[Peace-discuss] News Gazoo against BDS

[C G Estabrook]

And the fiery liberal spirits whom this area sends to the Illinois legislature - having been lobbied by the Israeli consulate in Chicago - couldn’t bring themselves to vote against legislation that prohibits the U of I  (among others) from investing in companies that boycott Israeli businesses because of Israeli human rights violations (including businesses based in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in contravention of international law). That legislation is now law in Illinois.

Boycotts of businesses that are based in Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian territory, or that profit from Israeli human rights violations are a means of protesting Israel’s occupation and human rights violations. Such boycotts are legal under US law and have wide political support in the US and internationally, including by Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) in Israel and Americans for Peace Now in the US, Jewish Voice for Peace, the Presbyterian Church, and United Methodist Church in the US. Any private Israeli entity that wants to receive funding from the European Union must demonstrate that it has no links to the West Bank. (The ACLU of Illinois opposed the legislation.)  

—CGE

"For a Responsible Legislature, Vote Against Incumbents. They Haven’t Done Well." 


> On Nov 10, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Been pretty tied up on other matters. But I did want to react to a letter I saw in the News Gazoo: Yes, I was involved in the long struggle on this campus to convince the University of Illiniwaks to DIVEST from the Criminal Apartheid Regime in South Africa. Now the University of Illiniwaks are INVESTING in the Criminal Apartheid Regime in Israel. No surprise there after the Illiniwaks illegally fired our Native American Studies Professor  Steven Salaita and threw him, his wife and their  baby out into the street with no visible means of support at the behest of the local Zionists. fab
>  
> Francis A. Boyle
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> From: Boyle, Francis A 
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2017 9:39 AM
> To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; peace-discuss at anti-war.net; C. G. ESTABROOK <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; Joe Lauria <joelauria at gmail.com>; Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23 at yahoo.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>; abass10 at gmail.com; mickalideh at gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina at worldcantwait.net>; chicago at worldcantwait.net; Jay <futureup2us at gmail.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>; Estabrook, Carl G <galliher at illinois.edu>; David Swanson <davidcnswanson at gmail.com>
> Subject: News Gazoo against BDS
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> By trying to shore up the collapsing Zionist criminal apartheid regime in Israel, the University of Illiniwaks has once again placed itself on the wrong side of History and Principle along with Chief Illiniwak.
> Fab
> D in BDS.
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> Francis A. Boyle
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