Marrickville Council first to support the boycott Israel campaign

Great move Marrickville Council, let's hope this will help forestall "Cast Lead 2"...

Quoting from http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22647 on warnings of a new massive attack on the beleaguered people of Gaza:

Influential Israeli journalist, Ron Ren-Yishai, who wrote on December 29, 2010, of the likely prospect of a new major IDF attack, quoting senior Israeli military officers as saying "It's not a question of if, but rather of when," a view that that is shared, according to Ren-Yishai, by "government ministers, Knesset members and municipal heads in the Gaza region".

Tonight on the ABC news, the Mayor, Fiona Byrnes, said that the Councilors voted to boycott Israel because the "community told them that is what they wanted". I'd like to ask Ms Byrnes to prove that there was in fact community consensus regarding the boycott of Israel and ask her how that so-called consensus was actually obtained? Talking to staff at the council I have been informed that Marrickville Council usually follows a due process called an 'Action Plan' when they want feedback from the community. I have also been told by staff on the council that the boycott of Israel was never part of this 'Action Plan'. I feel appalled and totally let down that my council should thrust their own personal and political agenda onto the community they are supposed to be representing. You have encouraged an anti-semitic back lash and created a thoroughly divisive situation. Shame on you, you bigoted self-righteous, politicians who sit in your ivory castles, throwing stones and making enemies of others.

I am Jewish and at times ashamed to be because of the way Israel treats its neighbours. but please don't think all Jewish people are inhuman i too support the boycott.

Unilateral declarations like this are part of a squalid agenda in the Arab world, and by unquestioning supporters and outright Jew-haters in the West, to try to destroy Israel through disinformation and delegitimisation, having failed to do it with invasions, an economic embargo, bus bombings and rocket attacks. It's fine to level criticism at Israel when the grounds are genuine, as they often are, but not if it treats the entire Arab-Israeli conflict as a one-sided affair.
Let's show a balanced approach by calling for a boycott against ALL Palestinian products and contacts until they: stop firing rockets at Israeli civilians; stop the vile, racist hatemongering in their press and textbooks; stop cynically refusing face to face talks with Israel until settlement freezes are just about to expire; stop the abduction attempts on Israeli soldiers and civilians; release Gilad Shalit or afford him the same Red Cross access and human rights that Arab prisoners have in Israeli gaols;stop forced Islamisation in Gaza; stop machine-gunning opposition protest rallies; stop the torturing and extra-judicial killings of political opponents; and stop siphoning billions in foreign aid to the families of the Palestinian elite (e.g. Mahmoud Abbas' mysteriously rich son in Qatar).
And, come on, Marrickville, let's boycott and blockade the countries supplying the weapons and training that help perpetuate the conflict: the United States in the case of Israel, and the grubby dictatorships that support Palestinian terrorism (Lebanon, Syria, Venezuela and Iran).
Then, shall we hold other countries to the standard of behaviour we demand of Israel? Why are we not as outraged by the far worse conduct of the authorities in Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria or Yemen? Why aren't we demanding that Russian settlers, for example, get out of Georgia or Sakhalin (they're still building new settlements and expanding existing ones, creating facts on the ground), or Chinese settlers out of Tibet? Why don't we selectively label and boycott goods made by Chinese settlers in Xinjiang and Tibet? Why don't we force South Korea to open its border to the poor starving North? Why are we outraged by Israel's 'genocide' of Gazans in 2008-2009 (death toll 1400), but not by the (to date) 114 000 dead Arab men, women and children of the Iraq War, launched on the basis of a lie, against a country not directly threatening us, by a Coalition including New Zealand and Australia? So, in fact, why don't we boycott Marrickville?.

Well done Marrickville Council for having the courage to stand up and be counted on the blind spot that the west shares with Israel. Years of international isolation, sanctions and UN condemnation only made them more independent and resolute - but when Australia & New Zealand boycotted the rugby it had a huge impact because South Africans got the message that Apartheid was not acceptable any more. The parallels with Israel are stunning.

