.

  • Tony Riley

    You’re a clown

  • sai

    She was far more than ‘just’ an education minister. Using the word ‘Leftist’ is seen for what it is – a pure & pathetic, adhominem (logical fallacy) attack/argument. A great women, Israeli prize winner.

  • Eric Darden

    As a Leftist she subscribes to the belief that terrorism is motivated by materialism rather than ideology. That is why she fails to understand that the “Palestinians” are motivated by a Muslim supremacist ideology that rejects the right of infidels to live in sovereignty in the Middle East rather than any legitimate grievances. Israel is not analogous to South Africa for several reasons, including: Israel treats groups differently based on them being citizens vs. non-citizens, Arab Israelis have the same legal rights as Jewish Israelis. In fact Arab Israelis have more rights in Israel than they do in any of the Arab countries.

  • Tony Riley

    Racist Bimbo

  • nelliephant

    yes she did. her cousin is a suicide bomber who killed 15 kids in a pizza parlor. ahed is a yazidi kid sold to the tamimis and since abused. that’s why she’s ended up like this. you can see she’s not an arab

  • nelliephant

    i don’t

  • nelliephant

    must break your heart to see the jewish state growing and flourishing. serves you right. as god said those that bless you, israel will be blessed those that curse you will be cursed

  • Dogmom

    People who truly understand the Middle East conflict know that the real injustices inflicted on the Arab population of Garza and the West Bank are inflicted by their very own leadership and not by Israel. Israel has every right to defend her people against terrorism and these defensive actions should not be mistaken for aggression. The wall has reduced suicide bombings by over 90%. Check points keep Israelis safe from attacks. Everything Israeli leadership does is defensive.

    BDS practices a form of terrorism by trying to destroy Israel through the economy and the spreading of shameless lies. It is anti-Semitism by stealth and certainly not worthy of a peace prize.

  • Dogmom

    They could have had statehood many times over by now but their leaders have rejected every Israeli offer, including most of the West Bank. Ask yourself why. Because their goal is not statehood- it is the destruction Israel, “from the river to the sea,”

  • Tzach Auman

    Well, after a full time terrorist getting the prize, this only gives you second from the bottom…

  • Sam Salzman

    For Islamist terrorists and their apologists.

  • BERM40

    einstien has been used by by the deranged psychopathic supporters of the neverlander/ terrorists for years , hes credited for a slew of comments never made your a antisemite, wear the BS …
    it fits your jew hate.

  • BERM40

    In apartheid South Africa the choice was clear and beyond escape: It was good versus evil. Apartheid, apartness, which meant racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority on the country’s black, colored and Asian peoples, was wrong and inhuman, denying freedom and stunting and destroying lives. The problem for concerned people was not merely to do the obvious thing and reject apartheid, but to decide what to do about it. That is, how far to go in opposing it against an increasingly tyrannous government: from being a passive bystander to imperiling your liberty, even life.

    In Israel, the moral choices are many and complex and are a daily challenge. Each of the two main competing groups, Jews and Arabs, has right on its side, through history, land, religion, geography, and tradition. The dilemma is how to satisfy their separate demands and aspirations for a tiny piece of land. The problem is bedevilled because in the long struggle between them, neither side has always behaved well, inflicting death and destruction on the other.

    Each side believes that it is in the right, and each side fears and rejects the other. Jews and Arabs are a mirror image of each other: each believes that force is the only language that the other understands; each believes that the other is trying to wipe it out. That there is some truth in these beliefs on both sides adds to the complexities.

    The ugly reality must not be denied, as some do from the standpoint that Israel can do no wrong or that it must be defended at all costs against its enemies. Anti-Semitism is certainly a factor behind some of the attacks on Israel, but it must not be overstated, as some do, as a means of counterattacking. The Holocaust is inextricably bound up with Israel’s existence, but it must not be misused, as some do, as an emotional weapon to silence genuine critics.

    At the other extreme, Israel’s failings and mistakes must not be used, as some do, as an excuse—even more, a cover—for condemning Israel to the extent of denying its very right to exist.

