University of Haifa
University of Haifa - A Covert Look at Dalit Baum (Dept of
Women's Studies)
Dalit Baum’s
specialty is promoting BDS, or Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
against Israel as a modern extension of the
Arab League Boycott. As a radical member of the
Coalition of Women
for Peace, an NGO set up mostly by lesbian academics in support
of the Arabs getting whatever they want from Israel, Dalit
Baum has further carved out a niche for
herself in the subgroup titled
Who Profits From the Occupation? You want to know who profits
from the “Occupation”? Dalit Baum profits,
that’s who. Baum was the founder of the
radical group Black Laundry that is composed of radical lesbians who
support the misogynist Arabs in their quest to dismantle the Jewish
state.
http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/3660
A covert look at Dalit Baum & New Israel
Fund
In-Depth undercover investigative report:
Academic lesbians for jihad
By Lee Kaplan, Communications Director
1 April 2010: The
Israeli taxpayers should take notice of Dalit Baum who bills herself
as a Professor of Gender Studies and World Economy at the
University of Haifa and
Beit Berl College. As these taxpayers work to feed their
families in an always tight Israeli economy, little do they know
that Dalit Baum is traveling the world and the Internet, funded in
part by the two sinecures provided from these taxpayer-supported
colleges in Israel, to do all she can to see that those taxpaying
Israelis lose their jobs, if not their entire country, and that they
be unemployed.
Dalit Baum’s specialty is promoting
BDS, or Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel as a modern
extension of the
Arab League Boycott. As a radical member of the
Coalition of Women
for Peace, an NGO set up mostly by lesbian academics in support
of the Arabs getting whatever they want from Israel, Dalit Baum has
further carved out a niche for herself in the subgroup titled
Who Profits From the Occupation?
You want to know who profits from the
“Occupation”? Dalit Baum profits, that’s who. Baum was the founder
of the radical group Black Laundry that is composed of radical
lesbians who support the misogynist Arabs in their quest to
dismantle the Jewish state. One should write a book on Baum titled
“How to have an academic career based solely on your own sexual
disambiguation and by destroying the State of Israel.” The only
advanced degree she holds is a PhD in mathematics. But her
anti-Israel activism, or rather, subversion, lands her lots of
teaching work worldwide where she strives to bring down the Jewish
state. I searched for hours and could not find one book or
significant academic article by Baum in either Gender Studies or
Economics.
Despite this, Baum does the lecture
circuit in the US in Women’s Studies departments, primarily ones
that have lesbian activists like herself who will hire her. It’s
easy to see how she proclaims herself an expert on Gender Studies
since she is a study in and of herself. As for World Economy, she
lectures on how to economically boycott Israel, so gets the bully
pulpit of classrooms (particularly in America) to push that agenda
too. Her
reading materials for a course she gave once at UC Santa Cruz
that required students plan and carry out an activist attack on
something (preferably Israel) included a book by Miriam Simos, aka
Starhawk, an
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) crazy who tells everyone
she is a witch and practices paganism. This is an example of the
academic research and sourcing as practiced by Dalit Baum as a field
of academic study.
Her real research is in how to help
the Arabs destroy Israel.
On February 17, 2010, Dalit Baum gave
a guest lecture in San Francisco, California that was sponsored by
the UC Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine, part of the same
ISM that foments riots every weekend in Bi’ilin and works to bring
money and material goods to Hamas in Gaza. Baum’s Who Profits?
website is even permanently
linked on the SJP’s website where their mission is to destroy
Israel.
The purpose of her lecture was to
train activists in San Francisco in how to expand the BDS campaign
against Israel in America. About 35 hardcore radicals showed up for
this session and I attended it undercover and
filmed everything that
is now viewable with this article.
For an excellent example of how Dalit
Baum over the last several years has routinely lied or distorted
facts on the college lecture circuit in order to demonize the Jewish
state, there is a
post by a California blogger named Becky Johnson that
illustrates Baum in action before a mostly college-aged audience in
Santa Cruz, California, where she has been allowed to “teach.”
