One of a set

21 February 2012 Nothing we want or use

A poster from the BDS is making the rounds (hat tip Jews News). It essentially lists major brands with Israel connections†, such as CNN, Coca Cola, IBM, Calvin Klein, MacDonalds. It is difficult to understand what BDS hopes to gain by news organisations boycotting Israel, even [...]

Not so wild West

19 September 2011

See previous post: Well, what have you really done?.

 Much ado about Dunbartonshire F.O.I. response from West Dunbartonshire Council

The Freedom of Information request took much longer than the twenty days predicted (May 25 to Sep 16).

I have reproduced it in full, excluding the contact details for myself and [...]

Twitter for WIKIMANIA Haifa

Twitter WIKIMANIA to success July 28, 2011

Wikimania 2011 • Haifa, Israel, August 4–7, 2011

Once a year, hundreds of participants from around the globe, meet at the central conference of the Wikimedia movement to create a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

The [...]

Balance

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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Charlotte E. Keyes (1966)

Suppose they gave a war and only one side came? That’s the end for that side.

Five Minutes for Israel (2010)

VENTURA — Two Israeli citizens, one Palestinian and one Jew, will offer [...]

Sustain the Veto

Are you fed up with calls to boycott Israeli goods and services? Want to do something about it? Now you can. Sign up for BUYcott Alerts today.

Five Minutes for Israel is pleased to forward this Action Alert from BUYcott Israel. They also operate a BuyCOTT Israel Facebook page and TWITTER at @Buycott.

Uphold [...]

BDS

Bluff, Deceive, Swindle?

For those of you who haven’t been following, when you see B.D.S. coming from one of the Destroy Israel Lobby it means Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions. Fortunately for us its application has been spotty at best but that doesn’t stop it being annoying. So I’ve been thinking about better acronyms.

One I [...]