Iran Is About to Conduct a Nuclear test

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August 17, 2023

According to a terrifying story in the Jerusalem Post that cites numerous European security agencies, the Iranian terror regime may be perilously close to conducting a nuclear bomb test.

Its biggest supporter appears to be the Biden administration, which has openly let Iran develop nuclear weapons while employing delay strategies in the name of continued “negotiations”.

The Post reported that the regime “has sought to obtain illicit technology for its active atomic weapons program, according to a series of shocking European intelligence reports released in 2023.”

The report also claims that Iran has consistently broken the Obama nuclear deal.

Based on research from the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published translations of the materials on its website.

The rapid creation of weapons-grade uranium in Iran, according to the Netherlands General and Intelligence Security Service (AVID), “brings the option of a possible Iranian first nuclear test closer.

That report states, “Iran advanced its nuclear program last year. The nation keeps building up its inventories of 20% and 60% enriched uranium. This can be used to further enrich the uranium to the 90% enriched level required for a nuclear bomb using centrifuges.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreements were made, according to the AVID assessment, but Iran continues to disregard them.

Additionally, it is improving its capability for enrichment by utilizing uranium enrichment centrifuges of ever-growing sophistication.

An authority on Iran, Israeli Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser, told the Washington Post that “Iran is evidently committed to its nuclear weapons plan.

“The European intelligence reports describe covert Iranian efforts to reduce the breakout time of a nuclear arsenal by acquiring it illegally from various European countries,” Kuperwasser stated.

He said that the stories might be exaggerating the situation. “The reports only reveal a portion of Iran’s activities in Europe, and it is prudent to presume that the majority of those activities have remained covert.

Since European and US actions against Iran have been sluggish and uninspiring, Iran is likely to see Western policies towards it as a show of weakness. According to him, the US’s efforts to strike a nuclear agreement with Iran are “rewarding Iran with a new ‘understanding’ and would only incentivize Iran to continue and intensify its efforts to secure the necessary nuclear weapons components.

5 Ways the U.S. Hostage Swap Will Strengthen the Islamic Republic of Iran

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August 14, 2023

1. Emboldens the Regime

While there’s much to celebrate about the release of Americans that were imprisoned in Iran, the United States unfreezing billions of dollars of Iran assets emboldens the regime to repeat their hostage diplomacy scheme. Since the very foundation of the Islamic Republic in 1979, the Islamist supporters in Iran, Lebanon, and other parts of the world have been able to make demands of the U.S. and other western countries by kidnapping government officials and civilians. Despite international condemnation against kidnapping citizens, Iran continues to be emboldened and incentivized in their kidnapping diplomacy, facing no credible consequences and even gaining rewards. While the Biden administration may claim that the U.S. is providing relief to the people in Tehran, the fact is that much of the funds will go to strengthen the Ayatollahs and allow the Islamic government to continue its campaign of repression against Iranian citizens and sponsor terrorism abroad.

2. Worries Allies

As the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to fund Islamic-terrorist groups in the Middle East, the latest hostage transfer for funds has allies in the region worrying. Following the hostage transfer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu sounded off on the exchange, stating that the latest actions “do not dismantle Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, will not stop its nuclear program, and will only provide it with funds that will go to terrorist elements sponsored by Iran.” Israel’s Prime Minister and other experts see the funds going to groups like Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, using the money to train more terrorist fighters, purchase lethal arms against Israel, and lead to more rocket attacks against Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. In the Persian Gulf, terrorist groups like the Houthis in Yemen and other proxies will have the means to continue launching attacks.

3. Strengthens Terror Proxies

The exchange will strengthen the terrorist entities supported by Tehran, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), its own paramilitary branch. Observers of the latest hostage transfer for funds note that the administration’s latest actions are akin to when then-Secretary of State John Kerry, under the Obama administration, acknowledged that the billions of dollars in sanctions relief to Iran would go to some terrorist groups. Despite promising to use the funds for the Iranian people, the regime in Tehran has had a history of lying to the international community about its true intentions, transferring vast amounts of funds from its domestic and international coffers to use for terrorism against America, the West, Israel, and Arab monarchies. In the past few months, terrorist proxies like Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis in Yemen, and Iranian-backed Iraqi groups have been able to receive weapons from the regime to sow chaos, and now thanks to billions in unfrozen assets, such groups will be able to have more financial resources than ever before.

4. Provide Relief to the Regime

With the Ayatollahs receiving around $6 billion (about $18 per person in the U.S.) in sanctions relief from the U.S., many Iranian experts say such funds will assist the mullahs and their cronies. Following the major protests in Iran, ranging from the 2009 Green Revolution to the ongoing revolution which began in September following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the Islamic Republic’s morality police over her hijab wear, the Islamic Republic has relied on its security forces to crush these movements. As a result of the Biden administration’s latest actions, the Islamic Republic will now have financial resources to continue to provide plainclothes, proxies, and supporters to crackdown on dissidents, target women who defy Islamic law, and purchase more military equipment to defend against any potential strikes. According to Iranian experts, the unfrozen assets will also most likely help the regime in its nuclear program, providing Tehran with the financial resources to possibly build more underground centrifuges, purchase material for atomic enrichment, and strengthen the security of its nuclear program. Subsequently, family and friends closely associated with the Ayatollahs will also gain a significant financial boost, given that they will most likely be able to transfer such funds overseas and secure their financial safety net.

5. Diminishes American Strength

In the past few months, America’s presence on the global stage has been devastating following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s brokering peace agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and international economic turmoil. While the Biden administration continues to tell Americans that the country is strong and secure against foreign threats, the latest hostage transfer suggests that the administration is kowtowing to enemies, displaying weakness. From Republican to Democrat administrations, Iran and other threats have been able to diminish America’s strength through hostage diplomacy and terrorist attacks, devastating the lives of military and civilian personnel at home and abroad. At a time when China, Russia, and Iran are consolidating their strength and power against the US, the latest actions are a boost to the rising axis that sees itself expanding in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Boat trip aimed at saving Dead Sea also explores marvels revealed by its evaporation

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August 11, 2023

As the owner of the second boat to sail the Dead Sea in the past 75 years, Noam Bedein knows its salty waters better than almost anyone. But lately, his excursions have led him to discover sites neither he nor anyone else has ever seen.