Back then and even to this day, during
the lecture I attended, and on her website, she says that Israel
holds 10,000 political prisoners in its jails, meaning that every
Palestinian Arab who murdered an Israeli, or attempted to, or built
bombs, should be released unconditionally. She is not a pacifist
working toward peace, but rather a subversive working to destroy the
same state that employs her and gives her two sinecures to go abroad
and isolate Israel in the world of public opinion.
I arrived at Baum’s training lecture
early at 745 Valenica Street in San Francisco to see her in action.
At the door, I was asked to sign a “pledge card” agreeing to
participate in activities to boycott any companies accused of being
complicit with the “occupation.”
Literature accompanying the pledge
card stated the goal of the campaign was to “end the occupation and
colonization of all Arab lands (i.e. Israel itself),” to recognize
the fundamental rights of the Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel
(Israeli Arabs) to full equality (which they already have by law in
Israel that is enforced by the government), and a guaranteed “right
of return” of all “refugees” (any Arab who says he is one) to their
homes and
properties left in 1948 (the Catch 22
so there can never be peace without tearing apart the Jewish state).
This wasn’t a limited program to make
a peace settlement in the region, but another form of warfare
against Jews, in essence, starving them out of their country and
national homeland. This type of action was said to be “nonviolent”
and helping human rights, that is, by starving the Jews into
submission. This was a lecture by an Israeli woman (thing) who wants
Israel destroyed to become Palestine despite her two-faced denials.
The event was sponsored by the
Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley that just fixed a
divestment proposal to be passed by the student government there as
well Break the Siege, a group that works to assist Hamas against
Israel, by trying to stop Israel from preventing the importation of
weapons into Gaza by sea or land from Iran.
Of note, there was a colorful brochure
handed out to us at the door for the Coalition of Women for Peace,
the NGO that Dalit Baum also works for. CWP’s brochure boasted how
“In November 2006 we led a collation of 17 Israeli organizations and
more than 100 groups around the world to protest against the
economic and military siege of the Gaza strip (in other words,
support for Hamas). The one month campaign included demonstrations,
public events, car convoys, an on-line petition and more.” Another
excerpt declared “The world says no to Israeli occupation.”
The document then had a section titled
“Re-framing Security”. It explained that “security” was a euphemism
“to justify all military activity and the occupation of Palestinian
territories.” It continued, “The ‘Reframing Security’ Project
explores this term from the broadest feminist-civil perspective,
thus challenging the narrow militaristic understanding of security.
Security in its civil forms includes aspects such as economic
security (having a job, a roof over one’s head, access to health
care), security in the family and the community (safety from
gender-related violence, protection from crime, having one’s
children safe in schools), environmental security (clean tap water,
clean air), etc. The project generates critical discourse through
lecture series, workshops and tours for groups of formal educators
and informal educators (like Baum’s presentation that evening),
young leaders, social activists and other actors for change.”
Ironically, the Boycott lecture and
training that Baum was to give that evening, based on information
from her, already has cost jobs and social welfare benefits to
Israelis who I guess are not entitled to security in its civil
forms. Gender related violence as honor killings is normal in the
Palestinian Authority and prohibited in Israel, and Israeli children
in Sderot at school are subject to missile attacks from Hamas that
CWP supports, but this too is apparently lost on Baum and her
supporters. Even Gaza enjoys
clean water thanks to Israel, not Hamas.
Despite this, Dalit Baum ‘s perverse
lecture implied that human rights would be served by denying these
same basic “feminist-civil” ideas of “security” to Jews and other
Israelis.
The brochure then listed eleven CWP
allies that are also affiliated with the International Solidarity
Movement, such as
Machsom Watch that interferes with Israeli soldiers at
checkpoints,
Women in Black that demonstrates also in favor of Hamas,
New Profile that was recently raided by the police for
encouraging desertion and draft dodging from the IDF, and the
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, a pro-Marxist
group that sponsors a woman named
Anna Baltzer who tours churches in America giving Christians
fake reports on how Israel routinely commits atrocities against
innocent Arabs and where she concludes how violence against Israelis
is a natural reaction to such things. Baltzer is against Israel
existing as a Jewish state so it isn’t a stretch to figure out that
Dalit Baum is on the same page given the evening’s lecture.
