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Pushing for a boycott of Israel

April 22, 2012 4:00 PM

Nora Kort discusses the Kairos Palestine Document, a political treatise she co-authored, and explains why she and other Christian Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Israel and Israeli goods.

Christians of the Holy Land
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by John373073 June 2, 2012 12:29 AM EDT
Congrats to Bob Simon, Harry Radliffe, and to CBS news for having the courage to study and report the truth of what is happenning in our beloved Holy Land. Public opinion has been so influenced by the Israeli lobby that any critism of Israel is often characterized as anti semitism. So again, CBS is doing a great thing in this report, exposing the real problem in the middle east, Israel. CBS's role is so important, because if Americans only knew what what really happenning over there, they would speak up, and our Congress would stop subsidizing the State of Israel with billion upon billions of dollars. We will continue to pray the truth spreads, because the American People, a just and compassionate Christian people we be the salvation of Christianity in the Holy Land.
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by mikesays May 8, 2012 10:23 AM EDT
Israel has become the home, the epicenter, of False. The State has the main task of creating lies on a massive scale and distributing them throughout the world. "False" is the most universal "Product of Israel."

It is so thick and it spreads to the US with ease. The ingenuity, rather the "disingenuity," of US groups like AMCHA and Stand With US is breathtaking in this regard. That's why we need and value Bob Simon ...for his vigilance and defiance.
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by AnericanIsraeli May 1, 2012 8:23 AM EDT
If you must boycott Israel, please be sure to boycott ALL Israeli products. Such as; Cell phones; Voice Mail; Any medical advances coming from Israel; Microsoft 7; Prescription drugs from Teva etc. Don't just boycott Jaffa oranges. See how your life will change without Israeli products.
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by seeker0112 April 29, 2012 9:43 AM EDT
The purpose of boycotting Israel is to pressure it to end its illegal occupation and theft of Palestinian land. All Israel products, especially diamonds, should be boycotted in order to bring sufficient economic pressure.
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by EducatedGirl April 28, 2012 11:27 AM EDT
You can't even argue with someone as stupid as Bob Simon.
Israel is the only state in the Middle East where Christians are guaranteed religious freedom, and the only place where they serve in parliament and on the Supreme Court.
Are you really proud of yourself, Bob? You've ignored all the real problems in the world to waste an entire 60 minutes ranting about an imaginary problem.
What about the Saudi Arabian human rights activist given 4 years in jail. His charges include forming a human rights association, tarnishing Saudi Arabia's reputation in the media, questioning the independence of the judiciary, encouraging political detainees' relatives to demonstrate, and owning illegal books.
Or In Saudi Arabia a Sri Lankan women faces decapitation for "casting a spell" on a 13 year old girl in a shopping mall.
What about the real problems of the world?
I hope you're fired. This twisted story should never have been aired. Absolutely disgusting. Don't you have any moral standards or has your overwhelming antisemitism just made it impossible for you to think clearly?
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by Pepto_Bismol April 27, 2012 3:22 AM EDT
I would like to congratulate Bob on a one-sided hit piece. Goebbels would have been proud. A masterful piece of propaganda. May G0d have mercy on your soul!
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by voice4justice April 27, 2012 12:04 AM EDT
Please sign the petition below from Jewish Voices of Peace. This petition has a goal of 20000 signatures. There is 14631 total signers.


Dear Supporters,

This week, something rare happened: A major U.S. media outlet actually showed the effects of the Israeli occupation on Palestinians.

But the candid reporting by "60 Minutes", America's most respected news program, has unleashed a furious response from Jewish and right-wing Christian groups.


Unless we push back now -- and thank "60 Minutes" -- real journalism like this will become even more rare. Can you sign our petition to thank "60 Minutes"?

Go here: http://www.ThankYou60Minutes.org

I'm sure you'll agree that now they need to hear from you and others who support their courageous and sadly all too accurate report about the Palestinian Christian exodus from cities like Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

Under Israeli occupation, Palestinians have endured decades of unlawful home demolitions, checkpoints, land confiscation, detentions without charges, and much more. That's primarily why Palestinians are leaving, and why Palestinian Christians issued a call to Christians in other lands to help create pressure on the Israeli government through divestment campaigns.

In response to this call, this week the United Methodist Church is considering a historic vote to begin phased divestment from companies that profit from the occupation. The "60 Minutes" segment, which you can watch on our petition page, explains clearly why church divestment is the right thing to do. The occupation dehumanizes Christians, Muslims and Jews.

Please, take a moment to sign the petition and share this link, http://www.ThankYou60Minutes.org, with your friends. Don't let "60 Minutes" back down. We need more fair and truthful reporting, not less.


Thank you,

Cecilie Surasky
Jewish Voice for Peace
http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
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by lynnvines April 26, 2012 1:21 PM EDT
Thank you CBS for an excellent piece on the situation for Christians in the Holy Land. Having spent close to two months in Israel and Palestine out of the last 12 months, I have been saddened and shocked that the world does not truly understand the plight of Palesstinian Christians.
I found your report to be fair and accurate. There is much more to this story but few want to hear it. I highly recommend that American Christians visit the Holy Land and experience the reality of life there.The peaceful presence of Palestinian Christians is greatly needed in Israel and Palestine.
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by eileenfleming4HOUSE April 26, 2012 8:11 AM EDT
There is a Jewish teaching that states: "Thou shall not derive personal pleasure or benefit from any product created through exploitation."

ALL the settlements are in fact colonies and ALL have been deemed illegal under international law for ALL are built upon legally owned Palestinian property.

The settlements are also a symptom of the disease called occupation and they disregard Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention which prohibits the transfer of population to occupied territories-and the stealing of resources.

Shamrock Holding, owned by the Roy E. Disney family, is a shareholder of several companies making money on the Israeli occupation including Teva Naot, Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, and the Orad Group.

Their involvement ranges from Israeli industry in the illegal West Bank settlements, the use of natural resources from occupied Palestinian territory and technologies for controlling the Palestinian population at the checkpoints.

EDS, a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard, has developed and installed automatic biometric access control systems in the checkpoints in occupied Palestine.

The list goes on and on and the call for Boycott Divesting and Sanctioning Israel UNTIL The OCCUPATION of Palestine ENDS; is a call for conscience.

I am Eileen Fleming for US HOUSE and I approve of all of my messages.
http://wearewideawake.org
http://www.eileenfleming.org/
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by Mammalah April 25, 2012 9:23 PM EDT
It is not as if the Palestinian Muslims weren't beating, boycotting, harassing and sometimes murdering the Christians in their midst. They are. We regularly witness this in news reports and watch Palestinians Christians throw in the towel on their town particularly Bethlehem.
Shameful that show which did not even mention it. If the bombs and terrorism had not come from the West Bank there would be no wall. Every nation has to protect it's borders and it's citizens from attacks.
The Muslims of Palestine begged to be treated as terrorists because of the bus and market bombings which occurred regularly before the wall was built. They used to be welcomed as workers in Israel however all the violence aimed at Israel put a stop to that.
Did those sanctimonious Christians in the West Bank ever insist that the bombings and terrorism stop? Surely Jesus the Prince of Peace whom they venerate and who walked and lived as a Jew his entire life in the Holy Land would never have agreed to such violence.
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