A few days before World Water Day in late March, Bedein came upon a bubbling brook feeding into the sea, which he named the Jerusalem River. The stream, the animals surrounding it and the beach it flows through were submerged underwater as recently as the mid-2000s. Bedein and his partner, Ari Fruchter, believe they are the first people ever to set foot there.

It’s an experience Bedein keeps having, and for him, it’s a paradoxical one: His mission is to save the Dead Sea. But as it dries up, it reveals new wonders to him.

“Out of the devastation, life finds a way,” Bedein told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency during one of his boat’s first excursions.

Bedein is the latest activist to confront a problem that has bedeviled Israel — how to save this ecological marvel and tourist attraction that is being depleted by water scarcity, industry and climate change. Bedein’s approach with his and Fruchter’s nonprofit, the Dead Sea Revival Project, is to raise awareness about the disappearing Dead Sea by bringing people to see it for themselves.

Bedein’s immersive boat tours provide visitors “with an intimate encounter that fosters deep connection and understanding” about the Dead Sea, he told JTA.

Bordered by Israel and the West Bank on the west and Jordan on the east, it is the deepest point on earth, has almost 10 times as much salinity as the ocean and is renowned for its therapeutic mud. In 2019, according to records from the Israeli Tourism Ministry, it was the country’s third-most visited site, after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, drawing a million tourists per year, reported Israeli business publication The Marker.

The Dead Sea is also an economic engine for Israel — something that, ironically, is a threat to the sea’s continued existence. A market research report published last year found that the Dead Sea mud cosmetics market is slated to be worth $2.6 billion by 2031. The chemical factories producing the cosmetics, which extract potash and bromine from the area, are found in both Israel and Jordan, and pump some 61.3 billion gallons of seawater per year in total as of 2018, according to NBC.

That extraction, plus a reduction in the inflow of water from the Jordan River, has led the Dead Sea to dry up in recent decades. A 2022 Israeli government report said that since 1980, the sea has lost some 40% of its volume and is retreating by more than three feet per year. According to Bedein, the Dead Sea’s water loss amounts to as much as 600 Olympic pools every day.

The southern basin of the Dead Sea, which is called Ein Bokek and is lined with hotels, has been disconnected from the northern part. Today, the “sea” at Ein Bokek is actually comprised of 12-foot-deep evaporation pools that are entirely artificial. According to Bedein, most tourists at the hotels are unaware that they are not actually at the Dead Sea.

“However you look at it, there isn’t a magic pill to fix this, and that’s the reason nothing’s been done so far,” Nadav Lensky, head of the Dead Sea Observatory at the Geological Survey of Israel, told JTA. “Every solution that is put forward comes with problems of its own.”

Hailing from the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, Bedein, 41, worked in Israel advocacy in the Gaza border town of Sderot before shifting his focus to the Dead Sea. He is an environmental photojournalist by training who has now trained his lens on this body of water, hoping to show people what it actually looks like — and the ecological damage that is caused — when a large saltwater lake disappears.

The Dead Sea has lost 40% of its volume in recent decades. (Noam Bedein via JTA)

To do that, he convinced the Israeli government to allow him to sail a boat on the Dead Sea, a quest that involved more than a year of overcoming bureaucratic hurdles. It is only the second boat to take to the water since Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. The boat, which holds up to 13 passengers, makes up to three trips a day, three times a week, but as of September, its operations will be expanded to five days a week. In total, Bedein says he has hosted between 400 and 500 people on private excursions.

Bedein is acutely aware that the end goal of saving the Dead Sea is “way above my personal shoulders,” but, he said, that knowledge does not detract from his mission.

“The journey is fascinating and motivating for me,” he said.

The boat’s two-hour journey is filled with wonders. On a recent outing, the blinding white salt formations look like glaciers or the snow formations known as penitentes, and clash with the backdrop of the Judean Desert’s brutal reddish rock. Graduated terraces hewn out of the cliff look manmade, but each three-foot-high step represents another summer in which the waters of the Dead Sea have evaporated.

A salt cavern perched on a rock several meters above sea level elicits a gasp from Bedein. He has not been to the area in at least three years. Rifling through a wad of photographs, Bedein shows the passengers on the boat a photo of the same cavern from 2016, its mouth at sea level. He snaps a shot of the newly elevated cavern. The side-by-side images went on display as part of a timelapse photo exhibition marking this year’s Earth Day at the Cultural Center in Arad, a city 17 miles west of the Dead Sea.

“You can feel the density of the water lugging at the boat and the bitter, sticky spray on your face and lips,” said Naomi Verber, who was on board with her baby. “The salt rock formations are otherworldly, like seeing the transition between sea and land in suspended animation.”

(Bedein claimed that Verber’s child was “the first infant to sail the Dead Sea in at least 100 years.” Whether that is true is unclear. Orit Engelberg-Baram, an environmental historian who wrote her doctoral dissertation on the Dead Sea, told JTA that a baby may well have sailed its waters during the evacuation of Kibbutz Beit Ha’arava, located in what is now the West Bank, during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948.)

Fruchter, meanwhile, is spearheading an effort to promote awareness about the ecological crisis of the Dead Sea by raising money to build the Dead Sea Museum of Art on a five-and-a-half-acre parcel of land in Arad. The museum, which hopes to attract half a million tourists a year once it is constructed, will combine exhibits on climate tech innovation and multimedia art installations in a carbon neutral building to both educate people about the sea and, in a grim but possible future, memorialize it.