The back page of the brochure
generated the most of my interest.
It read, “For a US-tax deduction
(minimum $100), make out a check to “New Israel Fund.” Write in the
memo line “For the Coalition of Women for Peace” and mail to NIF,
1101 14th Street NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC
200005-5639”.
In Israel there has been a major
scandal about the New Israel Fund (NIF) funding all manner of
subversive and destructive organizations. Naomi Chazan, the head of
NIF in Israel has denied publicly that NIF funds any such entities.
Yet here in San Francisco was proof that NIF does exactly that;
Baum’s event was advertised as a CWP event and her Who Profits?
website is part of CWP. What most Israelis and even American Jews
don’t know, is that above Chazan as Chairman of the Board of NIF,
sits Martin Indyk, the former US State Department ambassador in Tel
Aviv who has always opposed Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria
and supported Palestinian goals no matter how unreasonable. NIF was
clearly funding this “starve the Jews out” lecture by Dalit Baum.
So much for
Chazan’s denials and further proof of a fifth column working
from inside Israel’s academia funded from the outside.
Other flyers handed out at the door
urged “End Apartheid. Boycott Israeli Goods,” “South Africa Did It”,
and “Take the Pledge Now”. Given that Israel is the only state in
the Middle East that does not practice apartheid, the goal of the
literature and speech that evening was to fool the naïve into
thinking they are promoting a campaign as was conducted against
former South Africa where apartheid was really practiced. Sadly,
this manipulation of facts to fool people into hating Israel was
further promoted by Baum during the evening’s talk. Still another
flyer listed companies the “pledges” should work to boycott or
encourage people to divest from. These companies included
non-Israeli companies that were American firms that have Jewish
managers or owners such as Estee Lauder.
In that case, it was explained that
the owner, Ron Lauder, who is Jewish, volunteers for the Jewish
National Fund, “a quasi-national governmental organization that was
established in 1901 to acquire Palestinian land…” according to one
flyer. It mentioned Lauder’s company was targeted for attack by
“Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT)”
another homosexual anarchist group that Dalit Baum belongs to.
Given that the
JNF purchased all its land legally before the creation of either
Israel or a Palestinian state when the area was part of the Ottoman
Empire, particularly back in 1901, and is somehow responsible for
“settlements” today (meaning helping Jews find homes in Israel),
Lauder’s company being listed is really a boycott against American
Jews, if anything, and a violation of US Civil Rights Laws. Other
American companies targeted for boycott included Hanes, Playtex,
Champion, Ball Park Hot dogs and even the Wonderbra (perhaps a
different type of support?).
Even Victoria’s Secret’s bras were
subject to the list because their cotton is grown in Israel “on
confiscated Palestinian land.”
Of course, since all of Israel is on
“confiscated Palestinian land” in the view of Dalit Baum and her
crowd, even the land purchased legally by Lauder’s Jewish National
Fund back in 1901, this was a Boycott against all of Israel, not
just the “occupation” of the West Bank or its settlements.
This fact was also explained to us by
Dalit Baum during her lecture. At first she said her group, Who
Profits?, as part of the CWP, was only interested in “the West Bank,
Gaza, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem,” not inside the Green
Line from 1948. Yet at one point during the lecture she told us that
it is impossible to boycott just the occupied territories as they
claim they do, that her group does indeed promote the boycott of all
of Israel.
Although the event was sponsored and
advertised by the UC Berkeley chapter of the Students for Justice in
Palestine that only weeks later was to push through a divestment
bill by the University’s student government, the evening was
introduced as an event by the BACIA, the Bay Area Campaign to End
Israeli Apartheid. The host told us his group wasn’t shifting the
“debate” away from the “occupation,” but rather devoting their
efforts “to do BDS work.”