Have a look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel and see how 3.9m "Non-Israeli Palestinians" are squashed onto 9% (2503 km2) of the land controlled by Israel (27,736 km2). These Palestinians live in an open air prison called the West Bank and Gaza which covers 5464 km2 but even here in these 'occupied territories', 54% (2961 km2) is taken up by settlements and the IDF. And as Antony Lowenstein the brave Aussie Jew pointed out in http://myisraelquestion.com/  no one can criticise the ongoing land grab and racism because anyone who dares is vilified as either anti-Jewish or a self-hating Jew. If these "un-counted" Arabs were included with the 1.5m "Israeli Arabs", how would democratic elections go?

Most people agree Wikipedia is an impartial reference, but you might prefer the Jewish Virtual Library and the 1919 "Zionist Organization Statement on Palestine" which proposed to create a Jewish state so read http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/zoparis.html and how Zionism was the reason the population of Jews in Palestine grew from 4% in 1850 to 7% in 1914. Read about the recent immigrants that created Israel today so they could 'claim' the land promised to them 3000 years prior in a biblical story which respected archaeologists say is not supported by facts. Every Australian should begin to understand the magnitude of the west's shameful blind spot - and they will applaud brave people like Marrickville Councillors!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Minimalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_a_Jewish_state

What a great comments page - You have all engaged in better debate than anything I have seen in the big media. Well done all of you from all sides!!

My position is that this is none of Marrickville council's business. The local government act requires that councils "exercise its functions in a manner that is consistent with and actively promotes the principles of multiculturalism." Ie. do their job in providing local services, NOT take sides on international issues.

Also I notice that they did not go to the community on this important issue - it was the opinion of the Greens councillors, not a request from the community. If they want to get into international politics, at least the community should be asked first, then the community should also contribute to the positions that they take.

Thank you Marrickville Council for your decision.

First, let us please remember that Arabs are Semites.

In 1948 Israel’s so called “war of independence” more than 510 Palestinian villages were systematically and ethnically cleansed. The evidence is well documented in the book: “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by the Israeli academic and historian Ilan Pappe (http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/185168467...) based on “meticulous research and recently declassified Israeli archive material”. After the cold blooded murder of able bodied men and boys in these villages, the remainder, amounting to 70,000 old men women and children, were expelled to neighbouring countries to live in refugee camps that are still up until now overcrowded with their descendents with their lawful right of return denied.

The ethnic cleansing continues to this day and more recent war crimes include the war waged on Gaza in 2008 preceded by the war on Lebanon in 2006. In both wars illegal weapons were used by the IDF of occupation. Currently Israel is preparing for future war to hit the region in its entirety.

The indigenous Arab Palestinians are subjected to humiliation and degradation in their homes and at hundreds of checkpoints on a daily basis.

How about the “apartheid wall” built on Palestinian land to confiscate more of what is left of Palestinian land to enlarge the illegal settlements and to deprive many Palestinian farmers from their land, students from their schools, patients from their hospitals, families from each other, workers from their livelihood and villagers from their water sources.

How about the thousands of prisoners that Israel holds (including women and children) that are subjected to torture and inhumane treatment the likes of which have been uncovered in Abu-Ghraib and Guantanamo-Bay?

How about the numerous US-vetoed UN resolutions against the illegal occupation?

And last but not least how about the illegal confiscation of land and the most revered holy sights in Jerusalem that has always been and will always be the eternal city for the three great faiths: Christianity, Judaism and Islam?

So thank you Marrickville Council again for taking such a courageous stance agains all odds.

The vote by Marrickville Council for a boycott of Israel is a disgrace.

Any boycott of Israelis alone is discriminatory given that it is based on an ethnic stereotyping of all Israelis as exceptionally evil, and is implicitly if not explicitly racist. This was acknowledged by the UK University and College Union in September 2007 when they withdrew their academic boycott campaign on legal advice that it was an infringement of anti-discrimination legislation. It is only fascists and xenophobes who classify whole peoples as inherently bad or inferior.

In addition, the UK experience confirms that a boycott campaign will inevitably lead to a demonization of all those who support Israel’s right to exist whatever their political perspective on the West Bank settlements. In practice, this means a boycott of the overwhelming majority of Jews.

The key boycotters are not internationalist advocates of Israeli-Palestinian peace and reconciliation. They are rather unconditional supporters of Palestinian nationalism. They favour the dissolution of the existing State of Israel and its replacement with an exclusivist ethno-religious Arab/Islamic state of Greater Palestine.

