Eretz Israel is our unforgettable historic homeland...The Jews who will it shall achieve their State...And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind. (Theodor Herzl, DerJudenstaat, 1896)

We offer peace and amity to all the neighbouring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all. The State of Israel is ready to contribute its full share to the peaceful progress and development of the Middle East.
(From Proclamation of the State of Israel, 5 Iyar 5708; 14 May 1948)

With a liberal democratic political system operating under the rule of law, a flourishing market economy producing technological innovation to the benefit of the wider world, and a population as educated and cultured as anywhere in Europe or North America, Israel is a normal Western country with a right to be treated as such in the community of nations.... For the global jihad, Israel may be the first objective. But it will not be the last. (Friends of Israel Initiative)
Showing posts with label Sussex Friends of Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sussex Friends of Israel. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 November 2014

They Don't Like It Up 'Em! British BDSers "steal" Jill the pro-Israel poster girl


Like its counterpart across the Irish Sea, the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign exhibits an especially virulent strain of the antisemitic anti-Zionism virus.

This weekend, like the anti-Israel movement in English cities (take a look here) as well as here (some familiar as-a-Jews and others in this Alex Seymour/Seymour Alexander video, where the "apartheid" slur is freely made, and in which the London constabulary breaks up the party in the end)


 it's been staging anti-Israel marches in s number of Scottish localities, as seen, for instance, in these sample photographs:





We all know what that so-called "right of return"demanded on this banner held by allied marchers would entail for Israel (and just look at that logo), while the stupid analogy with events in Ferguson has been imported from leftist ratbags across the Herring Pond, and has been further inspired, it seems, by the following cartoon that the Scottish PSC posted on social media:


On hand as usual in Brighton to counter the Israel-haters there was Jill the Poster Girl from Sussex Friends of Israel.


It seems Jill is really getting under the haters' skin.  Certainly, they are unable to refute the good sense contained in Jill's that they've photoshopped it with a pathetic hate-motivated message of their own.


"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", as the old saying goes.

And, as a certain Home Guard corporal used to say in a certain British sit com: "They don't like it up 'em!"

Carry on, Jill!

As a reviewer of an important new book entitled The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel remarks, inter alia, in his review here,
"[T]o single out the Jewish state for boycotting, while ignoring every other state on the planet engaged in human rights violations generally far, far worse than those allegedly committed by Israel – many of them Islamic states – is antisemitism in the nastiest, most odious, most deplorable sense of the term.  No amount of disingenuous obfuscation will change this fact.  On the contrary, most advocates of BDS are virtually apologists for the incalculably greater record of human rights violations carried out in the Third World, and especially in the Islamic world...."
Meanwhile, Sussex Friends of Israel have been showing the haters up as usual.

Good on yah, lads and lasses!

Update: Jill's famous! The Israel-haters have also got a spoof site about our heroine, here (Hat tip: Shirlee) Oh, how well you're doing, Jill, to have such an impact upon their tiny hate-filled minds.

Friday, 7 February 2014

BDSers Beside The Seaside (video)

The Ahava store closed in September 2011 following a sustained campaign of harassment by Israel-haters.  This video (hat tip: Shirlee) shows clearly that the SodaStream stockist in the popular English south coast resort of Brighton is the new venue for BDS harassment.


The bullies are well-countered by Sussex Friends of Israel, though!

Ah, if looks could kill ...


Meanwhile, though, more anti-Israel vilification on the premises of the Mother of Parliaments; see here

Monday, 4 November 2013

In Brighton, A BDSer Faces Bold Questioning (video)

Harangued by members of Sussex Friends of Israel, this hapless BDSer protesting outside the EcoStream shop in Brighton at the weekend reveals what's really on his mind:


As explained here:
'....[T]he crucial part of the video [1 minute 25 seconds] comes when [Simon] Cobb and his fellow interviewer ask the man why he is boycotting Ecostream in Brighton, a shop which is Jewish and Israeli-owned, and if the man would boycott a Muslim, or Arab-Israeli owned shop.
Simon Cobb of the Sussex Friends of Israel, said: “A BDS supporter admits he would only boycott a shop owned by Israeli Jews and not by Israeli Muslims. How is this allowed on the streets of Brighton? Civil and respectful demonstration I will defend to the end of my days, but when freedom of speech becomes words of racial or religious hate, enough is enough.”
Interviewer 1: “If it was a Muslim-owned Israeli shop, would you be boycotting it?”
BDS campaigner: “No, I wouldn’t.”
Interviewer 1: “Well then it’s based on religion, isn’t it? You just said it if was a Muslim-owned Israeli shop you wouldn’t boycott it.”
BDS campaigner: “No, no, no, no… you go to school for this”(?)
Interviewer 2: “But you just said it yourself.”'
For more confrontations of this sort courtesy of Sussex Friends of Israel (and more of our favourite blonde poster girl in action) see here

Update: And (hat tip: News and Views from Jews Down Under)  for Shurat Ha-Din lawyer Andrew Hamilton versus Sydney University's Professor Stuart Rees re BDS see the video here

Monday, 21 October 2013

BDS: Another one for the album

Says all that needs to be said, really, doesn't it?
On the back of last weeks poster, seen and shared by hundreds of thousands of our friends - here is the latest one. Please read the poster, like the post and share with your friends.
Well done, that poster girl from Sussex Friends of Israel!

Monday, 14 October 2013

From Sussex With Sense

A true, pithy message here from a member of the Sussex Friends of Israel at their recent counter-demonstration outside the EcoStream shop in Brighton where the BDS "idiots" were making, well, further idiots of themselves:


More photos here

Sunday, 29 September 2013

"BDS, Go Away, EcoStream Is Here To Stay!": In Brighton, Sussex Friends of Israel Take on the BDSers

Yesterday, BDSers held demos in London and in Brighton against EcoStream.

In Brighton, where the BDS movement musters strong and nasty (see here for example) supporters of Israel were in no mood for keeping calm.

Have a look at this video, showing a big counter-demo by Sussex Friends of Israel against the BDS rabble protesting outside the EcoStream shop in Brighton.  Roars of "BDS, Go Away, EcoStream is here to stay!" compete with the cries of "Free Palestine!" from the Israel-hating mob.

"Boycott the Boycotters!" and "Racist scum!" are heard from the good side, where Israeli flags abound.

(It's stuff to warms the cockles  of many a pro-Israel heart!)

Meanwhile, John Lewis, arguably the best of the big department stores in London, and certainly the one that reports the best trading figures year after year, was the target of one of the anti-EcoStream demos: this video showing the action, but with no conversation recorded, has been uploaded by an anti-Israel activist of Jewish background, whose frequent comments on social media against Zionism and Zionists are often breathtakingly shameful in their intemperate, antisemitism-inducing nature.

Note how most passers-by on the video are literally that, shunning the anti-Israel propaganda on offer (which inevitably includes that ubiquitous, mendacious four-map set on a large placard).

Business for the Israel-haters is so slow that one female Israel-hater, a pashmina draped over ger hair in what is presumably a nod to Londonistan, looks at her watch, presumably out of boredom...

In the background can be seen a group of about half a dozen Israel-supporters, holding two Israeli flags.

They do appear to be keeping calm.