While the industrial activity surrounding the sea often gets blamed for its depletion, Bedein says it isn’t the main culprit. He estimates that the chemical plants contribute 30% of the problem, while the other 70% is due to the reduction of the source of the water in the Jordan River.

According to Lensky, 60 years ago, a billion cubic meters of water flowed from the Jordan River into the Dead Sea. Today, less than 10% of that amount reaches it, partly because of the construction of dams around the Yarmouk River — which flows between Israel, Jordan and Syria — and partly because Jordan, one of the driest countries in the world, cannot afford to both provide water to its population and regenerate the Dead Sea. Jordan, Syria and Israel all draw water from the Sea of Galilee basin that would otherwise be flowing into the Dead Sea.

The chemical plants, Bedein said, also draw attention to the Dead Sea, which he sees as a positive.

The receding waters of the Dead Sea have revealed new rock formations. (Noam Bedein via JTA)

“It’s not about how much water is being pumped out of the Dead Sea, it’s about how much water is coming in,” he said. “It’s very reductive to blame the factories. If you close down all the factories tomorrow, there goes the entire industry in Ein Bokek, and you will have reduced awareness even more.”

The key to saving the Dead Sea, researchers say, is to bring freshwater back into it, or what Bedein terms as “restoring its historical flow.” According to Lensky, bringing freshwater back into the Dead Sea is easier said than done.

“We have no freshwater in the region and if we wanted to create some, it would come at a high price, environmentally and economically speaking,” he said.

Several projects – planned within the Israeli government and between countries – to mitigate the Dead Sea’s evaporation have been launched, including a proposed plan to construct a canal to replenish the Dead Sea with desalinated water from the Red Sea — called the Red-Dead Canal. That plan, like others, has attracted its fair share of controversy, in part because of the environmental risks it poses both to the Gulf of Aqaba and the Dead Sea itself.

Bedein is not optimistic about those initiatives. The last meeting of the Knesset committee on saving the Dead Sea, which Bedein attended, took place in 2017. The five rounds of elections Israel has held since 2019, he said, haven’t helped. “The government changes every year or two, this isn’t a priority and there’s simply no one to speak to,” he said.

In the meantime, Bedein will keep taking passengers out on his boat, and will keep marveling at the new features that come to light as the sea level dips lower.

“We have the opportunity to explore uncovered landscapes for the first time,” he said. “It’s inspiring.”

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Self-flagellation

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August 11, 2023

Surprising as it may seem, this ancient form of afflicting the body is still practised among various groups these days.

Roman Catholic devotees, especially in places like the Philippines and elsewhere, continue to indulge in this ritual, particularly at Easter time.

It is also widely practised by Hindus in India, among other places.

Shia Muslims beat themselves with swords during the Festival of Tatbir.

Among Jews, this sort of extreme physical mutilation is nowadays non-existent and lingers in mainly a symbolic form among some on Yom Kippur eve.

However, there is another form of self-flagellation that seems to be endemic and very much alive in our time. It seems to be a particularly potent affliction, especially in Jewish communities and, of course, in the Jewish State.

It takes the form of blaming oneself for each and every situation, which in turn results in no less damage and incapacity than the physical variety.

A common myth that, however, has some element of truth to it is that Jews are more guilt-driven than any other people on the planet. Perhaps that is why the disciplines of psychology and psychiatry have attracted so many Jews over the years.

Past and recent events seem to point to a definite trait that afflicts large swathes of Israeli and Diaspora Jews. Plainly spelt out, it is the uncanny and unhealthy phenomenon of feeling guilty for each and every event where Jews are targeted.

When bad things happen, there are those who inevitably conclude that the events must have been precipitated by some heinous act carried out by the victims themselves. This knee-jerk guilt-by-association syndrome has now become endemic among some sectors. It leads to a completely distorted perspective as to the real motives behind each and every incident of hate and incitement.

Excusing the perpetrators because of a perceived provocation by the victims is the default argument trotted out by the legions of the woke left and their myriad politically-correct followers. They have one thing in common, and that is an uncontrollable urge to pillory Israel.

Ongoing recent incidents should help to explain how self-flagellation has established itself as a seemingly acceptable reaction.

Some opinion pieces in post-Zionist and leftist media outlets assert that “because Israel is built on the idea of Jewish supremacy over the indigenous Palestinians”, there can be no mystery as to why they embark on a murderous spree of mayhem. This totally warped and fallacious reasoning is also endorsed by the leader of the ultra-left Meretz Party and its associated gaggle of lemmings. No amount of reality can shake them from their dogmatic tunnel vision whereby the State was born in original sin and continues to perpetuate this sin by actually surviving endless waves of terror.

Presumably, the only way to be absolved is to confess and be prepared to suffer the consequences. This means disappearing as the nation-state of the Jewish People and embracing the paradise of some sort of mythical Garden of Eden where Jihadists will live in perfect harmony with “the descendants of pigs and apes”, as Jews are described.

An IDF spokesperson has blamed “settler terror against Palestinians” as the logical reason for the rise in Palestinian acts of violence. He went on to assert that “as soon as settler violence is eliminated there will be less Palestinian terror.”

While one cannot condone Jews taking unlawful action against anyone, a few questions need to be asked.

Is Arab terror against Jews something new and of recent origin?

Anyone with even a smattering of historical knowledge should be fully aware that this terror jihad has been ongoing since at least the 1920s. Its lethal consequences have left a trail of murdered Jews and bereaved Jewish families in its wake ever since Islamic mobs massacred Hebron’s ancient community in 1929. Claiming that the Temple Mount is being invaded is not something new and has been used as an excuse for pogroms in the distant past. Terror groups incited their followers this recent Tisha B’Av to carry out a pogrom against Jews praying at the Kotel.

For how long are Jews expected to be willing sacrifices? Once, we were powerless to either defend ourselves or retaliate. Is this the preferred status we are expected to adhere to in 2023?