Did you know the 1st civilian airliner hijacking in the world was done by israel on 12th of December 1954 it was a Syrian airline hijacked shortly after take off.jews were the 1st to assassinate U.N personal.They tell you then it's to defend israel so why were more than 500 Palestinians killed between 1937 and 1938 mainly women and children but the state of israel was not built then.6months before israel was created over 1500 Arabs were murderd and almost a million scared or evicted from their homes.So it seems the jewish people were killing arabs well before they could use the excuse we are stopping Arabs from attacking israel or the holocaust.Or how about this one in 1940 the jews blew up the ship Patria off the coast of Palestine.The ship was carrying 1,900 illegal jewish immigrants in to Palestine they believed they were sinners 240 Europeon jews drowned.Or how about in 1942 jewish gangs blew up the ship Stromanear near Turkey all 770 illegal jews drowned.Why would they kill their own people you ask it is because these jews did not believe in the creation of israel.No one is safe from these terrorists what about when israel attacked the USS liberty in 1967 israel hoped to sink the USS Liberty and blame it on Egypt but lucky the Liberty got a call out to say it was israel attacking them and US war planes were called back from attacking Egypt 34 service men were killed and 104 wounded.In 1973 israel shot down a Liban airliner over Sinai killing all 106 civilian passengers.The list of terrorist acts go on and on.It seems that if you dont go along with israel and its terrorism you are anti-semetic or racist or a holocast denier or some one who does not want israel to exist but as you see jews were terrorists well before the holocaust or israel was created and as has been said before seminites were Arabs.Then they hit you with democracy rubbish so in 2006 Hamas have a land slide victory in legistive elections in Palestine and israel seized a third of the palestinian cabinet and lock them up in gaol so whats the point of a democracy?ISRAEL are TERRORISTS so boycott them.

The racist supporters of Marrickville's councils boycott of everything to do with Israel, are exhibiting their profound denial and distortion of the facts of history. The people of Israel inhabited their designated territory for more than one and a half millennnia till they were expelled by the Roman conquest;all of which is conclusively established by archaeological discoveries still proceeding today. There is no discovered record or relic however indicating ownership or development of that land by any nation other than Israel. The dispersion of the nation did not terminate their granted land right; and the 1948 return of the same people to the same location, only confirmed their land grant as immutable. Exile from land and final return after 2000 years, also stands as proof of the infallibility of the prediction of these events written 2500 years ago. Contrary to the propaganda motivating the council, Israel's land right is yet to be again endorsed. With equal authority, predictions from the same period are now proving to be as accurate as previously. We are witnessing a coming together of many nations of the world, united in one intent to enforce the establishment of an Arab state within the sovereign territory of Israel, which would inevitably lead to the elimination of the Jewish nation; so facilitating the stated objective of the Arab states which are hostile to the continued existence of Israel. That purpose could seemingly succeed by the deployment of a multi national military force; but in forthright and unequivocal terms, this event has been predicted with the land grant endorsed once and for all. Jew haters need to face up to the historic facts and wake up to what is happening in the real world.

I was reading that it is the policy of the Palestinian Authority to threaten any Palestinian with the death penalty if they sell any property to Jews.

How on earth can this council support the racist and apartheid like behaviour of the PA by boycotting israel, the only legitimate and democratic country in the ME, what an absolute disgrace.

Israel was and continues to be the homeland of the Jews, get over that fact Marrickville Council, antisemetism is ugly, what a disgrace this Council is.

The main issue here is the conflict between Palestine and Israel which cannot be solved or even helped by a misinformed members of Marrickville Council, and it's not even a simplistic human rights problem that can be tackled by a few Anti-Semitics least by a council resolution of anykind, not even a United Nation Resolution. If I might share the following:

PM Netanyahu’s Speech at the UN General Assembly

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people.

The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of such horrendous events. Nothing has undermined that central mission more than the systematic assault on the truth. Yesterday the President of Iran stood at this very podium, spewing his latest anti-Semitic rants. Just a few days earlier, he again claimed that the Holocaust is a lie.