    Israel’s accomplishments are wondrous; but it is not a perfect society and its people sometimes behave badly and violate their moral standards, like people anywhere in the world. They must be judged and treated the same as other people and countries. None of it has lessened my belief in Zionism or the imperative of Israel as a home and sanctuary for Jews.

    Israel is accused of being “like apartheid South Africa” or it is the “new apartheid” or it is “reminiscent of apartheid” or it “resembles apartheid” or it is “tantamount” to apartheid or it has “elements” of apartheid or it perpetrates the “principle” of apartheid, or it is even “worse than apartheid.” These phrases are used mainly in regard to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, but some critics also apply them to Israel itself.

    They are more than mere words: the obvious aim is to have Israel declared as illegitimate a state as was South Africa and hence open to international sanctions. And even more, at least for some, to deny the validity of its existence.

    If the apartheid accusation is correct, then Israel merits harsh condemnation. For it to be an apartheid state would be a betrayal of the Jewish ethics that underpin its existence, of the dreams of its founders, and of the words of the Declaration of Independence of May 14, 1948: “The State of Israel . . . will be based on the precepts of liberty, justice, and peace taught by the Hebrew Prophets; will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed or sex…”

    Use of the word apartheid in the world has broadened and softened, referring to just about anything that means separation. In Cuba, the ban on tourists staying at swank hotels was labeled as “tourism apartheid” before it ended in 2008. A ban on some bathing costumes on Brazil’s beaches was described as “bikini apartheid.” In Britain, bans on same-sex marriages were described as “a form of sexual apartheid.” The fact that racial minorities, especially blacks, are the majority in U.S. prisons has been called the “New American apartheid.”

  • BERM40

    unfortunately the anti semite core of nazi-like values still remain in europe , it seems no where more so than n. europe sweden , nederlands etc…

  • Red Robbo

    Campaigners for Palestinian ‘freedom’, who often argue that sanctions brought down the apartheid regime of South Africa and they are what will bring down the apartheid regime of Israel, ignore the lesson of history. The election of the ANC to power was supposed to see the grinding poverty of the townships ended, but the ANC have turned out to be powerless to run capitalism in a way that would end exploitation and poverty. Capitalism means the continuation of war and want. Workers have no country.

  • Nannette

    If the Norwegians want the hateful, genocidal, BDS movement to be nominated for a Nobel Prize, then we, as democratic, freedom loving people choose to boycott ALL Norwegian products!

  • moosehorn

    Your anti-Semitic card is overplayed and worn out try a different tactic.

  • Ilana Fine Bar-Hai

    It got millions of us killed so I will keep using it Everytime an antisemite raises his ugly hatred.

  • moosehorn

    A Zionist outpouring hysteria, finger pointing and anti-Semitic accusations for the only reason that BDS could be nominated for the Nobel peace prize!

  • Ilana Fine Bar-Hai

    Yes, sad but true. Just look how many popped up here thanks to this Norwegian with his absurd idea. Says a lot about him and who supports him…

  • Elaine Kelley

    I support BDS, It’s nonviolent and transformational.

  • moosehorn

    I see, all them odious separation walls are only there for decoration!
    Now, here is a well trained hasbara troll attempting to deny the Israeli apartheid and the imposed oppression of the Palestinian people.

  • moosehorn

    Criticizing rogue Israel and those who justify its misbehaviours has nothing to with anti-Semitism.

  • moosehorn

    Yet, you will be labelled as an anti-Semite.

  • Ilana Fine Bar-Hai

    Just your choice of adjectives shows otherwise. Enough. You are hateful. You have nothing more to add to the discussion, I have said what I I have and you have shown who you are so it should senseless to continue and get more hateful and racist comments on here

  • Cpt_Justice

    And yet when I point out to Norwegians how antisemitic their society is, they are shocked & furious that I could dare to even suggest it! That anyone with any critical thinking skills at all could buy into the lies this person is so blithely mouthing is astonishing; the only motivation has to be bigotry.

  • Cpt_Justice

    Yes, by all means, answer one set of lies with another.

