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Palestinians: BDS Activists Are Troublemakers, Criminals
by Khaled Abu Toameh
• May 30, 2014 at 5:00 am
The Palestinian Authority's move against the BDS activists shows
that it considers the movement a threat to Palestinian interests.
A Palestinian Authority official in Ramallah explained that BDS
and its followers make the Palestinians appear as if they are all radicals
who are only interested in boycotting and delegitimizing Israel.
"No, we do not support the boycott of Israel." —
Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority.
The
four Palestinian BDS activists stand during their court appearance in
Ramallah. (Image source: Wattan TV video screenshot)
At university campuses in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe, they are
hailed as heroes campaigning for Palestinian rights. But in Ramallah,
ironically, activists belonging to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions [BDS] movement are seen by the Palestinian Authority [PA] as
trouble-makers and law-breakers.
For some PA officials, BDS is a movement that acts against the true
interests of the Palestinians. They say that the actions of those promoting
BDS make the Palestinians appear as if they are not interested in peace and
coexistence with Israel. BDS activists in Ramallah have succeeded in
preventing several planned meetings between Israelis and Palestinians in
Ramallah and east Jerusalem.
European Elections: "No to Europe, Yes to Europe"
by Soeren Kern
• May 30, 2014 at 4:30 am
"I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future
historians may write of the May 2014 elections: 'This was the wake-up call
from which Europe failed to wake up.'" — Timothy Garten Ash, The
Guardian.
Nigel
Farage (left), head of the UK Independence Party, and Marine Le Pen, head of
France's National Front party. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
Anti-establishment parties from both the left and the right won big in
the 28-nation European Parliament elections that ended on May 25.
Riding a wave of voter discontent over the existing political order in
Europe, the electoral victories—especially those by euro-skeptic politicians
in major EU countries such as Britain, France and Germany—mark a clear
turning point in the debate over the future of the European Union.
The surge of anti-EU parties represents an important blow to the
legitimacy of plans by the European establishment to transform the continent
into a United States of Europe.
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