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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
BDS loses in Europe and America
Israel boycott motions scrapped in 4 Spanish cities

[IsraelTimes] Reversals come amid an unprecedented judicial crackdown against resolutions supporting the BDS movement

Four Spanish municipalities dropped their former policy of support for boycotts of the Jewish state, following legal action by supporters of Israel.

Occurring amid an unprecedented judicial crackdown in Spain against the phenomenon, three of the four reversals last month came following court-issued injunctions that suspended municipal motions passed in support of a boycott, ACOM, a Madrid-based pro-Israel group, wrote in a statement last week. The fourth municipality, Sant Sadurnì d’Anoià, a town of 12,000 residents in Catalonia, voided its own motion in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement following ACOM’s threat to sue.

Two of the rulings came on May 31, when the 3rd and 4th Administrative Courts of Barcelona nullified the BDS policies of the Catalan cities of Sant Adria de Besòs and Sant Quirze del Vallès, respectively, which have a combined population of approximately 55,000.

Earlier last month, an administrative court in Oviedo ruled that a motion in support of the BDS movement passed in January by the City Council of Langreo in Spain’s north was discriminatory and must be scrapped.

Also in May, the Ministerio Fiscal, an advisory judicial authority charged with guaranteeing equality in the judiciary, recommended scrapping the BDS motion passed in the northern municipality of Gijon for declaring itself "a space free of Israeli apartheid." The Ministerio, which is a constitutional court, cited anti-discrimination laws in its ruling on Gijon.

The anti-BDS rulings are a recent development in Spain, which has for many years been seen as a hub of anti-Israeli lobbying in Europe.

In parallel to these rulings, motions proposing to adopt BDS policies have failed in five Spanish municipalities in recent months. Another three municipalities nonetheless passed BDS motions -- ACOM has vowed to defeat them in court.

Spain’s government has repeatedly expressed its opposition to BDS, which is illegal in neighboring La Belle France because it is deemed discriminatory. Britannia’s ruling party is formulating similar legislation, officials said earlier this year.

Spain has recently taken actions that angered BDS promoters, including a January offer of $107,000 in compensation for damages caused to an Israeli West Bank university due to its exclusion from a scientific competition for political reasons.

Unlike the parliaments of Britannia, La Belle France and other European countries, which have pledged unconditional support for Paleostinian statehood, Spain’s Congress in 2014 passed a nonbinding motion saying it would only support a Paleostinian state reached by a peace agreement through talks with Israel ‐ language that was hailed as a diplomatic victory for Israel and its supporters.

American Anthropological Association rejects Israel boycott

[IsraelTimes] By a narrow margin, the American Anthropological Association votes against a measure to boycott Israeli academia.

Participation in the vote is the largest in AAA history, according to its website, encompassing 51 percent of its members, 2,423 of whom oppose the bid and 2,384 of whom support it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I came across this in The Times of Israel, written shortly before the American Anthropological Association vote, which I find heartening:

Despite important differences in outlook and methods, these organizations – the Academic Engagement Network and the Academic Council for Israel, as examples — have made important progress mobilizing faculty against BDS. The evidence is in successful faculty letter writing and mobilization campaigns on several campuses in response to BDS campaigns in 2015-16, including Minnesota, Columbia, and University of Michigan-Dearborn, a large petition drive opposed to BDS with 1,100 signatures and growing, and hopefully a close victory or close contest in the current vote on boycott in the American Anthropological Association.

BDS gives off the impression that it is everywhere on the rise and winning. But it is not. During the past two years, according to statistics developed by the Israel on Campus Coalition, BDS has mounted 77 campaigns on American campuses, 44 in 2014-15 after the Gaza War, and 33, down 25%, in 2015-16. The fact is that BDS loses as much as or more than it wins. Of 33 campaigns during 2015-2016, 17 failed outright, or the resolutions were tabled or not put up to a vote. The year before, of 44 campaigns, 32 failed outright, or were tabled or did not come to fruition.

In the past two years, with 77 total tries, that is, BDS won only 22 outright successes. This is not an stellar batting average. And these successes resulted in no tangible changes in respective institutional policies. None whatsoever. No boycott, no divestment. BDS is primarily about symbolic politics and radical gestures, and about skillful manipulation of the media. BDS’s real purpose is to cumulatively infiltrate a politically loaded teaching onto campuses about Israel and the Middle East, and to make of Israel a pariah state in the minds of members of the current student generation and future leaders; it is not to impact institutional policies.