Last month, I went to a villa in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee. There, on January 20, 1942 , after a hearty meal, senior Nazi officials met and decided
how to exterminate the Jewish people. The detailed minutes of that meeting have been preserved by successive German governments. Here is a copy of those
minutes, in which the Nazis issued precise instructions on how to carry out the extermination of the Jews. Is this a lie? A day before I was in Wannsee, I was given in Berlin the original construction plans for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Those plans are signed by Hitler's deputy, Heinrich Himmler himself. Here is a copy of the plans for Auschwitz-Birkenau,
where one million Jews were murdered. Is this too a lie? This June, President Obama visited the Buchenwald concentration camp. Did President Obama pay tribute to a lie?

And what of the Auschwitz survivors whose arms still bear the tattooed numbers branded on them by the Nazis? Are those tattoos a lie? One-third of all Jews perished in the conflagration. Nearly every Jewish family was affected, including my own. My wife's grandparents, her father's two sisters and three brothers, and all the aunts, uncles and cousins were all murdered by the Nazis. Is that also a lie?

Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium. To those who refused to come here and to those who left this room in protest, I
commend you. You stood up for moral clarity and you brought honor to your countries. But to those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency? A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the murder of six million Jews took place and pledges to wipe out the Jewish state. What a disgrace! What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations! Perhaps some of you think that this man and his odious regime threaten only the Jews. You're wrong. History has shown us time and again that what starts with attacks on the Jews
eventually ends up engulfing many others.

This Iranian regime is fueled by an extreme fundamentalism that burst onto the world scene three decades ago after lying dormant for centuries. In the
past thirty years, this fanaticism has swept the globe with a murderous violence and cold-blooded impartiality in its choice of victims. It has callously slaughtered Moslems and Christians, Jews and Hindus, and many others. Though it is comprised of different offshoots, the adherents of this
unforgiving creed seek to return humanity to medieval times. Wherever they can, they impose a backward regimented society where women, minorities, gays
or anyone not deemed to be a true believer is brutally subjugated. The struggle against this fanaticism does not pit faith against faith nor civilization against civilization. It pits civilization against barbarism,
the 21st century against the 9th century, those who sanctify life against those who glorify death. The primitivism of the 9th century ought to be no match for the progress of the 21st century. The allure of freedom, the power of technology, the reach of communications should surely win the day. Ultimately, the past cannot triumph over the future. And the future offers all nations magnificent bounties of hope. The pace of progress is growing exponentially.

It took us centuries to get from the printing press to the telephone, decades to get from the telephone to the personal computer, and only a few years to get from the personal computer to the internet. What seemed impossible a few years ago is already outdated, and we can scarcely fathom the changes that are yet to come. We will crack the genetic code. We will cure the incurable. We will lengthen our lives. We will find a cheap alternative to fossil fuels and clean up the planet. I am proud that my country Israel is at the
forefront of these advances - by leading innovations in science and technology, medicine and biology, agriculture and water, energy and the environment. These innovations the world over offer humanity a sunlit future of unimagined promise.

But if the most primitive fanaticism can acquire the most deadly weapons, the march of history could be reversed for a time. And like the belated victory
over the Nazis, the forces of progress and freedom will prevail only after an horrific toll of blood and fortune has been exacted from mankind. That is why the greatest threat facing the world today is the marriage between religious fanaticism and the weapons of mass destruction. The most urgent challenge facing this body is to prevent the tyrants of Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Are the member states of the United Nations up to that challenge? Will the international community confront a despotism that terrorizes its own people as they bravely stand up for freedom? Will it take action against the dictators who stole an election in broad daylight and gunned down Iranian protesters who died in the streets choking in their own blood? Will the international community thwart the world's most pernicious sponsors and
practitioners of terrorism? Above all, will the international community stop the terrorist regime of Iran from developing atomic weapons, thereby endangering the peace of the entire world? The people of Iran are courageously standing up to this regime. People of goodwill around the world stand with them, as do the thousands who have been protesting outside this hall. Will the United Nations stand by their side?
Ladies and Gentlemen, The jury is still out on the United Nations, and recent signs are not encouraging. Rather than condemning the terrorists and their
Iranian patrons, some here have condemned their victims. That is exactly what a recent UN report on Gaza did, falsely equating the terrorists with those
they targeted. For eight long years, Hamas fired from Gaza thousands of missiles, mortars and rockets on nearby Israeli cities. Year after year, as these missiles were deliberately hurled at our civilians, not a single UN resolution was passed condemning those criminal attacks. We heard nothing - absolutely nothing - from the UN Human Rights Council, a misnamed institution if there ever was one. In 2005, hoping to advance peace, Israel unilaterally withdrew from every inch of Gaza . It dismantled 21 settlements and uprooted over 8,000 Israelis. We didn't get peace. Instead we got an Iranian backed terror base fifty miles from Tel Aviv. Life in Israeli towns and cities next to Gaza became a nightmare. You see, the Hamas rocket attacks not only continued, they increased tenfold. Again, the UN was silent.

