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USA Outlaws Boycotts Against Israel

The U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security is charged with administering and enforcing the Antiboycott Laws under the Export Administration Act. Those laws discourage, and in some circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from furthering or supporting the boycott of Israel sponsored by the Arab League, and certain Moslem countries, including complying with certain requests for information designed to verify compliance with the boycott. Compliance with such requests may be prohibited by the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and may be reportable to the Bureau. The antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) apply to the activities of U.S. persons in the interstate or foreign commerce of the United States. The term "U.S. person" includes all individuals, corporations and unincorporated associations resident in the United States, including the permanent domestic affiliates of foreign concerns. U.S. persons also include U.S. cit...

Israeli professor indicted for incitement to anti-gay violence

By Rachel Charman Pink News UK Hilleil Weiss, a Bar-llan university professor, has been indicted for public homophobic remarks made regarding Jerusalem Pride 2005. Professor Weiss said in an interview two weeks before Jerusalem's Pride parade: 'This abomination should be expelled from the Holy City by any means necessary.' There were later violent protests at the pride parade, in which a marcher was stabbed. full article

Monument to honor homosexual Holocaust victims

by Reuven Weiss Israel Culture, Ynetnews First Israeli monument honoring tens of thousands of homosexual Holocaust victims to be erected in Tel Aviv park A monument honoring the homosexual men and women who were persecuted due to their sexual orientation and perished during the Holocaust is to be established in Meir Garden in Tel Aviv, according to Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai A quarter of a million homosexuals were persecuted during the Holocaust, and tens of thousands were murdered because the Nazi Party believed their sexual preference to be deviant. In the concentration camps in which they were imprisoned, gay men were forced to wear a pink triangle while lesbian women wore a black patch. full article