BDS is also being confronted in the faculty associations, where the tide may perhaps be turning. After successes in the American Studies Association, Women’s Studies Association, and several smaller ethnic studies associations, BDS initiatives have encountered significant opposition this year in the Modern Language Association, American Historical Association, International Studies Association, the Association of American Geographers, and others. Even in the American Anthropological Association, where BDS views are particularly strong, we expect a close membership vote on the matter of boycott.

Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2016 14:44 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/09/2016 15:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Sensei!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/09/2016 15:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Perfect, #2 B.

Only thing I would add is a bag of fertilizer nearby.
Posted by: Barbara || 06/09/2016 16:35 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Soddies hand over 52 Houthi child prisoners
[Saudi Gazette] The Saudi-led Arab Coalition Command said on Tuesday that it has handed over 52 children to the legitimate government in Yemen after they were caught fighting with the Houthi militias along the border with Saudi Arabia . The children were captured while planting land mines, the coalition said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency.

The process of repatriation was coordinated with international organizations including the Red Cross and UNICEF, the statement said. They were arrested during military operations on the border while the children, carrying weapons, were involved in mine-laying operations, the command said.

“Appropriate actions have been taken by transferring them to shelters, according to their legal age, and the application of preventive measures to protect children and provide them with the appropriate conditions. The involvement of children in the bloody events and minefields is considered as an inhuman act and is contrary to all international norms and laws,” the statement added.

On his part, Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek Al-Mekhlafi, who heads the legitimate government’s peace negotiating team, said the children were aged between 8 and 17 years and their release showed the government and its Saudi-led Coalition ally reject the Houthi crime of using children in war.

“They (child prisoners) will be freed in addition to those who had been freed in Marib,” Mekhlafi said on his Twitter account.
Posted by: badanov || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Saudis: 24 US gunships by month-end
[Iran Press TV] Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
’s remaining on the UN’s violators of children rights blacklist would have jeopardized the delivery of 24 US AH-6i Little Bird attack helicopters to Riyadh.

On Wednesday, American multinational corporation Boeing announced that it would start delivering the choppers, being built at a production plant in Mesa, Arizona, to Riyadh by the end of the month.

The AH-6is are capable of being armed with Hellfire missiles, rocket launchers, miniguns, and machine guns.

Boeing was given the $234-million military contract in August 2014 by the US army.

The delivery of the attack copters was thrown into uncertainty last week as the UN released the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) report which said the Saudi coalition was responsible for 60 percent of child casualties in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
last year, when it killed 510 children and injured 667 others.
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Use them in good health(sic).
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2016 15:00 Comments || Top||

#2  One could have the best ship in the world, but without a well train crew its only a high priced bit of unearned pride. As the Argentine's found out with the Bienticinco Demayo (sp?) when you put all your pride in one warship (or even a couple) you don't dare have it leave harbor lest it be sunk.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/09/2016 18:03 Comments || Top||


Yemen breakthrough in Kuwait talks
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Significant progress has been made in the Kuwait talks surrounding Yemen’s military and security arrangements, including arrangements on how to secure the war-torn country’s capital, a government source has said following meetings with the UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed.

The unnamed source added that there were now "understandings" for the discussion of details surrounding the formation of a government, following the completion of arrangements for military withdrawals.

The source said the discussions between the government delegation and the UN envoy addressed the abolition of the constitutional declaration announced by the militias, and its administrative repercussions, as well as the restoration of state institutions. They also addressed the removal of all obstacles detracting from the work of the government, following the withdrawal from the cities in accordance to plans put forward by the UN envoy.

The first designated regions to be included in the withdrawal plans are the capital Sana'a and the governorates of Amran, Hodeidah. But there are further discussions taking place over adding two other regions for the withdrawal of militias.

Sources said they were expecting the UN envoy would present his comprehensive plan, drawn up with ambassadors of the Security Council, to both sides involved in the conflict within the coming days.

Sources have said Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
has achieved a breakthrough in the ongoing Kuwait talks, agreeing on the formation of a transitional government, but have failed to reach an agreement on the date for this body to be formed.

The legitimate government representatives have suggested that the military committee finish its task of overseeing the militia withdrawal from cities and collecting weapons.
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Bangladesh
Hasina warns militants of consequences
[Dhaka Tribune] In the wake of outrage over the murder of a police officer's wife, Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
has warned that the family members of bully boyz may also be affected for perpetrating secret killings, particularly those killing the family members of police officials.

In response to a query placed in parliament yesterday, Hasina urged the family members of the killers to prevent them from carrying out such attacks.

"Those who are now attacking the family members [of coppers] should not forget that they also have families, parents, siblings and wives. If such attacks continue, they [family members of myrmidons] can also be affected by their actions."