Finally, after eight years of this unremitting assault, Israel was finally forced to respond. But how should we have responded? Well, there is only one
example in history of thousands of rockets being fired on a country's civilian population. It happened when the Nazis rocketed British cities during World War II. During that war, the allies leveled German cities,
causing hundreds of thousands of casualties. Israel chose to respond differently. Faced with an enemy committing a double war crime of firing on civilians while hiding behind civilians - Israel sought to conduct surgical strikes against the rocket launchers. That was no easy task because the terrorists were firing missiles from homes and schools, using mosques as weapons depots and ferreting explosives in ambulances. Israel , by contrast, tried to minimize casualties by urging Palestinian civilians to vacate the targeted areas. We dropped countless flyers over their homes, sent thousands of text messages and called thousands of cell phones asking people to leave. Never has a country gone to such extraordinary lengths to remove the enemy's civilian population from harm's way. Yet faced with such a clear case of
aggressor and victim, who did the UN Human Rights Council decide to condemn? Israel . A democracy legitimately defending itself against terror is morally hanged, drawn and quartered, and given an unfair trial to boot.

By these twisted standards, the UN Human Rights Council would have dragged Roosevelt and Churchill to the dock as war criminals. What a perversion of truth. What a perversion of justice. Delegates of the United Nations, Will you accept this farce? Because if you do, the United Nations would revert to its darkest days, when the worst violators of human rights sat in judgment against the law-abiding democracies, when Zionism was equated with racism and when an automatic majority could declare that the earth is flat. If this body does not reject this report, it would send a message to terrorists everywhere: Terror pays; if you launch your attacks from densely populated areas, you will win immunity. And in condemning Israel , this body would also deal a mortal blow to peace.

Here's why. When Israel left Gaza , many hoped that the missile attacks would stop. Others believed that at the very least, Israel would have international
legitimacy to exercise its right of self-defense. What legitimacy? What self-defense? The same UN that cheered Israel as it left Gaza and promised to back
our right of self-defense now accuses us -my people, my country - of war crimes? And for what? For acting responsibly in self-defense. What a travesty! Israel justly defended itself against terror. This biased and
unjust report is a clear-cut test for all governments. Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists? We must know the answer to that question now. Now and not later. Because if Israel is again asked to take more risks for peace, we must know today that you will stand with us tomorrow. Only if we have the confidence that we can defend ourselves can we
take further risks for peace.

Ladies and Gentlemen, All of Israel wants peace. Any time an Arab leader genuinely wanted peace with us, we made peace. We made peace with Egypt led by Anwar Sadat. We made peace with Jordan led by King Hussein. And if the Palestinians truly want peace, I and my government, and the people of Israel , will make peace. But we want a genuine peace, a defensible peace, a permanent peace. In 1947, this body voted to establish two states for two peoples - a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jews accepted that resolution. The Arabs rejected it. We ask the Palestinians to finally do what they have refused to do for 62 years: Say yes to a Jewish state. Just as we are asked to recognize a nation-state for the Palestinian people, the Palestinians must be asked to recognize the nation state of the Jewish people. The Jewish people are not foreign conquerors in the Land of Israel. This is the land of our forefathers. Inscribed on the walls outside this building is the great Biblical vision of peace: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. They shall learn war no more." These words were spoken
by the Jewish prophet Isaiah 2,800 years ago as he walked in my country, in my city, in the hills of Judea and in the streets of Jerusalem . We are not
strangers to this land. It is our homeland. As deeply connected as we are to this land, we recognize that the Palestinians also live there and want a home
of their own. We want to live side by side with them, two free peoples living in peace, prosperity and dignity.