The goal of having Dalit Baum there
that evening was to (1) get people to sign pledge cards to agree to
boycott Israeli products (2) to damage the Israeli economy and 3) to
keep in touch with a newsletter and other events to keep the boycott
going.
Baum began her lecture by explaining
that Who Profits? grew out of a discussion by CWP about “the need to
know more of the economic aspects of the 1967 occupation.” She then
went on to explain that “it is impossible to separate the economy of
the ’67 occupation from the entire community of Israel.” Because of
this, she said, “we had to switch our thinking around.”
“Occupation is expensive, costs a lot.
Maybe we should pull out, too expensive to hold onto, when maybe the
money could be used for health care,” she explained.
“If you flip it, and look at it for
profits and how all the money from US Israel relations goes to
corporations and the military, some goes here, some goes there, we
can trace money and look for a pattern.”
“Israeli society profits from the
occupation. Those close to the decision making in the government
have more clout .” Thus was born her organization and website with
CWP, “Who Profits?” she explained, as a means of direct influence on
Israel’s economy with three categories of involvement:
The main idea is for activists to show
things openly so as to invade the privacy of corporations or the
government.
Next, came the settlements calling to
report on anything built beyond the Green Line. Although CWP is run
by an Arab leader and an Israeli, she stated that since she and her
colleagues are Israelis it allows them freedom of movement including
at checkpoints only Israelis could have. She explained that most of
her work involved taking photographs and using Google. She boasted
about how she was told it is illegal for security reasons to take
photos at checkpoints and how she scoffed at the soldiers who told
her so, continuing on anyway.
She flashed a photo of the entrance to
the Barkan Industrial Zone in Judea/Samaria, “The biggest center
with all the money,” she said and explained how she made it a major
target for boycott. “It’s near the settlement of Ariel,” she
explained, “most of their exports are kitchen items.”
She said that the “settlers” send her
letters: “They really were angry. ‘We employ Palestinians, provide a
service, why are you against us?’” she almost snickered. She said
she replied to them “We are doing what we can for peace,” and
offered them a chance to work with CWP to help Palestinians or do
what she termed “Green Work.” The only “Green Work” I saw was Hamas
green.
“There are many initiatives to boycott
settlement products…,” she continued, “…very tiny, very small
initiatives. Don’t buy settlement products. We want people to do
much more.” The life in Israel is affected by the economy of the
settlements, she explained, as she described some of the settlement
products such as halvah, and seasonings and herbs, whose origins in
the settlements is concealed by some companies that use
“non-settlement addresses” inside Israel.
She explained the reason for this was
Israel has free trade agreements with the US and EU that may not
include the occupied territories. As such, her movement could force
these Israeli companies to pay higher import taxes citing Germany as
an example of how her group made some of the companies pay higher
customs duties.
This, of course, lowers profits and
can cost people jobs. But Dalit Baum was on a mission and just
getting warmed up.
She mentioned that IT customer
services are big in the settlements, as well. “Two companies provide
this,” she said. She explained how people in America who thought
they were calling an American customer service agent in the US were
rerouted to places like Modi’in in Israel where there is usually an
American Jewish woman who answers the phone and provides the
service. “It’s important to know which companies do the service,”
she said.
Why? So maybe she and her boycott
acolytes can cost that woman a job. After all, what better way to
promote peace as the Arab League see it?
What Dalit Baum doesn’t mention during
her lecture is that Modi’in is well within the Green Line from 1948
and has been a Jewish city for millennia. Baum uses deceptive
language to imply that even parts of Israel, separate from disputed
territory taken in 1967, are “settlements” stolen from the Arabs.
This is nothing more then subversion and giving aid to Israel’s
enemies. What she can’t do to hurt her fellow Israelis with guns she
will do with disinformation and words. Then again, as an “academic”
she lectures all the time in two Israeli universities on topics she
also knows little about.
Next, she mentioned Lev Leviev’s
company for targeting. It seems the Leviev company does building in
the settlements. “It’s not just a product, it’s also construction,”
she advised. Maybe she can cost some construction workers, even
Palestinian ones, their jobs too. It won’t cost the PLO or Hamas
leaders she shills for any income, but the average Palestinian can
be sure to find less work then blame it on Israel thanks to Dalit
Baum.