As recent events have clearly demonstrated, Arab terror makes no distinction between religious chalutzim (settlers) and those who imagine themselves as politically correct secular residents of Tel Aviv.

Teenagers and even those younger are having their minds poisoned at summer camps and UNRWA schools. A fifteen-year-old proudly stated that “only martyrdom is fitting for the life of a Jihad fighter.” Abbas, the PA lifelong President, laid a wreath in honour of these martyrs, and his colleagues assert that Israel’s apprehension and elimination of these “martyrs” is a war crime.

Those dedicated to the demise of Israel and Israelis, based on their past track records, are hardly likely to throw in the towel if the victims of their nefarious agenda turn the other cheek. We tried that failed scenario with the fatal Oslo disaster, and only masochists would want to repeat that sort of flagellation again.

It is worth noting that Palestinian Arabs don’t even need Jews as an excuse to perpetrate violence. They are rampaging and murdering their own people quite successfully as it is. In fact, it has become so bad in Lebanon that some Arab countries are advising their citizens not to travel there.

Who needs to blame “settlers” when they are so busy eliminating each other?

Deciding whether to emigrate is a fundamental right for citizens living in a democratic country and Israel is no exception. Despite hysterical and unhinged claims by those currently causing chaos because they oppose the present coalition’s legislative agenda, the ability to leave Israel and seek a home elsewhere is not under threat. One can find Israelis in every conceivable country. In fact, one can hear Hebrew being spoken in some unlikely places around the globe.

The problem is that in an increasing number of countries speaking Ivrit in public is becoming a hazardous and even life-threatening exercise. Jews are being attacked and assaulted in Germany and other parts of Europe as well as in the USA and the UK. School children are threatened on public transport, and Jews wearing identifiable clothing and kippot are regularly targeted.

There are many reasons for emigrating, including educational opportunities, employment, economic advantages and alternative lifestyle experiences.

The current excuse is disillusionment with the direction that the country is taking. Instead of staying and using democratic means to change things, many are threatening to abandon the Zionist enterprise altogether. If you don’t have a strong faith-based reason for living in the land of our Patriarchs and Matriarchs, then seeking a life in the Galut is no big deal.

However, the grass is not always greener elsewhere.

Assimilation in the Diaspora is increasing, and detachment from any Israeli connection gathers pace with each succeeding generation.

The biggest irony is when those leaving maintain that they are doing so in order to live in a more democratic country and for personal safety reasons. I read an interview with a family who are shifting to the paradise of California. According to reports, businesses and locals are actually fleeing California because of rampant crime, drug epidemics, homeless problems and illegal immigrants. It is highly unlikely that their children will be able, as they do in Israel, to safely walk down the street to visit and socialize with their friends. In the USA, where the Supreme Court judges are appointed by politicians, democracy is also under threat.

At least in Israel, one has a choice of over forty political parties. In the USA, you have a choice of only two, neither of which necessarily inspires great confidence.

Self-flagellation knows no boundaries.

Unveiling Saudi Arabia’s Dual Face: Peace Gesture or War Funding?

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August 10, 2023

In a surprising turn of events, renowned Middle East journalist Tom Friedman, known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage, brought attention to a potential Saudi peace initiative in March 2002. While this revelation raised hopes of a breakthrough, it also contradicted Saudi Arabia’s longstanding anti-Israel stance within the Arab League. Friedman’s reportage offered a fresh perspective, especially amid the backdrop of ongoing violence and terror attacks in the region.

However, deeper examination of the Arabic version of the Saudi initiative revealed a more complex picture. Prof. Itamar Rabinovitch, an influential figure in the Israeli peace camp and a former Mossad official, shed light on the actual content of the refugee clause in the initiative. Rabinovitch’s analysis pointed out that the final draft explicitly demanded the “right of return,” negating the perceived flexibility that the initial statement held. This demand, rooted in UN Resolution 194, effectively calls for the return of Arab refugees from the 1948 war, backed by a staggering budget allocated for UNRWA refugee camps.

It’s crucial to note that 58% of UNRWA’s budget goes towards supporting an educational system that has been criticized for its failure to promote peace. A review of more than 1,000 UNRWA textbooks by David Bedein’s research agency unveiled a concerning lack of peaceful discourse.

Despite these revelations, Friedman’s credibility didn’t seem to wane. Instead, he returned with further misinformation, including silence regarding Saudi Arabia’s substantial funding of Palestinian education, particularly in relation to anti-Israel activities. Saudi-sponsored UNRWA summer camps, commemorating Arab martyrs who engaged in violence against Jews, have further fueled concerns about the intentions behind such support.

Bedein’s research agency even went a step further, dispatching TV cameras to capture UNRWA summer camps funded largely by Saudi Arabia. The resulting documentary, set to be screened at The Menachem Begin Center in Jerusalem on September 3rd, 2023, casts light on the murky undercurrents of Saudi funding for Palestinian education.

The revelation of Saudi Arabia’s dual face – one presenting a façade of peace while fueling anti-Israel activities – raises significant questions about the authenticity of potential peace initiatives. As debates continue, the ongoing support from entities like UNRWA and its implications for the region’s stability remain subjects of intense scrutiny.

The opinions and facts presented in this article / video are those of the author, and neither TheJ.Ca nor its partners assume any responsibility for them.

In loving Memory of Raoul Wallenberg

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August 10, 2023

Friends around the world:

From the Office of Mr. David Herman ( a British-Israelí writer, composer, musician, poet and novelist, and Intelligent Service Agent) has requested me to share with you the following transcript from 1987 to celebrate the life of Raoul Wallenberg.

David Herman, was also a member of the Committee to investigate the Disappearing of this Diplomatic during the second war. May his memory be a blessing!

I decided not to edit any paragraph in order to present the original transcript as it was from 1987.

Thank you for taking the time to read until the end.

