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From: JNS News <editor@jns.org> To: <jeevacationggmail.com> Subject: Lightning 'Bohn' for Israel; no sunshine for BDS; pro-Israel outreach to blacks Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:29:45 +0000 FEBRUARY 25, 2016 No sunshine for BDS A lightning 'Boldt' of German support for Israel Outreach to black community becoming a staple in pro-Israel advocacy Kerry slaps Abbas's wrist on Palestinian incitement SUBSCRIBE TO JNS NEWSLETTER FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND GJ A BDS movement protest in London No sunshine for BDS There won't be any sunshine for boycotters of Israel in the Sunshine State. In a 112-2 vote, the Florida House of Representatives on Feb. 24 passed "Senate Bill 86: Scrutinized Companies," legislation designed to prevent Florida from investing in or doing business with companies participating in boycotts of Israel. If signed into law by Governor Rick Scott, the bill would require the state to maintain a list of "scrutinized companies" participating in boycotts of Israel, or boycotts against companies and individuals doing business in Israel. Even a statement by a company that it planned to participate in such a boycott could be held against the company. Florida is part of a growing group of U.S. states that are legislatively targeting boycotters of Israel, through either resolutions condemning the BDS movement or measures that take concrete action against boycotts. Read the full story here. BACK TO ARTICLE INDEX EFTA00653527 A lightning 'Boldt' of German support for Israel Andreas Boldt can't help but effuse praise and love for Israel with seemingly any chance he gets-with his kids, too. In some of his Facebook posts, the 37-year-old has his dirty blonde-haired children (ages 5-13) passionately singing "Adon Olam" and "Hatikvah." Documenting a recent trip to Israel, he took particular pride in his meeting with IDF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Doron Almog, the first commando to land on the Entebbe runway for the famous hostage- rescue mission in 1976. With his bright blue eyes, carefully trimmed beard, and fit build, he sometimes models on Facebook with the Israeli and German flag. A casual observer might think he has some sort of irrational or religious obsession with Israel, but sitting down with Boldt over coffee at Kaffehaus Einstein in Berlin, he says his support for the Jewish state is dictated entirely by reason and ethics. "People ask me: Why do I support Israel this way? Why do I put in so much effort, time, and money into Israel? There is no people, no state on the planet that has so many enemies, that's fighting so much in this life, like the Jewish people and the State of Israel," Boldt tells JNS.org. Read the full story here. Andreas Boldt Outreach to black community becoming a staple in pro-Israel advocacy Black History Month is marked each February, but reaching out to the African-American community has become a year-round endeavor for pro-Israel and interfaith-minded organizations. Such efforts serve to combat anti-Israel groups' aggressive courtship of minority communities to support the pro-Palestinian narrative. "These organizations prey on the ignorance of the minority communities by offering one side of the story that often showcases Israel dishonestly, and thus in the poorest light. Supporters of BDS try to export the anti-Israel reasoning to minority associations by appropriating the successful struggle against real apartheid in South Africa," said David Walker, national campus coordinator at EFTA00653528 Christians United for Israel (CUFI). At the same time, Pew Research Center data echoes the historical trend of black- Christian support for Israel. "Black Christians tend to be pro-Israel, if only in the biblical and spiritual sense. In- depth knowledge about modern-day Israel or Middle East politics is not common in the black church," said CUFI's diversity outreach coordinator, Pastor Dumisani Washington. Read the full story here. Pastor Dumisani Washington. diversity outreach coordinator at Christians United for Israel BACK TO ARTICLE INDEX Kerry slaps Abbas's wrist on Palestinian incitement Just when you thought Secretary of State John Kerry couldn't get any weaker on the problem of Palestinian incitement and violence, he did. Kerry met with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, Jordan, on Feb. 21, against a backdrop of daily Palestinian stabbings of Israeli women and children, and non-stop anti-Jewish incitement in official PA media outlets. Yet the secretary of state did not threaten to withhold or reduce the Obama administration's annual $500 million aid package to the PA over the incitement. Kerry didn't even demand that the PA stop the incitement or the violence. The PA sees that it can do anything it wants, with no consequences, writes columnist Stephen M. Flatow. Read the full story here. John Kerry with Mahmoud Abbas BACK TO ARTICLE INDEX EFTA00653529 `IJNS NEWS: A wide-ranging weekly update on the Middle East and the Jewish worldr Unsubscribe I Update your profile I Forward to a friend Copyright 12016r All rights reserved. JNS 214 Lincoln St. Suite 418 Allston. MA 02134 Add us to your address book EFTA00653530