Anti-Israel Bias
She says the air-defense system is the “one thing that protects people from missiles in a place where missiles are constantly flying at you.”
The vice president’s deputy national security adviser, Phil Gordon, and deputy communications director, Herbie Ziskend, tried to clarify that her silence did not equate any agreement with the student’s claims of ethnic genocide.
“Nobody’s voice should be suppressed,” the U.S. vice president tells a George Mason University student who accused the Jewish state of “ethnic genocide.”
The original Durban declaration was also censured for allowing the presence of overt anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate, as well as including Palestinians as the only group named as victims of racism.
Under Chapter 808, state law prohibits companies from refusing, terminating business or taking “any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on or limit commercial relations” with Israel.
The streaming giant said that the acquisition builds on the partnership it started in 2018 to create a number of animated series based on the author’s stories.
“The Durban Declaration is laced with anti-Semitism, and the goal of those who celebrate it is not racial equality but the undermining and eventual destruction of the state of Israel,” stated former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“The reaction to the revelation has been enormous and unequivocal,” said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, director of policy at Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said WDR bears “a great responsibility not to present anyone on the screen who could spread hatred of Israel.”
“Upon final determination, no pension fund assets may be invested in the company, and DOI shall take appropriate action to sell or divest any existing pension fund investments,” said New Jersey’s director of the Division of Investment Shoaib Khan.
“The BDS movement goes beyond protection for Palestinians; it calls for death to Israel. I don’t know if you can have a conversation with someone when the opening salvo is you need to die,” said one of the Jewish speakers.
“Will we be a party to the anti-Semitic legacy of Durban and continue our descent into extremism, or will we follow the example of other leading democracies in boycotting this conference of hate?” posed Jackie Goodall, executive director of the Ireland Israel Alliance.