But we must have security. The Palestinians should have all the powers to govern themselves except those handful of powers that could endanger Israel. That is why a Palestinian state must be effectively demilitarized. We don't want another Gaza , another Iranian backed terror base abutting Jerusalem and
perched on the hills a few kilometers from Tel Aviv. We want peace. I believe such a peace can be achieved. But only if we roll back the forces of terror, led by Iran , that seek to destroy peace, eliminate Israel and overthrow the world order. The question facing the international community is whether it is prepared to confront those forces or accommodate them.

Over seventy years ago, Winston Churchill lamented what he called the "confirmed unteachability of mankind," the unfortunate habit of civilized
societies to sleep until danger nearly overtakes them. Churchill bemoaned what he called the "want of foresight, the unwillingness to act when action
will be simple and effective, the lack of clear thinking, the confusion of counsel until emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring
gong."

I speak here today in the hope that Churchill's assessment of the "unteachability of mankind" is for once proven wrong.

I speak here today in the hope that we can learn from history -- that we can prevent danger in time.

In the spirit of the timeless words spoken to Joshua over 3,000 years ago, let us be strong and of good courage. Let us confront this peril, secure our
future and, God willing, forge an enduring peace for generations to come. ###

How terrible and terrifying the Palestinians are. They have started conspiring as early as the 19th century to come to Israel uninvited and to occupy and confiscate most, if not all, Israeli land (plus the land of Israel’s neighbours) as well as raise to the ground many Israeli towns and villages and their synagogues to build on their ruins strategic, military and civilian settlements with mosques and churches. They have even surrounded all the remaining Israeli population that have survived Palestinian ethnic cleansing of the land of Israel with a horrific wall equipped with cruel watch towers and checkpoints, where the Israeli population is insulted and humiliated on a daily basis, and a huge network of exclusive Palestinians-only roads and highways. They have thrown thousands of Israelis, including women and children, in Jails for committed and non-committed acts of resistance.

It is indeed frightening when thinking of the Palestinian lobbies controlling the West, Australia and the US, the white house and the Congress. The Palestinian lobby in the US has managed to make the US government finance Palestine out of US tax payer cash money to the tune of 4 billion dollars annually in addition to all the financial support Palestine’s supporters around the world post into Palestine’s coffers. Palestine considers its lobbies’ work to be more important than the work of its army of occupation and its arsenal of WMD comprising missiles – not the tame Israeli home made pipe bombs but the lazer guided missiles capable of carrying nuclear war-heads manufactured locally in the Palestinian town of Dimona, radar-undetectable F22 bombers (to be delivered to Palestine soon), Abraam tanks, nano-particle weapons + other banned gaz and phosphorous bombs, drones, latest anti-missile missile systems, latest spying satellite systems and self-triggering weapons, Ocean armadas and submarines with an aircraft carrier to follow thus making Palestine well armed to the teeth…

The modern Palestinian army is regarded one of the best trained and equipped in the modern world. An army of occupation proud of its war crimes and targeted assassinations of Israeli leaders and resistance groups.

Last but not Least, the Palestinian secret service is one of the best on the face of the planet with a track record that demonstrates its successful cloak and dagger operations around the world. A recent example is the forged Australian, British, French, Canadian… passports that permitted the “successful” criminal operation/assassination in Dubai. But that is another story…