  • Cpt_Justice

    This is a perfect example of how antisemites prevent themselves from seeing just how deeply they have bought into the lies of terrorists.

  • Cpt_Justice

    Not only is this another set of lies, it ignores the other crucial facts:
    a) Israel is too small to take in all the refugees, and yet NO OTHER COUNTRY AROUND IT is taking in THOSE SAME REFUGEES – and yet YOU are saying nothing about them? Why is that? Antisemitism.
    b)Israel is actually giving them money & free transportation – what othe country does this?& yet YOU are saying nothing about them? Why is that? Antisemitism.
    c) Israel is in NO violation of ANY UN regulations; stop lying.
    d) When anyone uses another person as a human shield THAT person is responsible for their deaths. therefore, the “slaughtering” is all the doing of Hamas.
    Until the evil that is antisemitism is destroyed, the evil that is anti-Israeli terrorism will go on. It is your choice – you & everyone like you – not anyone else’s.

  • Karen

    Oh boo hoo. You’d sympathize with Hitler if it meant going after Jews. How about a peace prize for the ayatollahs? Do you also advocate for the murder of the 7,000,000 Jews in Israel? Because that’s what BDS stands for

  • Cpt_Justice

    What a stupid child you are. Please block me, too.

  • Cpt_Justice

    The word ‘antisemite” was coined by Wilhelm Marr is mean “Jew hatred” because he wanted his pathology to sound scientific instead of childish. Look it up, & stop whining about the vagaries of the English language.

  • Cpt_Justice

    Jordan killed 20,000 “Palestinians” all at once during ‘Black September.” Not that these antisemites actually care.

  • Karen

    Okay, so why does my DNA say I’m indigenous to Israel? Why does science and archeological evidence confirm this? Hitler said leave and go to Palestine. Now the anti-semites say leave Palestine. Well, how about Jews say F$ck you this time

  • Cpt_Justice

    I was going to ask you stop lying, but when you finished with “Khazaria”, I realized that you were actually too stupid to know the difference between truth & lies. SO, never mind!

  • Cpt_Justice

    He’s smearing it on there himself. & we know what he’s using to do it.

  • Cpt_Justice

    You are entirely wrong. It absolutely *was* Balfour’s: the Turks lost it to the English in an offensive war. For crying out loud, what is it you haters that you are all so *belligerently* ignorant? Not even going to address the rest of your stupidity – it’s just too much for any sane person to deal with.

  • moosehorn

    You’re calling the BDS movement racist, and its main goal is promoting the basic human rights of the Palestinian people. Oops I forgot that, for you, there is no such a thing as Palestinians, or may be they are not humans.
    As to answer your dumb question about discrimination: How about the continuous forced eviction, housing demolition, land theft and settlers engagement in harassments, the extrajudicial executions, unlawful killing and excessive use of force.
    The arbitrary arrest, torture and unjustified detention of minors. The West Bank movement restrictions and the never ending violations of human rights, and so on and so on.

  • Eric Darden

    Maybe those of us who support Israel should initiate a boycott “Palestinian” products? Oh wait, we can’t ’cause they don’t produce anything. 🙂

  • Cpt_Justice

    What’s inane is making pronouncements for other groups as if they were exactly the same as your own, imposing your standards on everyone else. Judaism is not like Christianity & to insist it must be because you can’t grasp how it’s not is the height of self-centered bigotry.

  • moosehorn

    No, because, for the like of you, they don’t exist.

  • Cpt_Justice

    You want a cracker, Polly?

  • Cpt_Justice

    He’s nothing more than a parrot. With a minimum of noise he has managed to hit every single talking point of antisemites.

  • Karen

    Show me a concentration camp in Israel that is comparable to Auschwitz. You’re pathetic and you’re throwing genocide around like the candy the Palestinians doled out after 9/11 and Tel Aviv bus bombings. By supporting BDS and ignoring the slaughter of Syrians, Yazidis, Yemenites, Afghanis, Nigerians, etc, you’ve exposed your Jew hate.

  • MissCostello

    What an outstandingly *stupid” comment. Clairvoyant too! Don’t give up the day job.