TRANSCRIPT OF EXPONENTS OF ABSENT HEALING THERAPY CONTACT WITH RAOUL WALLENBERG ON APRIL 23, 1987

Before the actual session began, the two anonymous exponents, A and B, told me that they had already made contact with Raoul Wallenberg a few days earlier and had learned the following: He can’t pass urine. The lower spine and feet are inflamed and so are his knuckles. His mind is clear, but he is frightened of losing his mind. The atmosphere changes affect his body. He is very depressed. The location of his prison seems to be north-west of Sverdlovsk, a very small place ringed by mountains.

A: He is sitting there. Why is he sitting there? He knows about it that many people are going free. His sixth sense is very sharp. Because of his sixth sense he is surviving despite the climate but he hasn’t got space to move anymore. And more and more he becomes depressed the more there is pressure outside. I told him already two weeks ago and last week that we are trying from outside. The pressure he is getting now it’s not his own mind. His mind is fine. It’s we people from outside who don’t forget him and want to help him and to see that we can get him out. I would like very much that we can get him alive to Israel, but all because the people that went through his hands , that he saved, now live in Israel.

What is very interesting is that he is picking up what I’m saying now. He is picking up exactly what I am saying now. He is with us, his mind is with us but he can’t it very long, he also can’t stand it. and he has a lot of pain so I’m going to pray…

Is that the place where you’re sitting, the prison?

B: Something like West, North-West, a very small place lower than the area around it, between mountains but a low place.

A: How does it look from the inside? Are there a lot of prisons?

B: Yes, I got before long yellowish walls. I’m not sure whether there is daylight. He is very emotional. He can hardly swallow it. Tears are running down his eyes from emotion. You see, it’s the very first time we are really going to sit down and communicate. Not only giving in him..Raoul, can you hear me?

B. Look, I, now blue light and I directed it towards him.

A: Raoul, what else can you tell us about the place where you are over there? We are speaking now here from Jerusalem, really from Jerusalem..

Raoul, go on, go on. You can cry afterwards. Let them run! But it Is Jerusalem. Yes, so we’re trying to help you with all the energy of Heaven, the Holy City, from the Holy City. Please, now do try to help!

He’s trying..He’s ready, He’s here with us.

B: He is in a very bad situation because they had disconnected him form everything outside. They don’t pass him messages. He is completely disconnected . He has lost direction because there is a kind of movement he is making. He is happy that we have connected ith him, but he can’t..the Russians are conscious that people will try to reach him.

A: Raoul, how long have you been in prison, in that prison?

B: What I got…. close to 30 years.

A: In that same cell??

B: No, not quite. He has been transferred a couple of time..

A: Now, are you sitting by yourself, or is there somebody with you?

B: He is alone and he is being watched.

A: Yes, I got before, too, that he is alone.

D.H: David Herman: Can I ask some questions?

A: Yes..And if you want to ask questions. Raoul, we are ready to reply, right?

B: Wait, Raoul wants very much that we reach him. He just can’t tell us any channel. He doesn’t know where he is. He has been completely disconnected form the world, and he does say that he knows thing.

A: What was it? What was it? Try and communicate with us. In just one word or two. What was it you’ve seen that made you fall in their trap?

B: So far as I can see he was connected . He saw some wrongdoing of high officials and he was thinking of a way, I don’t want to say to “damask”, but to interfere and they just… And this again, a picture which is there.. he was taken by force and disconnected from other people, so that he cannot intervene any more, and these people were.. There is some heaviness around those who took him. I can’t demask what is in their mind. I just see that they are very stony, closed people doing something ugly..there is..

D.H: We tried our best for you, we sent petitions to all the embassies for you.

A: He knows.

DH: And about the new book..

A: His heart is hot.

B: I got now light. He is with us again. He gets oxygen.

A: We are getting you.

B: His head is clearing now.

A: Speak up, we are getting you very clear, Raoul. Try to remember, all right?

B: Look, can I make a movement? He is doing something like this He was trying to place something out. I think he was taking out some documents from hanger filers, and these were documents probably of the people he wanted to unmask, high officials who were doing wrong to others. He wanted to save somebody and the high officials caught him on this that he was taking. Perhaps he didn’t want to do it officially, but he wanted to point out, and after that I see such a strong clash. It’s the kind of people who will do anything to shut others down,

AB: Are you willing to reply to some questions, Raoul

B:Yes.

DH: Can you tell me how he looks today? Can you describe him?

B: He is very swollen, hos whole upper body. He hardly moves his fingers. His knees are better than they were, but they are terribly sore , especially he left one.

DH: Has he got teeth still?

B: Rotten, very rotten. He has thin hair, very short cut, balding.

DH: does he look older or younger than his years?

B: Looks older at present.

A: Breathe deeply, Raoul. Can you feel the warmth coming into you now?

B: Yes, and there is warmth coming up to his chest, especially the breast. He has got a swollen breast. His eyes are painful, swollen, red. Especially the left eye is pulling, and the right arm, and the right inner arm is very painful.

A: And he has very bad blood circulation in his feet. He can’t bend the leg.

B: And he has also difficulties in bending his back, He turns a little bit to the right. He can’t sit completely straight because of the pain he has in his spine.

DH: Cam you tell me what kind of room he is in?

A: How big is the room?

B: It is not small. It is not always the same place. Sometimes it seems something like 3 to 4 meters.

A: It is like here.

DH: And he’s by himself alone?

A: Alone, and he ‘s watched.

DH: Are there guards?

A: They are aware that people are trying to contact…

DH: Does he have contact with anybody especially?

B: No, no, no, no! The guards don’t want him to pass any information or connections because they are conscious of either the possibilities..

DH: So, did he send any message to his friends?

A: No.

DH: When was the last message he sent?

A: Four or five years ago. 15 years ago he sent a few letters out.