Ive been thinking why does Israel treat non jews the way they do.After some research this is what i found.The Jewish Telegraph Agency October 2010;Israel Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said that non jews exist to serve jews in his weekly Saturday night sermon "Goyim [non jews] were born only to serve us.without that they have no place in the world;only to serve the people of Israel why are gentiles needed? they will work,they will plow, they will reap.We will sit like the master and eat". he said with some laughter. Yoseph, the spiritual leader of the Shas party and former cheif Sephardic rabbi of israel also said that non jews are protected in order to prevent financial loss to jews. Here is some trash their Talmud and Zohar teaches jews The sexual intercourse of a non jew is like to that of a beast [Sanhedrin 74b Tosephoth] The seed of a non jew is worth the same of that of a beast [Kethoboth 36] Just as a live stock owner has the right to slaughter his animals so the Talmud decrees to jews the right to kill Gentiles [Zohar ll 43a] Chief rabbi of Safed who wrote that renting properties to Arabs would deflate the value of jewish homes and "The neighbours and acquaintances of jews who sells or rents properties to an Arab must distance themselves from the jew, refrain from doing business with him, deny him the right to read from the Torah, and similary [ostracize] him until he goes back on his harmful deed" Rabbis who sighned the petition. rabbi Yaakov Edelstein of Ramat Hasharon,rabbiHaim Pinto of Ashdad,rabbi Dov Lior of Kiryat Arba, rabbi david Abuhazeira of Yaune, rabbi DavidBar-chen of Sderot, rabbi Shlomo Aviner,rabbi Ovadiah,rabbi Yaakov Yosef and another ten rabbis reportedly plan to sign the letter. Rabbi YITZHAK Shapiro [This one is a real pig you can see him in action on you tube persecuting Christians]sanctioned the murder by jews of non jews including babies and children who may pose an actual or potential threat to jews or israel. he also said"if we kill a gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments because we care about the commandments there is nothing wrong with murder. Roman Catholic Father Massimo Panzzini of Flagellation says "we've grown accustom to jewish reglious fanatics spitting at Christian Priests and Nuns it has become a tradition. This seems to to be the mind set of these people if you can call them that.Then they have the cheek to call us racist and anti semitic thats the kettle calling the pot black!

(Netanyaho + Olmert + Sharon) = (War Criminals + Embezlers + Bank Cheats)

thank you all for al l the support for the palestianians... we are so proud of marrickville hope other councils will follow

June 2010;One of the largest protests ever in Jerusalem wasn't about the conflict with Palestinians.No it was white Jews of Eastern European desent upset that their daughters would have to attend school with dark skinned girls of mid east and North African desent.The white Ashhkenazi Jews insist they are not racist ,they are really only ethnic bigots because they don't want to mix with dark skinned Sephardic jews.The protest involved over 100,000 white jews in down town Jerusalem.WHO'S anti semitic and a racist bigot now Boycott the lot of them now.

Whatever.. this is all nonesense. As if Marrickville Boycotting Israel is going to make a difference to the Palestians. Or make a difference to the pouring Wealth coming from the US.
Wishful Thinking..
Good Try Marrickville.
If only we could get Manhattan to side with Marrickville. ; )

Boycotts are not enough to stop Israels demolition of Palestinian homes.On Jan 13 2011 four Israeli bulldozers backed by thirty military vehicles demolished nearly the entire village of Al-Dqayqa leaving at least 300 Palestinians homeless.You have to ratchet up the pressure and i dont think that this pressure (boycotts) will be sufficient to have this regime change course with out credible military option that is put before them by the international community led by Russia and China they will not stop

I'm from Marrickville and Israel would pay me to move to Palestine because i'm Jewish but a Palestinian man can not return to his land because he is not Jewish

Very nice blog post, I googled and found it. So glad I did.

its actually very disturbing to hear how many of you, support the boycott of israel products...
lets get the facts right here...
ISRAEL was declared a state by the UN. israel is recgonised as the JEWISH state since 1948.
Palestine never existed...even in the bible that all you lovley christians pray from israel is stated. not palestine, rather the land of canaan.
all that aside...i will be delighted if all you "fake" uneducated fools, boycott israel products...just remember that everytime you use your pc or mobile phone or ipad or plug in your USB stick(flashdrive) or drive your car from 2000+ up , or use any monitor to see if your baby is sleeping, or go into any major surgery that requries some medical cameras or high tech nano-techonlogy - its all made in ISRAEL! so please go ahead...lets see how far the Lebs in sydney have taken you all...lets compare education vs edication..
people of australia - WAKE THE F(*& up! you are being overtaken by the muslims...but hell....BOYCOTT israel! just dont type back because you are suppporting israel...(FYI every PC in the world holds an israeli made chip in it...) ohh and also every single mobile phone in the world! write a letter and send it...go all the way with the boycott...:) have a nice day pathetic ppl....

Love the comments i noticed that the pro Israeli people ran away because they do not like it when people have facts.They got no come back against informed people!!!!!