BDS threats thwart Israeli-Palestinian normalization meeting in Bethlehem

A meeting between Israelis and Palestinians that was supposed to take place in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, on Thursday has been relocated, after the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement threatened to thwart the gathering.The meeting was meant to be the founding congress of the Two States One Homeland Initiative, which advocates the establishment of two sovereign states on one open homeland.The Israeli-Palestinian group believes in equality for both people living with open borders.The Israeli side is represented by former Haaretz journalist Meron Rapoport, while the Palestinian side is represented by Awni al-Mashni, a senior Fatah official from the West Bank.“Because of difficulties on the Palestinian street, we have decided, in agreement with our Palestinian partners, to postpone the Founding Congress of Two States One Homeland Initiative in Beit Jala on Thursday to a more calm period,” the group said in a statement on Tuesday.

The organizers decided to hold the meeting on the same day but in Jerusalem.

Palestinian sources said that BDS activists in Bethlehem threatened to wage protests against the meeting if it were held in Beit Jala.



http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/BDS-threats-thwart-Israeli-Palestinian-normalization-meeting-in-Bethlehem-405501


How much more evidence do people need to see that the BDS is against the self determination of Israeli's and does not want peace between Palestinians and Israeli's. They should be for this event, not against, but as seen they are against because they do not want peace between both sides and they do not want Israel to exist. Who protests against a peace initiative?


To top that off you also have this:






What’s wrong with this picture?

Israeli journalist Amira Hass was covering a conference at Bir Zeit University. She was perfectly up front with the Palestinian student organizers helping run the event, registering that she was from Haaretz.

Hass says she has covered events and interviewed Palestinians at the Ramallah campus for 20 years, and has friendly relations with many of them. There was no reason to believe that Tuesday’s conference, “Alternatives to Neo-Liberal Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territories — Critical Perspectives,” would be different from other academic confabs she has covered.

In the past twenty years, I have entered Birzeit University dozens of times, and have been an audience member at various academic conferences there. I have also interviewed faculty members both on and off campus.

But Tuesday was different.

Two of the lecturers asked Hass to leave.

Israeli Jews are not allowed on campus. Students might break into the conference hall to protest her presence. Palestinian students need a safe Israel-free sanctuary. Hass supposedly needed to leave for her own protection. Rumors were spreading that the veteran Haaretz columnist was attacked.


http://honestreporting.com/amira-hass-when-only-journalists-we-like-are-welcome/