  • moosehorn

    This clown will twist, contort fart and belch, in no particular order, in a desperate attempt to prove that he lost touch with reality.

  • Eric Darden

    Turns out that basing your entire nation’s reason to exist on the destruction of another country and focusing all your resources on attacking a country that is significantly stronger than you is not conducive to a prosperous and productive economy.

  • MissCostello

    Bullshit is what YOU stand for. Try harder. Yours is crap.

  • moosehorn

    I sense desperation in your tone, or just the echoing of desperate lies.

  • moosehorn

    Oh give it up, if you want to stop the spread of anti-Semitism, start to behave humanely.

  • Connie Goldman

    BDS has nothing to do with anything other than the destruction of Israel. It’s a flawed nomination by a hypocrite who ignores the oppressed in other parts of the world. The BDS movement will stall and go down in flames like all other hate-driven movements.

  • moosehorn

    That is what I call vilifying the victim to defend the aggressor.

  • Minniehaha

    What a well thought out argument. Says all we need to know about you

  • Minniehaha

    How about you give up your bigoted Jew hate instead

  • moosehorn

    Ah, the morally bankrupt, justifying Israeli crimes by other killings. Disgusting.

  • moosehorn

    Does that justify the Israeli crimes?

  • Minniehaha

    Israel offered the Pals a state many times. They can blame themselves and the Arab countries that use them like puppets. I don’t hear you complaining about the Palestinians treatment In Lebanon. Why are they still in refugee camps? Why can’t they own land, get jobs, etc in other Arab countries? How about you educate yourself

  • Minniehaha

    so why was there anti-semitism before Israel existed? We weren’t acting humanely when we were forced into ghettos and slaughtered whenever the populace needed a scapegoat? Yeah, sure.

  • BERM40

    losers and fools.. ya you are both and ignorant of honesty, so sad you’re a corrupted jew hater not worthy of my time…

  • Minniehaha

    Yawn. You sound like a gender studies professor. Gee, no Jew hate agenda there 😂

  • moosehorn

    No one is mixed up between truth and lies such as yourself, and your resorting to insults proves that you lost the argument.

  • Minniehaha

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I curse you to have to look at your lying, hateful face in the mirror everyday for the rest of your life. Terrifying though

  • Minniehaha

    They don’t care because it doesn’t fit their Jew hate agenda

  • BERM40

    BDS movement, should be condemned, Every step and every opportunity we have we speak against it, we denounce it, and we denounce those who are seeking to carry out.

    BDS’s anti-Israel agenda, is always anti-Semitic and it is blatantly and utterly racist. It’s only against Israel – a group of people in one faith – where you see a BDS movement. You see it nowhere else. You can’t name me a single other country in the world, a single other faith or a single other people group where there’s a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement except against the Jewish people and Israel. It’s anti-Semitic, it’s racist, it is beneath contempt.

  • Minniehaha

    I love it. They have to blame Israel because they are incapable of self reflection and responsibility. Pathetic

  • Minniehaha

    Blah, blah, blah, blah. Do you think you’re original in your bigoted views? Heard it all before and yet here we are. And sad for you, but we’re not going anywhere. Guess we’re just your worse nightmare. Deal with it

  • Minniehaha

    And yet we have our own gene pool so, yes, there is a Jewish People. And you deny Jews, and only Jews, our homeland. DNA and science prove we are indigenous to Israel, but that sort of ruins your whole premise

  • moosehorn

    Pathetic or not, It’s a matter of right and wrong, and you are on the wrong side but that doesn’t bother your because you are one of the immoral haters.

  • Minniehaha

    Oh my goodness, the Jew haters have to fall back on their apartheid bullsh$t because the facts don’t support their bigoted arguments

  • Minniehaha

    How about you having an original thought instead of mimicking al the Jew haters who came before you

  • Minniehaha

    Omg, you crack me up. Do you judge Arab countries for abusing their own people? You’re a bigot who hates Jews and your comments reflect it. You can blame us and call us Nazis, but it’s people like you who reenforce the need for our own homeland. Sorry, but we were here long before the Palestinians were created in 1947.