DH: Does he have a friend in Israel called Felix, who’s helping him?

A: Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes! Whay, I just got smarmoret!

DH: Does he know that Felix just wrote a book called “Raoul Wallenberg Is Alive” to help him?

A: He knows from us now that there is contact, He feels, but he doesn’t know what he feels. He was frightened that he was going to die. He felt something, but he knows nothing.

DH: How does he keep up his morale?

A: Very bad..

DH: But he believes that he will be free?

A: That is a small hope. Maybe because from here we are busy, and that is why he is smiling. But he doesn’t know how long his body can still continue.

DH: Does he want us to continue to help him?

A: Very much, oh sure he does, oh very much, very much!

DH: Does he know that we are doing everything to help him?

A: Yes, he knows, he knows it.

DH: What is his dearest wish?

A: To get away from here and to see the sun and to come here?

DH: To get away from there and to come here?

DH: Does he want to go to Sweden?

A: No, because they forgot him. For Sweden, he’s dead.

DH: And his family.

A: He’s dead, no family any more. His family is those he saved . They want to receive him.

DH: Why does he think that the Russians are keeping him?

A: They just somehow haven’t got the heart to destroy him.

DH: Why does he think they want to keep and not let him go?

A: Because of what we mentioned.

DH: Can I ask more questions?

A: Too many questions..

B: He can’t even listen…

A: He’s got so much pain in his breast. Please ask short questions. Give us time to answer. He got really in distress and very emotional.

B: We close our eyes to focus better, We aren’t in a trance.

A: All the lumbar is without strength, his sacrum is inflamed, the chest is constricted and the neck is stiff, the left hand is in pain…half of his face is..There is no better place to come than to Jerusalem.

A: Now, Raoul, can you feel a little better? We are again with you. Look up into the light of the Lord and you’ll get strength there. Raoul Wallenberg, what is the name of his mother?

DH: Maj von Dardel.

A: Raoul Wallenberg, son of Maj von Dardel…

B: Can’t you do something about his left hand?

A: Oh, the abcess..breathe deeply. He’s too cold because of the cold.

B: You must be in a place close to a river. The whole area is not properly warm. It is wet.

A: Please Raoul, look into the light…to the right..

B: Our blue light is reaching him, can you see?

A: Yes, direct it to the hands and specially to the heart area and the ear and the neck, to the chest and the heart. It’s better. Raoul, do not get emotional please, otherwise it hurts you. We’ll contact you again. Now that we found there are some more people.. so it’s better we give you energy to get better. You’re going to get better… Don’t cry, OK? This makes you weak.

A: The hand is feeling better. I’m trying to pull the fluid down, to direct it to the urine bladder. We’re going to direct some heat. It goes down.. It’s pulling down to the sacrum. His bottom is very cold but there is no pressure on his forehead. His eyes are clear, they are not so burning. Raoul, when you get tea, keep the tea leaves and put them between your lip and your gum where the abcess is, the swelling. This will do you good. Oh sugar..Terrible! …salt… Raoul, are you ready for more questions?

DH: Tell him that we shall do all in our power to free him this year.

A: He starts to cry again

DH: Did he send any messages to his friend in Israel recently?

A: He thinks about him.

DH: And what is his friend’s name?

A: What do you get? The name of his friend.

DH: If I say the name Felix does this mean something to him?

A: Yes, that he says straight away. Straight away gave him a lot of pleasure.

B: He doesn’t think he will live so long to be free.

DH: Has he any contact with his fellow prisoners in the camp?

A: None.

DH: Is he in a prison camp?

B: But he has no contact with anybody. He can’t see outside the window. He is closed up completely because it is cold.

DH: Does he remember any of these names? Trushnovich?

B: It cause him a bad feeling in the stomach.

DH: Another name –Yanini?

A: He is cold, He is not very happy about these names.

B: No, don’t mention them. It is not good for him.

DH: They were prisoners with him on Wrangel Island.

B: He isn ‘t able to think so far. He can’t, don’t.

DH: Does the name of Wrangel island mean anything?

A: He doesn’t want to think. It doesn’t matter any more . He doesn’t even believe he will get out of prison any more still alive. He says this year is still long. He thinks he will not live to get out.

DH: Does he have any message to his friend Felix?

B: Look, to think about this he needs a lot of energy and he hasn’t got energy. All he needs is to get healthy again.

DH: Does he want to send through you any message?

A: Not at present. His heart is painful. He think that every day he is going to finish.

DH: What name did they give him there?

A: They don’t give him a name at all. They don’t talk to him. They put his food and he is like an animal. He sleeps there and he lies there or he stands there. The food is cold.

DH: When did he move from his last prison to the new one?

A: One week ago. In the prison he moves often. They change him. There is a little corner where he keeps something like.. thinks he keeps something there. Once he was writing and keeping it where he sleeps in a little bag in the mattress. He tried, but that’s why he got so depressed because they deprived him also of those little things.

A: They went him very much to die quick…

DH: Is he happy that we are trying to help him?

B: Very. That is why he is so emotional. That’s why it makes him so weak now. He wants us to stop.

DH: But our efforts to help him should go on?

A: But quick because he thinks that this year he is already in the other world. He thinks he is going to die within a month.

DH: Tell him to keep strong till his birthday in August.

END OF TRANSCRIPT

ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO DAVID HERMAN

Potemkin propaganda

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From the Palestinians to Stalin to China, leftists still fall for the concealment of unspeakable crimes.

(JNS / Jewish Journal) us last month tried to persuade Massachusetts congressman Seth Moulton that China is not persecuting its Muslim Uyghur minority. They urged him to visit Uyghur regions “and see how happy people were there,” one of Moulton’s aides told The New York Times.

Two years ago, the U.S. State Department determined that the Chinese government is carrying out “ongoing genocide” against the Uyghurs, including slave labor, torture, forced sterilizations and the imprisonment of “more than one million civilians.”