She then went after services provided
to Israelis in Judea and Samaria by companies inside the Green Line.
Such companies don’t provide the same services to the Palestinians,
she said, recounting a letter from a victim of her project who said
flatly, “We do not discriminate.” But she went on that it was “a
very clear apartheid economy, not for the Palestinians.” She did not
define what these services were. Perhaps gun cleaning and bomb
assembly for the Palestinian Authority?
She took relish in discussing the
Veolia corporation as being “a good example of a good organizing
campaign.” Veolia, a French firm, provides myriad services abroad
and in Israel, but mainly in the EU such as water services, public
transportation and waste removal. She explained that privatization
of services had made it easier to facilitate the boycott
internationally and how they were able to get smaller municipalities
overseas to boycott Veolia by going to local governments and getting
them to refuse to work with the French company for “violating
international law” for dealing with Israel. CWP and Who Profits?
obviously work with Arabs overseas to organize these campaigns.
The occupied territories are in
dispute and the settlements are not illegal, but Baum constantly
recites the Arab propaganda line that they are and her trainees do
the same in the EU and elsewhere overseas. She boasted that evening
in San Francisco that they got the city of Galway in Ireland to
refuse business with Veolia and the Norwegian capital of Oslo to do
the same. “The next time a city needs clean streets they will know
not to deal with Veolia,” she bragged, and then explained that her
actions and group had cost the company $10 billion dollars in
contracts and how “that’s a lot of money.”
It sure is. And it’s a lot of Israeli
jobs lost too. She then explained how Veolia pulled out of a
contract to build a light railway to Judea and Samaria from
Jerusalem as the result of her work, thus depriving Israelis of
transportation as well as jobs.
Next, she discussed an action of which
she said, “I am really proud.” A Belgian bank named Dexia bought an
Israeli bank that loaned money to Israelis to buy homes in Judea and
Samaria. It was Dalit Baum and Who Profits?, working with the
Palestinians, who began a campaign in Europe to have the bank
boycotted for loaning money to many of the municipalities in Judea
and Samaria. The situation resulted in Knesset hearings because the
bank was not loaning money to these Israeli residents. It is
important to understand that regardless if one thinks borders should
be redrawn in a final peace settlement, the uprooting of Jewish
communities is not a route to peace. Dalit Baum, however, wants the
Arabs to take all of Israel, only starting with Judea and Samaria.
Her actions got the governments of France and Belgium to pressure
Dexia to not give loans to Israeli citizens, the same ones who pay
her salaries at Israeli universities.
But wait, there’s so much more:
She told us how in the UK, food
products produced in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria have
to be labeled so as to be more easily boycotted as a result of her
efforts. “It’s really great”, she said, and “it makes organizing
supermarket boycott events so much easier.”
It should be noted a similar campaign
was done with the French supermarket chain Carrefour where Arabs
marched through the market pulling Israeli goods off the shelves
(not just from settlements) and destroyed them. Local activists
tried doing this at Trader Joe’s in the San Francisco Bay Area but
were advised by law enforcement it’s illegal to tamper with the
public food supply.
She boasted that she spends all her
time looking for logos: Danone, Coca-Cola, Disney—anything,
especially companies that are well-known in Israel in order to hurt
their businesses through her activism to “get them to change their
policy.” Fruits and vegetable are especially a target for Dalit
Baum, so maybe she is attracted to such products because she is so
like one of them.
She claimed that Israel requires the
Palestinians to buy important products at higher prices from Israel
and prevents the PA from exporting unless it is cheap goods. This
may be true, but the PA is under license to Israel that subsidizes
it and has a right to control financial exports until there is a
Palestinian state. This, she did explain, was because of the Oslo
Accords. What she did not explain was that the only requirement for
a PA state was the Arabs stop terrorism and arrest terrorists,
something they refuse to do.
Of course Israel has a right to
control imports and exports until the Arabs produce a truly peaceful
state next door. The importation of weapons is a favorite Arab
import right now.