  • Minniehaha

    Um, the wall is there because your bros kept bombing buses and pizzarias. But you don’t care about slaughtered Jews because it goes against your narrative

  • moosehorn

    Another inflamed Zio-Nazi, foaming at the mouth!

  • Ilana Fine Bar-Hai

    Yes. He says anti Israel is not anti semitism and then says if you want anti semitism to end start acting humanely. So Jews are not humane. But Nazis were..and you can follow his logic from there. And I tried to have a a sensible discussion. Ugh.

  • BERM40

    F-ing Norwegians. The people who gave the Nobel Prize to Y-ASS-er Arafat, one of the most heinous creatures of the last century. May their country be conquered by Islam with Godspeed.

  • Minniehaha

    Hahahahahaha. That’s why Israeli Arabs have full rights in Israel. Arabs are in the IDF, on the Supreme Court, in government positions. Yeah, that’s apartheid all right. What rights do Jews have in Arab countries? None because they were all ethnically cleansed. But go ahead and live in your little hate bubble

  • moosehorn

    Speaking from experience, right?

  • Minniehaha

    It’s something called DNA proof, but don’t let the facts get in your way

  • Minniehaha

    Typical ignorance of those so called Jew haters

  • Minniehaha

    My two year old sounds just like you. No! Me decide!

  • Tostig

    So basically, you just really, really don’t like Jews. Why not just admit it and save yourself all this preening and writing?

  • Minniehaha

    what Have you contributed to humanity? Nothing but recycled anti-Semitic tropes. You’re unoriginal and tiresome

  • Minniehaha

    And you’re still a bigot. Carry on

  • Minniehaha

    And it’s only targeting Jews. Hmmmm, sounds awfully familiar.

  • moosehorn

    DNA and science proved that two thirds are Ashkhenazy khazar invaders.

  • BERM40

    there have been many instance’s when the nobel prize has been offered to evil, wrongheadedly, like arafat and obama, Joseph Stalin, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end World War II. Surprisingly, Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939, by a member of the Swedish parliament, an E.G.C. Brandt.

  • Minniehaha

    It would because it will give Jews an opportunity to show what these bigots are advocating – the destruction of the Jewish people.

  • moosehorn

    You want to see a braying willfully ignorant, look into a mirror.

  • Minniehaha

    That we be awesome because than we can make a highlight reel of all her pallywood movies

  • Minniehaha

    Oh really. You’re lying through your teeth. Typical

  • moosehorn

    Displaying Immaturity or idiotic behaviour?

  • moosehorn

    Au contraire all facts describe Israel as an apartheid.

  • moosehorn

    So, apartheid is a big word, and that’s why Israel is establishing it?

  • moosehorn

    Jew-hater is also an overplayed and worn out card, don’t complain when Karma gets back at you.

  • moosehorn

    I have also said what I have to say and you have shown who you are.
    Estalavista, you’re not gona be missed.

  • Minniehaha

    You know nothing about me. I’m willing to bet you haven’t suffered ant-Semitic violence or discrimination. I have, as did my father and his father before him, so call me immoral for standing up for Jews, and fortunately, you’re just another example of why Jews need a homeland. We know exactly what you are

  • Ilana Fine Bar-Hai

    Hasta la Vista to you. Cannot say though, that you are going to be missed, to be honest!

  • Tony Riley

    If you’re a BDS supporter, don’t get Cancer, because Israel is the only country coming up with effective treatment.

  • Tony Riley

    No, the term “anti-semite” was invented by a Jew-hating German.

    Probably a relative of yours.

  • MissCostello

    “comparable to Auschwitz”:
    How stupid you are; since WHEN did Auschwitz become the barometer for every atrocity on the planet in 2018? Do we condone that which is CLEARLY WRONG, because it doesn’t quite match up (in YOUR view) to the evils of what took place elsewhere, years before? Try telling that to a Palestinian, who has *paid the price* in every way, from 1948 to this very day.