If Rep. Moulton does visit China, government officials no doubt will carefully keep him from seeing the truth about the “reeducation” camps where Uyghurs are being held.

Hiding embarrassing sights from the view of foreign dignitaries is a tactic dictators have been using for centuries. Its pioneer was Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin, a Russian cabinet minister who reportedly built fake villages to impress the Czarina Catherine II during her visit to the Crimea region in 1787.

Some historians believe Potemkin merely redecorated towns along the czarina’s route, rather than fabricating them entirely for the sole purpose of the visit. Either way, Potemkin’s name has come to be associated with this particular kind of deceit.

Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was a master of Potemkinism. In the 1920s and 1930s, Western visitors to the USSR were taken to see Bolshevo, which was presented as an example of the Soviet Union’s “progressive” prisons without walls or guards, where criminals were educated and inspired to become productive citizens.

Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw went so far as to claim that the only problem in dealing with the typical Soviet prisoner was “inducing him to come out at all” when his jail term ended. In reality, Bolshevo had been created to impress foreigners. It was populated largely by informers whose reward was to live in the sham prison. The slave labor camps of the Soviet gulag remained hidden from foreign eyes.

Adolf Hitler used Potemkin-style deception to help camouflage the mass murder of the Jews. In June 1944, the Nazis invited a delegation from the International Red Cross to visit Theresienstadt, the Jewish ghetto they created in Czechoslovakia as a transit point for Jews being shipped to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. In the Nazi Potemkin version, the camp was presented as an Endlager, a final destination where Jewish prisoners lived happily.

One inmate wrote in his diary of the Nazis’ preparations for the Red Cross visit: “They rain down order after order. Kindergarten children are to sing during the visit, the workers are to return home. Plays and cultural events and sporting activities must take place. Even the few lambs left here roam about on the grass around the city. The children, the workers, the sheep—a perfect idyll.”

Another prisoner recalled: “A playground was laid out with sandboxes and swings, a ‘children’s pavilion’ was built and painted from inside with big wooden animals as toys. Behind a glass veranda you could see a dozen cribs. It was like a story book—but children were only allowed to enter this little paradise on the day the commission visited Theresienstadt.” Houses were freshly painted, but only those portions that the Red Cross inspectors would see as they walked by.

The delegation’s final report to Red Cross headquarters described conditions in the camp as “relatively good.” They never asked why the population of Theresienstadt at the time of the visit was 30,000 less than what the Red Cross knew it had been a few weeks earlier.

In the 1950s, the North Korean government built a village called Kijong-dong in the demilitarized zone separating North Korea from South Korea. To this day, the North Koreans call it a “peace village” and claim it is inhabited by two hundred families. In fact, Kjong-dong has no civilian residents. It houses soldiers, artillery and underground bunkers.

A Washington Post correspondent who visited the area in 1998 reported that “if you squint through your binoculars, you’ll see that the buildings [in Kjong-dong] don’t even have glass in the windows. It’s a lie, a huge Potemkin village.” The sidewalks are empty, and automatic timers turn lights on and off in the buildings in order to create the illusion that people reside there.

The Palestinian Authority has engaged in its own forms of Potemkin-style deception. When President Barack Obama visited Bethlehem in 2013, P.A. officials temporarily removed a large sculpture showing a map with all of Israel as “Palestine,” which the president would have seen as his motorcade approached the city. For the occasion, the sculpture was replaced with a monument of a dove.

Likewise, when United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was scheduled to visit the Al-Zeitoun School in Gaza in 2017, Hamas officials quickly covered up a large map showing all of Israel as “Palestine.”

The Germans wanted to hide the mass murder of the Jews for fear that the international community might intervene. The Soviets hoped to improve trade relations with the West and promote communism as the ideal system of government. The North Koreans are trying to disguise military activity in what is supposed to be a demilitarized zone. The P.A. and Hamas do not want any negative publicity that could jeopardize the international assistance they receive.

And if China, with the help of allies such as Code Pink, ever entices members of Congress to visit, we can expect its government to practice its own particular version of Potemkinism to hide what it is doing to the Uyghurs.

Originally published by Jewish Journal.

Brianna Barry

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August 10, 2023

Overview

Brianna Barry [Brianna K. Barry] has promoted Holocaust revisionism, spread anti-Semitism and equated Israel with Nazi Germany. Barry also expressed support for Hamas terrorists and spread hatred of Zionists and Israel.

Barry is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of June 2023, Barry’s LinkedIn profile said she was a “Data Scientist.” As of the same date, Barry’s Twitter bio said she was a “Scientist.”

As of June 2023, Barry’s LinkedIn said she graduated from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine (JHUSOM) with a master’s of science in “Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology” in 2020. Barry was also a graduate research assistant at JHUSOM from August 2017 to December 2020.

In April 2021, Barry tweeted: “It’s been ~3.5 months since I left myPhD program at Johns Hopkins.” On May 31, 2023, Barry tweeted that she was “unceremoniously fired from my PhD program at Johns Hopkins just a few months out from graduation.”

As of June 2023, Barry’s LinkedIn said she graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry in 2017. While studying at UT Austin, Barry was a research ambassador from August 2016 to May 2017 and an undergraduate researcher from May 2014 to May 2017.

As of June 2023, Barry went by the username “Bree B.” and used the handle “@KGBreeB” on Twitter.

Holocaust Revisionism

On October 28, 2022, Barry tweeted: “Jews were not exterminated because they were Jewish. They were exterminated because times were very hard, and Jewish people, alongside many others, were scapegoated. Watch your backs. [18/18].”

“Holocaust revisionism” is a form of anti-Semitism where proponents deny or minimize key aspects of the Holocaust.

On December 22, 2022, Barry tweeted: “The number of German Jews killed in the Holocaust is comparable to the number of German Jews who fought for Nazis in WWII. Both numbers are less than the number of Americans who died in WWII…”

On January 27, 2023, Barry tweeted: “…half of Germany’s Jews were Nazis, & they marched into Poland with their fellow fascists & murdered millions.”

