'Peace' is at hand: 'Palestinian youths' punishing normalizers

'Palestinian' media report that 'Palestinian youths' are acting to punish normalizers - people who try to have normal relations with Jews and Israelis - in ways that only they know how (link in Arabic - Google translation here).

This
came during a dialogue Youth Open which was organized today Sharek
Youth Forum on "anti-normalization with the occupation," the centrality:
normalization of

Bar Refaeli to Roger Waters: 'If you're going to boycott Israel, boycott me too'

This is a day for posting tweets.... Bar Refaeli tweets to Roger Waters (in Hebrew):


רוג'ר ווטרס, כדאי שתוריד את התצלום שלי מהוידאו ארט בהופעות שלך. אם כבר חרם- אז עד הסוף.
— Bar Refaeli (@BarRefaeli) August 21, 2013

Of course, it's in Hebrew so he won't understand it, and she didn't use the @ key so he might not see it. But maybe I can help him see it....


@RogerWaters @BarRefaeli RT רוג'ר

#BDSFail Israeli stores open and Israeli products sell all over Manhattan

When Michal Negrin opened a store in Manhattan's SoHo district recently, it showed just how spectacularly the BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) movement has failed in the United States.

The first Michal Negrin shop in New York City, on one of Soho’s most
trafficked blocks, is the latest of a panoply of Israeli companies that
have opened up retail outlets here: Next door is Israeli soap and

#BDSFail: TIAA still invested in SodaStream

TIAA-CREF, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund,which manages hundreds of billions of dollars in pension money for teachers and other unions, has confirmed that as of July 15, it held a significant position in SodaStream, an Israeli company that is publicly traded in the United States, and that has been targeted by the BDS'ers due to their facility in

EU claims US 'quietly supporting' settlement sanctions

A senior European official told an Israeli diplomat last week that the United States is 'quietly supporting' Europe's sanctions against Israeli 'settlements' according to Haaretz's Barak Ravid.

Last week, senior Foreign Ministry officials said, Ambassador to the
European Union David Walzer met with Helga Schmid, the deputy secretary
general of the European External Action Service and one of

Israel to EU: 'Take your guidelines and put them where the sun don't shine'

Israel has rejected the European Union's guidelines that exclude Judea and Samaria from Israel. The government decided today that it will not enter into any agreements with Europe that are based upon the new guidelines. The government also accused the Europeans of 'significantly damaging' the 'peace process' with the 'Palestinians' by publishing the guidelines.

Israel will not enter into any

#BDSFail Delta Airlines: No, we don't comply with BDS

Remember the story I ran on Sunday about Delta Airlines getting rid of a snack that is manufactured in the Barkan industrial zone in Samaria? You might recall that Electronic Intifada claimed that the snack was discontinued because of where it is manufactured.

Electronic intifada lied.



Heh.

Next person who flies Delta to or from Israel, please drop me an email and let me know what food  you

Delta Airlines bows to BDS, gets rid of Kosher snack on flights to Israel

It's been about two years now since Delta Airlines allowed Saudi Arabian Airlines to join its Sky Miles program. That event caused such a scandal that Delta, which is one of three airlines that flies directly from the US to Israel (El Al and Continental/United are the others), was forced to promise that they would never ask for their passengers' religious affiliations.

Now, it is reported

Roger Waters: 'Some of my best friends are Jewish'

In an open letter on his Facebook page, Roger Waters has responded to charges of anti-Semitism from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Abraham Cooper, after Waters used a giant balloon of a pig with a swastika and a Star of David painted on it in a concert in Belgium two weeks ago. Waters' response: 'Some of my best friends are Jewish.'

“Often I can ignore these attacks, but Rabbi Cooper’s

'Israeli Arabs' back out of Fox store in Ramallah

Two 'Israeli Arabs' who had planned to open a branch of Israel's Fox clothing in Ramallah have backed out of the venture out of fear for their lives. As a result, another 150 'Palestinians' will remain jobless.

Although the owners had obtained permission from
the PA Ministry of Economy to open the clothing store, Palestinian
activists and journalists launched a campaign against the opening

Oh joy! Guess who wants to bring us 'peace and security'

Just one week after the European Union announced that they are going to ensure that Israelis who live outside the 1949 armistice lines will no longer benefit from their occasional largesse, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is lobbying US Secretary of State John Kerry to allow the continent that spawned Nazism to bring us 'peace and security.'

The revival of negotiations between

Jeremy Ben Ami boycotts 'settlement goods' and still takes money from Soros

None of you should be surprised to hear that J Street head Jeremy Ben Ami boycotts 'settlement goods.' What's more surprising is that he seemed to try to avoid admitting it.
MT: Peter Beinart will be featured prominently
this year at the J Street Conference. He advocates, among other things,
what he calls “Zionist B.D.S.” It’s basically a boycott, as I understand
it, of settlements. That’s

#BDSFail (epic): The sun will rise in Binyamina after all

The Animals' Eric Burdon is going to follow in Alicia Keys' footsteps. Contrary to what I reported this morning, it was announced this afternoon that Burdon will come to Israel after all (Hat Tip: Findalis).

Burdon, the former lead singer of ’60s British
band The Animals, last week canceled an August 1 concert in Binyamina
because he had been receiving daily threatening emails, his manager

How BDS'ers intimidate entertainers from performing in Israel

As I may have mentioned in the seven and a half years I have been writing this blog, I pray my morning prayers at sunrise, seven days a week, and have done so for the past 17 years. There was one previous period in my life when I prayed at sunrise every day, and that was when I was in yeshiva. Some of my early-rising friends and I decided that the theme song of our prayer service should be

Europe whines

In response to Europe's attempt to impose the 1949 armistice lines on the State of Israel, Israel has stopped cooperating with European projects to benefit the 'Palestinians' in Judea and Samaria, effectively cutting off those projects. In response, Europe is whining.

The
Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Defense
Minister Moshe Ya'alon had decided to suspend