    “Jew hate”:
    Tell that to my *Jewish* friends – those (unlike you) who know injustice when they see it, against 1.5 million + men, women, children, confined within a narrow strip of land, every abuse that comes with it, day in day out, for WHAT? Living in the land they were BORN IN *harming no one*? Enough.

  • moosehorn

    BDS is a nonviolent movement defending the basic human rights of the Palestinian people and addressing the injustices they suffer under certain apartheid Israeli actions. it is not in your powers to stop it as you cannot dictate on the international community on how to run their affairs, suck it up and deal with it.

  • moosehorn

    I don’t see any outpouring love from you.

  • moosehorn

    There we go all arrogance about Israel this and the Israel that. Good try.

  • moosehorn

    If you suffered discrimination and injustice, you shouldn’t accept it being inflicted on the Palestinians, that simple.

  • Minniehaha

    Why would I pour love on the people who want to destroy us. I’ll save my love for Syrian children who have suffered chemical attacks. Guess you haven’t much love for them since you only go after Jews

  • Sam

    because these are not Muslim states, nor christian states. these are secular governments that recognize a religion as their identity but not as their laws or legislation. like Britain for example is considered a Christian country but not in their laws. they don’t legislate laws according to the bible, its called a christian country but Muslims, Jews and Christians live on it under the same laws that rules all of them.
    the only states that wants to be called upon their religion are Israel and ISIS. and I’m sorry as long as I don’t recognize an Islamic state, I will never recognize a Jewish state.

  • moosehorn

    Enough of tossing: you are an anti-Semite, you are a Jew-hater. The subject is about The BDS movement being nominated for the Nobel peace prize which unleashed a pile-on of hysteric zionists opposed the idea.
    As for the Palestinians we know, that to the like of you. they are some sort of imaginary creatures,

  • David Barrett

    There is no such thing as a Palestinian people. Where were they when Jordanian rule was in ascendant? They are a concoction of deceit to justify vilification of anything Jewish in this area

  • David Barrett

    Bjørnar Moxnes may be a member of the Norwegian Parliament but his ignorance of facts on the ground and his wish to eliminate Israel off the map by recognizing an egocentric Arab population which is unwilling to accept a Jewish state in its midst, let alone Jews,signifies that he too is an anti-Semite.

  • David Barrett

    Your use of the word apartheid signifies your anti-Semitism. Go and ask a South African what apartheid really was!!

  • moosehorn

    And that minimum noise drove into hysteria.

  • David Barrett

    The so called Pallys have brought all this upon themselves thro bad leadership, financial theft and Jew hatred. Go ask the ordinary Pally in the street – he will tell you the truth.

  • Minniehaha

    Yies BDS is so noble in its Jew hate. Why no outrage about Arabs slaughtering Arabs? Oh yeah, no Jews so it’s super boring and out of fashion. You need a little beret and AK47 so you can look like your Hamas friends

  • Minniehaha

    Yawn 🤮😴

  • David Barrett

    You wrote” They slaughter & imprison Children in the thousands” That is pure slander and totally unacceptable. The Arabs have killed 11 million of their own in the last 50 years and are still at it today . Not a word from you about half million dead in Syria?!

  • Minniehaha

    Yes, and BDS advocates for the destruction of Israel. So enough protestations about how noble and peaceful they are. Go take a nap

  • David Barrett

    No he did not . Prove it – source line and quote!!

  • Minniehaha

    😂 6,000,000 wasn’t enough for you. We’re dealing with reality while you’re starry eyed about destroying Israel. Go troll somewhere else. Why are you even commenting in a Jewish newspaper when your agenda is perfectly clear

  • moosehorn

    Don’t put words in my mouth, and don’t confuse my criticism of Israel inhumane actions toward the Palestinians, with Jew hating. Not all Jews accept what goes on in the apartheid state.

  • moosehorn

    I am not denying Holocaust, you are using it to justify the atrocities the Palestinians are being subjected to.

  • nelliephant

    A virtual guide to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country in South Asia with a coastline on the Arabian Sea in south. Pakistan is bordered by Afghanistan, China, India, and Iran.

