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Monday, December 27, 2010

This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.

Mapping the Organizational Sources of the Global Delegitimization Campaign against Israel in the UK [PDF] - 'In mid-December 2009, Member of Knesset Tzipi Livni, Israel's former foreign minister, was due to arrive in London and make a speech at a Jewish National Fund (JNF) event, held at the Hendon Hall Hotel in London. Having had a warrant issued for her to be arrested for alleged war crimes while serving as a minister during the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead, Livni canceled her plans and never came to Britain. A clip, still available on YouTube,1 shows two and a half minutes of a demonstration held in front of the hotel. This is a rather small demonstration; the few dozen protesters chant slogans such as "Zionists are terrorists" and "Free Palestine." They are holding signboards referring to "Apartheid in Palestine," and calling to bring "war criminals" to justice and to boycott Israeli goods. A closer look reveals that these signboards either carry the logo of the British Muslim Initiative (BMI), a main Muslim Brotherhood front in Britain, or of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and its Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) Campaign. Despite the small number of participants, top UK Brotherhood (Hamas's parent movement) figures are featured...'

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