Anti-Semitism

On April 4, 2023, Barry tweeted: “A topic I’ve discussed at length in recent years is that the modern fight against anti-semitism actually *is* anti-semitism. World Jewry is an enormously wealthy and powerful lobby with specific self interest that wields the word ‘Jew’ for political gain, including against Jews.”

On January 13, 2023, Barry tweeted: “If you want a master class in how elites operate in the US & beyond, look no further than the exclusionary tactics of Judaism and modern world Jewry. You don’t go from the Holocaust to Forbes’ lists in 70 years by accident. In truth, Hitler selectively exterminated the poor. 9/9.”

On November 15, 2022, Barry tweeted in support of a quote attributed to American actor Marlon Brando that read: “Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews–and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering. Because…we have seen…the greaseball, we’ve seen the Chink, we’ve seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we’ve seen everything but we never saw the kike. Because they knew perfectly well that that’s where you draw [line].”

Kike is an anti-Semitic slur referring to a Jewish person.

On October 30, 2022, Barry tweeted about when she first got to JHU, writing: “All I knew about ‘Jews’ was that they faced extermination in the Holocaust, have forced Palestinians to face extermination via Israel, and that they have some sort of protected status in the US because of ‘anti-semitism.’…”

Equating Israel with Nazi Germany

On April 16, 2023, Barry tweeted: “…the Israeli gov’t is a far-right, fascist gov’t that has presided over Palestinian concentration camps since its inception…”

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Thirty-four other countries have adopted the definition as well.

Also on April 16, 2023, Barry also tweeted in the same thread: “…Israel appears to be in the initial stages of a Final Solution plan. No exaggeration. I mean this literally.” The Nazis called their planned mass murder of Jews: “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question.”

Barry concluded the thread by writing: “Much like the Soviet Union held back nothing against Germany’s Final Solution, so too must Palestine fight Israel…”

On December 14, 2022, Barry tweeted: “I finally put all the pieces together yesterday: Israelis & Palestinians are Canaanites. The Hebrew Bible is the founding myth of Israel, in which the ancient Israelites genocided the other peoples of Canaan. Except they didn’t… until now. Zionism is Jewish National Socialism [Nazism].”

Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.

On October 13, 2022, Barry tweeted: “With Israel’s concentration camps for Palestinians, racialized segregation among its own Jewish citizens, and flourishing Apartheid South African community, the Jewish alliance with racism continues to run its course.”

Terror Support (Hamas)

On December 14, 2022, Barry tweeted: “AP [Associated Press] has reported that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians

attended the 35th anniversary rally in Gaza for Hamas… #FreePalestine.”

Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organizationby the European Union, Canada, Australia, Japan, Paraguay, the U.S., Israel and the United Kingdom. Founded in 1987, it has carried out suicide bombings and rocket attacks against civilian targets, wounding and killing thousands of Israelis.

On October 28, 2021, Barry tweeted: “Is there a way for me to donate to Hamas.” In the same thread, Barry tweeted two days later: “If it helps, I’m open to supporting them in other ways as well. .”

On July 22, 2021, Barry tweeted: “The devil finds work for idle hands. Perhaps Hamas has been too easy on Israel, if Israel has the time to interfere with western democracy and subvert the free market.”

On May 16, 2021, in response to Israel bombing a high-rise building in Gaza that was used as a base for Hamas operations, Barry tweeted: “There is absolutely no evidence of Hamas ever using the building. Israel asserted their claim without ever providing evidence, & Israel *still* hasn’t provided any evidence.”

The building was also used by the Al Jazeera Media Network and other major news outlets. The Israeli military warned the building’s tenants to vacate the premises one hour before the attack, which was part of Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) against terrorists in Gaza.

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

On May 14, 2021, Barry tweeted: “The US calls Hamas a ‘terrorist organization’ because Hamas resists Israel’s genocidal campaign. Palestine is a sovereign state, and Hamas is a security & social services force recognized by the UN. Hamas is fighting to save Palestinians from total extermination.”

Hatred of Israel and Zionists

On March 21, 2023, Barry tweeted: “I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Zionism is treason.”

On March 7, 2023, Barry wrote a tweet claiming that Israel trains “US police to become fascistic killers…”

The accusation that Israeli law enforcement teaches American police brutal tactics during police exchange programs is used to demonize Israel. Participants in these programshave stated [00:02:14] that the training in Israel focuses [00:13:36] on public policy, counter-terrorism and leadership training in the form of lectures and discussions.

On December 24, 2022, Barry tweeted: “American Zionists should be classified as enemies of the United States, barred from public office, and charged with treason.”

On the same date, Barry tweeted in the same thread: “Israeli apartheid is exalted & protected by US officials.”

On the same date, Barry tweeted in the same thread: “Our taxes, soldiers, and defense resources are used to destabilize the world against America’s interests. Our gov’t is overrun by Zionists. It’s high time that we the people reaffirmed our own character, forged our own identity, and envisioned our own future. Zionism must go.”

On November 27, 2022, Barry tweeted: “If the terrorist state of Israel is ever to fall, we must prepare for global consequences. Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians, but that’s not all they do. The US military and NATO, for ex, depend upon Israeli manufacturing, intelligence, & cyber infrastructure.”

On April 7, 2022, Barry tweeted: “Zionism is a state of Jewish supremacy. I’ve read the manifestos of early Zionist leaders and radical Jewish terrorists. I’ve read chapter after chapter of the Bible and the Talmud. Zionism is genocide. To ask someone facing extinction how the murderers will go on is inhuman.”

The Talmud is a fundamental text of Rabbinic Judaism and a primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology.

BDS

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true.

One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”

Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”

In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”

The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.

BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.

The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.

Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.

BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.