    Within Pakistan’s landscape there is the flat fertile Indus plain in east, nurtured by the Indus, the country’s longest river and a key water resource. Pakistan’s north is mountainous. The nation’s highest mountains are in the Himalayas in north east. Pakistan’s largest and least populated province is Balochistan situated on the Balochistan Plateau in the south and west.

    The country occupies an area of 796,095 km², compared it is slightly larger than Turkey (783,562 km²) or slightly less than twice the size of the U.S. state of California.

    Pakistan has a population of 188 million people (data from Statistics Division, 2015).
    Capital is Islamabad. Main port, largest city and business capital of Pakistan is Karachi, second largest city is Lahore. Other major Pakistani cities: Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Gujranwala, Hyderabad, Peshawar, and Quetta.
    Spoken languages are Urdu (a form of Hindustani), English (both official), Punjabi, Sindhi, Dari, Balochi, and Pashto.

  • David Barrett

    Do you realise how much money has been poured into the Pally cause with hardly any progress in building proper residential urban developments , schools for their children and hospitals ? Israel provides their electricity but they don’t want tp pay for it and most of the money has found its way into the leaders pockets [ not surprisingly] , to build beautiful palatial residences for Abbas and his cronies and/or for illegal weapons. Oh! and Abbas now wants a 50 million personal airbus so he can fly to Europe!!All Israel does , after the Pallys turned down 3 deals, is to apply law and order, in accordance with the High Court. Sure a few mistakes have been made but ask the 2 million Arabs living WITHIN Israel where they would like to live the rest of their lives.
    I know what answer they would happily give!

  • nelliephant

    Islamic Muslim Countries Name With Their Capital City and Muslim Population
    Country Names————-Capital———Muslim Population “%”
    Afghanistan—————- Kabul————— 99%
    Albania———————Tirana————– 75%
    Algeria——————— Algiers————- 98%
    Azerbaijan—————– Baku————— 93.4%
    Bahrain——————– Al-Manama——– 99%
    Bangladesh—————- Dhaka ————- 85%
    Bosnia——————— Sarajevo———– 40%
    Brunei——————— Bandar Seri——– 67%
    Cameroon—————– Yaounde———– 55%
    Central African Republic— Bangui ————- 55.0%
    Chad———————- N’djamena ——— 85.0%
    Dahomey—————– Abomey———— 60%
    Egypt——————— Cairo ————— 93%
    Ethiopia——————- Addis Ababa ——– 65%
    Gambia——————- Banjul————– 85%
    Guinea——————– Conakry ———— 95%
    Guinea-Bissau———— Bissau————– 70%
    Guyana——————- Georgetown——– 15%
    Indonesia—————- Jakarta————- 95%
    Iran———————- Teheran———— 98%
    Iraq———————– Baghdad ———– 95%
    Jordan——————– Amman ————- 95%
    Kazakhstan————— Alma-Ata ———– 51.2%
    Kuwait——————– Kuwait City ——— 98%
    Kyrgyzstan————— Bishkek————- 76.1%
    Lebanon—————— Beirut—————-57%
    Libya——————— Tripoli—————-100%
    Malaysia—————– Kuala Lumpur——–52%
    Maldives—————– Kishiner————–100%
    Mali ———————- Bamako————–90%
    Mauritania ————— Nouakchott———- 100%
    Morocco—————— Rabat—————- 99%
    Mozambique————- Maputo ————- 29%
    Nigeria——————- Abuja ————— 75%
    Oman ——————– Muscat—————100%
    Pakistan—————— Islamabad———– 97%
    Palestine —————- Jerusalem———— 25%
    Qatar ——————- Doha——————99%
    Saudi Arabia————- Riyadh—————-100%
    Senegal—————— Dakar—————– 95%
    Sierra Leone————- Freetown————–65%
    Somalia——————Mogadishu————-99%
    Sudan——————- Khartoum————–85%
    Suriname—————- Paramaribo————25%
    Syria——————– Damascus————–87%
    Tajikistan————— Dushanbe————– 85%
    Tunisia—————— Tunis —————— 95%
    Turkey—————— Ankara —————- 99%
    Turkmenistan———– AshKhabad———— 87%
    Uganda—————– Kampala—————36%
    United Arab Emirates— Abu Dhabi————–100%
    Uzbekistan————– Tashkent————— 88%
    Western Sahara——— Laayoune—————100%
    Yemen—————— San’aa—————— 99%

  • Tony Riley

    I’m simply trying to help you avoid being a hypocrite.

