…we have this article by Eugene Kontorovich, writing for the Washhington Examiner, with key excerpts shown below:
Britain’s Israel sanctions clash with US anti-boycott laws
The United Kingdom this week announced a sweeping set of boycott measures and sanctions aimed at Israel, the most aggressive measures ever taken by any non-Muslim country. Canada, France, and several other countries also vaguely pledged to pursue similar policies. This targeting comes after these countries’ attempt to “save” the “two-state solution” — the recognition of a Palestinian State — failed.
The boycotts are not required by any principles of international law. But they will force American companies that comply with them to violate U.S. federal law.
The boycotting governments invoke international law as justification, claiming the measures just apply to what they call “Israeli settlements.” But they don’t really believe in their own argument. For example, the U.K. does not forbid any kind of property development or real estate purchases in Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus, despite its treaty obligation to defend Cypriot sovereignty. Indeed, Brits are a big part of the real estate market there, buying vacation villas in areas from which Greeks have been ethnically cleansed.
The sanctions could mean that British Jews can’t buy, sell, or rent out homes in the Jewish quarter of the Old City. Developers building homes in Jewish neighborhoods could face prosecution, but not those building in Arab neighborhoods.
Jews were buying land in what London now calls settlements 100 years ago, when it was part of the British Mandate period. When Britain administered the Mandate, it abruptly restricted Jewish migration into Palestine because of objections from the local Arab population. The millions of Jews who would have sought shelter in their homeland perished in the Holocaust.
Now, Britain is trying to erase any Jewish rights to live in the area because of unrestricted Arab migration into the U.K. The Burnham government’s taking the lead against Israel is widely seen as seeking to shore up Labour support in a by-election in a heavily Muslim district.
What if I told you that, for the past three years, the most common first name for newborn babies in the UK was Muhammad. Would you laugh at my obvious joke….
…or would you check and find out that this is no joke at all. It is a dead-on reality.
I wonder when enough multi-generational Britons finally realize that they are not living in their own country anymore and try to figure out some way of retrieving their own country.
Meanwhile, the UK, until recently a relatively safe harbor for Jews (is any non-Jewish country ever really a safe haven for Jews?) is now going the other way. Big time.
Let’s see how this progresses (regresses might be the more appropriate word) as time goes by. How many other countries jump on board – among the ones that aren’t there already.
When it comes to anti-Jewish activity, after 58 centuries of this, no Jew should be surprised at anything.