The premier issued the warning a day after four alleged members of an outlawed myrmidon outfit were killed in "shootouts" with the law enforcers in the last two days and in the backdrop of a string of assassination'>assassination
s, especially those of non-Moslem and non-Sunni people.

On Sunday, Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of newly-promoted Superintendent of Police Babul Akter, was stabbed and rubbed out by bike-riding assailants in the port city of Chittagong. Babul is a popular officer lauded for his strong
lead to uproot militancy in the region.

Replying to a query of a ruling party politician, Hasina said that all the secret killings were conducted in a similar manner. "They [militants] were killing people in mosques, temples, pagodas, and teachers of universities; and now they have killed a family member of a police officer."

She assured that exemplary punishment would be ensured for the culprits.

Pointing at the opposition parties, the premier alleged that those who had killed and burnt people in 2013 and 2014 "have taken the path of ’secret killings’ after they failed to foil the last national elections."
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Kazakh president says deadly attacks organized 'from abroad'
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev
...has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Or maybe it's the other way around...
said Wednesday that the perpetrators of deadly attacks in a city in the country's oil belt were acting on instructions "from abroad."

Gunmen went on the rampage in the northwestern city of Aktobe near the Russian border on Sunday, killing three civilians at two gun stores before trying to storm a military base with a hijacked bus, killing three soldiers.

In a statement on the violence Nazarbayev called the attackers "followers of radical pseudo-religious groups" adding that the gunnies had operated on "instructions received from abroad."

Nazarbayev also appeared to make a link between recent rallies protesting the government’s proposed land policy changes and the attacks that have led to heightened security measures across the vast country.

Thirteen suspects have been killed in police anti-terror raids since the attacks.

"We all know that the so-called "color revolutions" have different methods and begin with contrived rallies, murder, and attempts to seize power," Nazarbayev said in a statement published on the presidential website.

"These symptoms have also manifested themselves in our country," the 75-year-old autocrat added, noting that Thursday would be a day of national mourning in respect of the victims of the attacks.

Earlier on Wednesday, he held a televised meeting with the KNB National Security Committee chief in which he demanded that "every last criminal must be apprehended. In the case of armed resistance, killed."

"All of them should (receive) the strictest punishment," Nazarbayev ordered KNB head Vladimir Zhumakanov.

Zhumakanov informed Nazarbayev of reports gunnies had opened fire on guards at a children’s summer camp in Aktobe Wednesday, a report swiftly denied by police.

The country’s information minister, Dauren Abayev later moved to dismiss the incident, saying the "sounds (created by) a faulty automobile" had been mistaken for gunfire.

Police said Wednesday they had detained one more suspect in the weekend attacks and that six suspects were still on the loose. For much of its independence Kazakhstan was able to avoid the kind of political tumult seen in other countries in ex-Soviet Central Asia.
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Spanish police arrest Moroccan man accused of recruiting for ISIS
[Ynet] Spanish police locked away
You have the right to remain silent...
a Moroccan man in Valencia on Tuesday accused of recruiting for ISIS and promoting the holy warrior group on social media, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The man had been communicating with a large number of ISIS holy warriors, some of them well-known individuals operating in conflict zones in Syria and Iraq, the ministry said.

Including Tuesday's arrest, Spain has detained 25 people so far this year with suspected links to Islamist militancy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Ukraine Arrest: French Officials See Arms Smuggling, not Terrorism
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the suspect was stopped at the Polish border with rocket launchers, Kalashnikov assault rifles and explosives

"I didn't know they were in the truck! Somebody just hired me to drive it!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2016 15:03 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Erdogan lifts lawmakers’ immunity
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s president has approved amendments to the constitution that pave the way for the trials of some 138 politicians, including several pro-Kurdish politicians who face terror-related charges.

The state-run Anadolu Agency said Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
on Tuesday ratified the changes which were put forward by the ruling party and finally approved by parliament last month after heated debates that devolved into outright fights.

The changes have been criticized by officials in the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and Germany and condemned by Turkish opposition politicians. Lasts week, Turkey’s highest court rejected a petition by opposition politicians to strike down the legislation.

Erdogan has accused the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, of being an arm of the outlawed Kurdish PKK rebel group.

The parliamentarians at risk of prosecution fall roughly into three categories: those who are accused of insulting the president, and those under investigation for corruption or other criminal offenses, and those who like HDP members are accused of supporting the PKK.

The Turkish state has been locked in renewed conflict with Kurdish fighters since last summer when a 2 ½-year truce with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, collapsed. Kurdish rebels have set up trenches, barricades and explosives to keep the authorities out of areas where they want autonomy.

The HDP, which backs Kurdish and other minority rights, denies accusations that it is the political front of the PKK. The party has urged the government to end security operations in the southeast and to resume peace efforts.