She accused Israel of controlling
“Palestinian water” also. The water systems that provide clean water
to the Holy Land were built and run by Israel to this day. Israel
provides clean water even to Gaza where missiles are fired from at
Israel. If the Arabs were given unfettered control of the water
supply the first thing they would do is prevent Israel’s access to
it from Lake Kinneret or even poison it if it goes to Jewish
communities. None of this was explained by Dalit Baum, only her idea
that Israel denies Palestinians “Palestinian water” that would be
subject to Israeli control.
She next displayed a photograph of
many common Israeli logos that represented companies in cellular
communications, banks,
transportation, fuel, chain stores and even food. “You cannot live
in Israel without using these companies,” she explained, “This is
why it is impossible to boycott settlements and not Israel.” Her
statements prove she knows she is damaging the livelihood of all
Israelis, not just those in Jewish communities in Yesha.
Offering more entities to attack, she
said, “Banks are good. They give construction loans for settlements
(Jewish homes). All Israeli banks are complicit. If you have bank
concerns that you can convince the EU are illegal, this is good.
They can’t transfer funds, or open new branches or open new bank
accounts.”
This cost jobs in Israel.
She then accused Israel of exploiting
the Palestinian labor force. Israel doesn’t give jobs to the
Palestinian Arabs, she claimed, it takes advantage of them (in the
PA one of the best jobs is as a terrorist with $50K a year paid to
Al Aksa terrorists, something she didn’t bother to mention). In
fact, Arabs who work in construction for Jewish firms make sizeable
incomes.
Israel just does everything bad, you
see, according to Dalit Baum. She found on Google a toxic waste dump
in Yesha so the Israelis are dumping toxic waste on the Arabs even
if it is on unused former Jordanian state land that is not lived on.
She complained about a new light railway system from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem that takes 28 minutes but some in Israel objected to the
noise near their homes. She alleged the route was changed to go
through the West Bank to annoy the Arabs with the noise. Israel has
hired an Italian firm to build a tunnel so as to abate the noise,
she told us, and then said, “It would be a good idea to start a
campaign in Italy to stop the tunnel.”
More Israeli jobs lost.
She continued, “We have some reason to
believe, some people told us that the kibbutz that manufactures
Ahava skin care products might excavate some of the mud next to the
Dead Sea shores for their product.” She described this taking mud to
make a saleable product abroad as “pillage” that is “illegal per
international law.”
Baum is not an international attorney
and Ahava has been making skin care products forever. While the
Arabs were training their kids how to shoot Jews and throw rocks,
the Kibbutz at the Dead Sea produced a product from mud. Even this
is objectionable to Baum and should be subject to international
boycott.
She attacked the gas supplier for Gaza
for controlling gas supplies to Hamastan in favor of the Israeli
government in time of war. Then she moved on to connections with the
US complaining about Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut in Israel,
more targets to boycott inside the Green Line.
She mentioned an Israeli company that
has one hundred 7/11 stores in the United States that need to be
boycotted here and would thus cost American jobs in a bad economy
too. “It’s your job to find out” about such companies and to attack
them financially, she said.
An audience member asked her what her
position was on cases such as former PA Prime Minister Qureia
holding a monopoly of the cement business in the PA. “Oooh, a
political hot potato,” she said. Then continued, “We only concern
ourselves with Israeli companies and not what the Palestinians do.”
So much for objectivity.
She claimed next that her organization
does not concern itself with weapons companies and says so on her
website. However, it was plain to be this was a ruse to prevent the
Israeli government from seeing her as a security risk that she
clearly is. She told us that Israeli weapons do merit an
investigation then showed us photos of security systems manned
around Gaza by female IDF personnel.