    I would obviously be quite amused if you rejected life-saving medicine on the basis that it’s invented by a Jew.

  • moosehorn

    Now you are showing your true colours. Typical Hasbara trolls attempt to explain until realizing that they are getting nowhere and then they respond with disdain and disgust.

  • Tony Riley

    The apartheid state of Palestine?

    No, it’s a mess in Palestine: forced marriage is the norm, as are “honour killings” of vulnerable women who try to escape from them.

    You should boycott Palestine until it mends its ways.

  • David Barrett

    I shall also add that to the chagrin of many this dispute is not about social matters but about religion. The Arab Muslims have been brainwashed into carrying out despicable acts that are certainly not humanistic in the vain hope that their ‘brother’ Jew will be eliminated. No longer are Jews dhimmi !!
    “For the Jews to return to their Temple, the Arabs who treated the Jews badly and prevented us from serving our God must have a judgment brought upon them.”
    The Jewish people , so longa s they maintain their charitable behavior and what I would call their slow return to religious acceptance are in the ascendant ; or to put it into Arabic so that they may understand — insh’Allah

  • Minniehaha

    And you’re making a ridiculous leap. I advocate for a two state solution but BDS doesn’t, so quit with the sanctimonious bs. I’m done with you

  • moosehorn

    Enough, you a morally corrupt, hasbara trained hypocrite with ulterior motives.

  • Sam

    Again these are Secular countries with Islam as their religion. just as the example I told you before about Britain being a christian country.

  • nelliephant

    if you think the islamic republic of iran is a secular state not run by the ayatollahs you’re deluded. try asking ayatoyallah khamanei if he runs a secular state

  • EyalN

    you are welcome to visit Palestinian cities and arab cities in Israel and you will see that all of them have a better life than arabs in arab countries. Palestinians are not welcome in Israeli areas because they kill Israelis. if you are Christian or gay or both don’t visit them because they will kill you. in Gaza they kill anyone that is not straight muslim. sodastream had palestinians working for them but because of BDS they had to fire them and move the company into israeli area.
    if palestinians needs a real good doctor israelis help them, do you know anyone else that help is enemy?
    israel is the only county in the area that help Syrians

  • Minniehaha

    Oh my someone is losing their sh$t. 😂

  • BERM40

    blah blah blah racist scum more bs from the ignorant jew hater

  • Sam

    Despite the fact that Iran enforces laws based on religious believes on their citizens but in the eyes of the international community and the UN they are secular and they won’t dare to say otherwise. another example of a bad secular country is Saudi Arabia which claims to be secular but most of their laws are based on a religious book. I’m not saying this is ok I’m just saying that you can’t ask the world to recognize a Jewish state, in the same way they won’t recognize an Islamic state.

  • moosehorn

    According to your tooth fairy!

  • moosehorn

    Oh just another Palestinian, who cares,

  • moosehorn

    And you complain about hatred! Karma will get back at you.

  • moosehorn

    The pot is calling the kettle black.

  • moosehorn

    That makes an expert in misconception.

  • moosehorn

    Your DNA says that you are a Ashkenazy invader,

  • moosehorn

    Wasn’t I right in warning Elaine Kelley about the attacks of the likes of you?

  • Minniehaha

    You go on and on and on and on and on without hearing a thing. You’re so determined to make your point you don’t care about what anyone says. yes, we know you’re mother Theresa and Gandhi but without the the class, piety and rational thought. You’re arguing with someone who believes in a two state solution, but you won’t give Jews self determination. I can’t imagine what you must be like on a bad day 🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉

  • moosehorn

    Hope that it will teach the rabid Zionists that their desperate Intimidation tactics are void of legitimacy.

  • moosehorn

    TO your wee brain all words are too big to be used.