Turkey and its Western allies consider the PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state, a terrorist group.
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Why am I thinking that ex-post-facto doesn't hold much sway in Turkey?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/09/2016 12:25 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq’s Shia Militias Accused of Atrocities
The stalled battle to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah from ISIS has given way to another grim development: accusations of human rights abuses against fleeing refugees by pro-Iraqi government forces.

The largely Shia militia group officially known as Hashd al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), headed by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a U.S.-designated terrorist has, according to the United Nations, committed atrocities against Sunnis in two newly liberated areas of Saqlawiyah and Al-Karmah, are just kilometers from Fallujah city.

Two sources in Saqlawiyah, who asked to remain anonymous due to fear of their lives, have told The Daily Beast that hundreds of civilian residents of Saqlawiyah and Karma have been heavily tortured by the PMF. Five dead bodies have been uncovered, but there are an additional 200 to 300 civilians that have been taken by the PMF; their fates are unknown.

Sheikh Raad Salman, of the Anbar-based Sunni Dulaim tribe, one of Iraq’s largest, told The Daily Beast that the “300 civilians have been buried alive” by the PMF and “700 more people have been severely tortured.”

Some say number of the victims is much higher. Hamid Mutlag, a Sunni MP and deputy head of defense committee in the parliament, told The Daily Beast “more than 800 residents of a village in Saqlawiyah have been taken by the Hashd al-Shaabi and there are others that have been killed and tortured.”

Atrocities in Fallujah have been expected as PMF leaders have been threatening to “cut the head of the snake” and accusing residents of having been cooperative with the Islamic State.

Saadoon al-Shalan, the mayor of Fallujah, said that Shia militias have sustained “huge losses” in the battle against ISIS and have lashed out at fleeing civilians. But the PMF leadership has nevertheless given “reassurances that they will not enter Fallujah and remain in the periphery.”

Reassurances are not enough in Iraq. Sectarian hatred is now so entrenched in light of the fact that the militias leading the operations in Saqlawiyah and Karma are the Badr Organization, Kata'ib Hezbollah (or the Brigades of the Party of God) and Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq the (League of the Righteous). All are directly backed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and are notorious among the Sunni minority population for carrying out extrajudicial killings, torture and ethnic cleansing.

One source, who also asked to remain anonymous, has told The Daily Beast that the PMF are, in fact, planning to infiltrate into Fallujah city in the uniforms belonging to Iraqi Federal Police, a state security arm under the purview of the Interior Ministry, which is controlled by the Badr Organization.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


ISIS uses food to recruit cannon fodder
GARMA, Iraq: Iraqis who fled Daesh-held Fallujah as government and allied forces advanced on the city said they had survived on stale dates and the terrorists were using food to enlist fighters whose relatives were going hungry.

The extremists have kept a close guard on food storage in the besieged city near Baghdad that they captured in January 2014, six months before they declared a caliphate across large parts of Iraq and Syria.

The terrorists visited families regularly after food ran short with offers of supplies for those who enlisted, said 23-year-old Hanaa Mahdi Fayadh from Sijir on the northeastern outskirts of Falluja.

“They told our neighbor they would give him a sack of flour if his son joined them; he refused and when they had gone, he fled with his family,” she said.

“We left because there was no food or wood to make fires, besides, the shelling was very close to our house.”

She and others interviewed in a school transformed into a refugee center in Garma, a town under government control east of Fallujah, said they had no money to buy food from the group. The Iraqi government stopped paying the salaries of employees there and in other cities under Daesh control a year ago to stop the group seizing the funds.

Fayadh escaped Sijir on May 27, four days after the government offensive on Fallujah. Of the 1,500 displaced people who found refuge in the school in Garma were women and children, because the army takes men for screening over possible ties with Daesh.
Posted by: badanov || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Assad’s vow to reconquer Syria ‘discouraging’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States said Tuesday that Bashir al-Assad’s vow to recapture "every inch" of Syria was discouraging and urged Russia and Iran to pressure their ally into respecting a ceasefire.

The Syrian leader made the threat in his first address to a newly-installed parliament in Damascus, calling into question his commitment to a UN-led grinding of the peace processor and a truce between government and opposition forces.

"We have no choice but victory," he said, to applause from a parliament elected under civil war conditions in a vote that Washington and Assad’s other international critics have not recognized as legitimate.

US State Department front man Mark Toner said the belligerent speech was unsurprising and dubbed it "vintage Assad," adding that Washington would call on Russia, its co-chair of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), to restrain its ally.
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Ceasefires only work when they go against US interests.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/09/2016 11:03 Comments || Top||



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