It was at this point she moved into
sedition as far as I was concerned. She showed a photo of a scanner
at the Kalandia checkpoint and explained how she took pictures of it
in defiance of orders by soldiers not to do so. She then explained
the logo she found (she said she searches for logos at the
checkpoints) revealed the scanner was made by an American company,
but further research showed it was purchased by Israel through a
Danish subsidiary. She explained how she and her allies took the
issue before the Danish parliament. Their problem was how to
convince the Danes that the scanner was from a Danish company and
not America and they did just that, convincing the Danish government
to not allow any future sales of the security equipment. She showed
us how identity cards are made by a particular system for the
Palestinian Arabs that allows them to pass through the checkpoints
using biometric data, another target to pursue by ending business
with Israel.
Both of the above security systems
save both Israeli and Palestinian lives, both Jews and Arabs, by
stopping suicide bombers and terrorists. But Dalit Baum wants to
facilitate their entry into Israel in her perception of “peace” that
is definitely sedition for Arab enemies. Even the biometric cards
that would make it faster and easier for Arabs to cross the
checkpoints don’t escape her boycott plans.
The rest of the lecture actually was
devoted to attacking the weapons systems and security apparatus she
claimed she does not pursue. She discussed the companies that build
the Security Fence and boycotting them (The Security Fence has
reduced terrorist bombings inside Israel by 95%). She boasted how
the company that manufactures the fence used to have logos all along
the fence but that now they are no longer seen due to her group’s
efforts.
Again, more Israeli jobs lost.
She mentioned how she and her acolytes
go to the weekly riots in Bi’ilin and Ni’ilin in order to search for
more Israeli companies to boycott worldwide.
Then she concluded her presentation by
discussing—weapons systems. She discussed drones used at sea and in
the air. Displaying a photo of a drone boat used off Gaza, she
claimed it was used to “shoot at Palestinian fishermen,” a barefaced
lie.
The sea drones are used to combat
weapons and explosives smugglers. She also discussed the air force
drones and unmanned vehicles then mentioned Elbit Systems, Israel’s
weapons manufacturer, that makes “missiles to shoot into people’s
homes.”
She also mentioned that while her
website features information on about 500 companies that they work
to boycott Israel from, she has another thousand that she doesn’t
post on the site. The Shin Bet should see those files.
At the conclusion of her presentation,
a member of the ISM in the audience pointed out I was in the room.
Instead of running away as he must have thought I’d do, I went up to
Dalit Baum and introduced myself by shaking her hand. “I wrote an
article about you,” I said. She replied, “I know. I read it.
There isn’t a word of it that is true.”
“Really?” I said. As a journalist I
surely don’t want to write things that are untrue. Can you tell me
what I wrote in that article that isn’t true? I can even do
corrections, if so.” She couldn’t answer.
Finally, she said, “I don’t make a
career out of reading your articles.”
“I only wrote one article about you, “
I replied. Surely you can think of just one thing I wrote or said in
the article that is untrue? You just said not one word in the
article was true. Can you tell me one thing I wrote about you that’s
not true in the article?” I asked again.
She just walked away without answering
confirming that what I had written about her was, indeed, true.
It’s one thing to be a pacifist, it’s
even another to want to give concessions to the Palestinian Arabs in
a delusional dream they will stop killing Jews, but for Dalit Baum,
these are only ruses for a woman who wants Israel destroyed, and who
will stop at nothing to do so by traveling worldwide and doing it by
economic warfare. She is the most dangerous woman, er, person, in
Israel in my opinion and of more danger than an armed terrorist,
because her activities open the doors for terrorists by subverting
Israel’s economy and security systems unconditionally in favor of
the Arab terrorist groups. I firmly believe that’s what she really
wants to do. Her deconstructing of the Israeli economy is chilling.
All the while she is doing this on the Israeli taxpayer’s dime.
Maybe it’s time to boycott Dalit Baum?
Want to complain? Contact University
of Haifa and Beit Berl College administrators. They too have
families in Israel who are threatened by this woman:
President of the
University of Haifa
Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev
Tel: 972-4-8240101
Fax:
972-4-8288110
E-mail:
abenzeev@univ.haifa.ac.il
President of Beit Berl College
Dr. Tamar Ariav
Tel: 972 (9) 747 8701
Fax: 972 (9) 7478700
Email:
ariavt@beitberl.ac.il
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