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June 6, 2016

The UN's Hypocrisy Blacklist

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"Last week a coalition of Palestinians and their supporters held a 'Global Day of Action' to urge Fidelity Investments of Boston to divest its portfolios from the Internet-based rental properties firm Airbnb unless Airbnb agrees to no longer list rental properties in 'illegal' Israeli settlements in the West Bank... Protesters demand that Fidelity withdraw its money out of Airbnb or be blacklisted on a new United Nations database of companies complicit in Israeli settlements on the West Bank.

The database was approved in March by the U.N. Human Rights Council, a reliably pliant tool of the Palestinian war against the state of Israel. The blacklisting of companies doing business with Israel could boost the BDS movement, which encourages (or more to the point, 'intimidates' and 'threatens') companies to 'boycott, divest and sanction' Israeli companies - or else...

Until the extreme elements of the Palestinians, including the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, forsake their terrorist ties and its stated goal of a Middle East without Israel, BDS and similar efforts to undermine the Israeli economy will remain as Muslim fantasy..."
Date
June 6, 2016
Title
Hypocrisy Blacklist, The Washington Times
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/6/editorial-palestinians-enlist-un-to-threaten-israe/
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