[ April 17, 2024 ]
Progress in our fight against the war against the Jews. Excelsior!
Assemblyman Dov Hikind is a singular, brave fighter in the defense of the Jewish people.
Jewish quislings ike UJA President Alisa Doctoroff, UJA NY, Carole Zabar, Karen Adler, the Bronfman Foundation, Saul Zabar, Jim Joseph Foundation, Andre Leichtag, David Hochberg, the Jewish Communal Fund, Edith Everett, Rosenzweig Coopersmith Foundation, Max and Andre Leichtag, Geoffrey Biddle, David Eisner, Leichtag Foundation, the Kathryn Ames Foundation who provide financial support of BDS groups through Israel’s enemies like the New Israel Fund take heed.
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Assemblyman Dov Hikind speaking our our anti-jihad rally last summer in New York’s Union Square
“New York Bill to Ban Business With ‘Vicious’ Israel-Boycotters,” Israel National News, May 26, 2015
Building on momentum set by bills in Illinois and other states, Assemblyman Hikind drafting bill to combat ‘anti-Semitic’ BDS in New York.
New York State legislators are working on a bill to ban the state’s pension fund from doing business with companies that boycott Israel.
The proposed bill is being spearheaded by Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), and already has the support of more than a dozen Assembly Members on both sides of the aisle.
It follows a series of similar bills passed by overwhelming majorities in other US states, most recently in Illinois, where legislators unanimously voted for a bill banning the state from investing in companies which in any way participate in a boycott of Israel. That bill is now set to be signed by the State’s Governor, at which point it will become official, binding state law.
The Illinois bill is one of the strongest anti-BDS moves in state legislature passed recently, following similar moves by Indiana and Tennessee.
Now Hikind wants to replicate that legislation in New York to combat the anti-Israel boycott campaign, which he branded anti-Semitic.
“Thanks to a well-oiled propaganda machine, Israel is a uniquely vilified nation state,” said Hikind, a staunch supporter of the State of Israel. “The BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), the strategy of economic warfare, is rooted in anti-Semitism and a denial of Israel’s right to exist. It’s purpose is to delegitimize Israel.”
“There’s no BDS movement against any other country,” he noted. “It’s time for New York State to make it clear where we stand.
“I applaud the lawmakers in Illinois who unanimously recognized the implicit lawlessness of boycotting Israel and I am proud to raise my voice, along with my colleagues in the Assembly, in support of ending the unethical, disingenuous, and frankly racist boycott against this legitimate nation and its people.”
The initial list of NY State Assembly Members supporting anti-BDS bill includes:
Peter Abbate (D-Brooklyn)
Alec Brook-Krasny (D-Brooklyn)
Steven Cymbrowitz (D-Brooklyn)
Michael Fitzpatrick (R-Long Island)
Phillip Goldfeder (D-Queens)
Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Island)
Charles Lavine (D-Long Island)
David McDonough (R-Long Island)
Walter Mosley (D-Brooklyn)
Joseph Saladino (R-Long Island)
Michael Simanowitz (D-Brooklyn)
David Weprin (D-Queens)Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Assemblyman Hikind praised the “amazing the overwhelming support” across both isles for the initiative, as well as in states where similar bills have already passed.
He said his proposed bill would be “almost the same as in Illinois,” where he hailed the “amazing vote on their part.”
“I am very excited about this,” Hikind said of the growing momentum behind such initiatives.
“It’s a real effort to make a difference in terms of this malicious, vicious, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel movement, whose goal is to delegitimize Israel.”
“What’s most remarkable is that there’s no other problem in the world, no other country in the world that they have an issue with,” Hikind said.
“They don’t have a problem with Russia, China, or any other countries which regularly carry out serious abuses of human rights. There’s only one place they target – a country so small you can hardly see it on a map of the Middle East.”
In contrast, he pointed to Israel’s strong democratic tradition: “There is hardly a country in the world where there is more open debate in the media… or in terms of civil rights and democracy, than Israel.”
Despite the significance of such bills on a legal level, Hikind insisted that “legislation is just one part” of the battle against the BDS movement, and called for grassroots activists to step up their efforts to counter the anti-Israel narrative, particularly on American university campuses.
But he noted that the bills themselves also represent an important watershed in terms of framing a counter-narrative to BDS.
“It represents a recognition that – in spite of the propaganda by BDS – this is a movement that is not simply ‘anti-Zionist’ but anti-Semitic,” he stated.
“When people are educated on this issue they recognize what this is all about. It’s not about settlements in Judea and Samaria, it’s about the very existence of the State of Israel.”
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8 years ago
Government has no business acting as an Investment Trust for other people’s money. It is, as illustrated here, an open invitation to politicization. (The first abuse is to immunize a subset of citizens, and only a favored subset, from the horror of investment loss for their individual accounts.)
8 years ago
the soon-to-be completed Abraj Kudai, a new hotel in Mecca which will have 10,000 guest rooms, 70 restaurants, four helipads, and five floors reserved for the sole use of the Saudi royal family.
you’re not allowed to stay there unless you’re Muslim.
quoting a passage from a Saudi hotel directory: “Islam is the official religion of Saudi Arabia. Churches of other religious denominations do not exist in the kingdom.”
And yet American companies which care deeply about social justice at home are happy to accommodate discrimination abroad. Remember last year when Starbucks decided to ban customers who were legally carrying firearms from its stores? Because to Starbucks, progressive ideals are more important that constitutionally-enshrined rights. Well in downtown Mecca there’s a Starbucks. And not only is it inaccessible to non-Muslims, but it’s segregated by gender, too.
Cue the outrage in . . . never mind…no more mosque in usa contact your politicians today ..usa..dott..gov
8 years ago
Reply to
jammy jimmy
Non-muslims aren’t allowed in Mecca…period. The penalty for anyone not-a-muslim caught in Mecca is death.
8 years ago
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8 years ago
Reply to
jammy jimmy
Saudi royal family … Revelation 17 the harlot that is riding the beast I/e Islam…
8 years ago
Pass the bill.
8 years ago
I recently left a pro-Israel support group because of the harassment received from Jewish members. They questioned my motives for belonging to the group and for writing too many pieces against Palestine. The local Palestinian activist campaign is run by a Jew. I wonder now whether this had anything to do with my treatment. Why should I support Israel when so many Jews do not?
8 years ago
Reply to
tommo2
because God said to stand with Israel. please do not turn your back on Israel.
8 years ago
Reply to
Betty4440
Please Tommo2, don’t go against God. Israel is the apple of His eye, His chosen people and we are commanded to bless them. The Jewish Jew haters seem to have forgotten their own special status in God’s eyes. But that’s their sin. Do not make it yours.
8 years ago
Reply to
Lia
God is not so easily fooled by terrorist states as the goyim. King James Version Revelation 2:9~I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN It is easier to fool someone than to convince them they are being fooled. DNA evidence and scientific recreations of JESUS (very dark skin tone) lend more and more evidence that these ‘jews’ are NOT the Hebrews from the Bible. Most likely they are African. Most of the Ashkenazi Jews are from Khazaria or Modern day Russia. White skin, think about that for minute.
8 years ago
Reply to
Betty4440
While your right in a sense it could also mean all the defendants of Jacob and not just the Jews!
8 years ago
Congratulations & sincere thanks to Mr Hikind!
8 years ago
Thank you assemblyman Hikind, good luck to you and your bill.
8 years ago
Hey don’t you think it’s odd that nobody from the right wing is speaking out about the Israeli who ripped up the New Testament?:
https://yahyasnow.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/what-if-a-palestinian-muslim-ripped-up-the-new-testament/
