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8 August

ClintonUS GOV'T TRIED BUT FAILED TO REVERSE BDS VICTORY
On this day in 2015, a Scotsman front page on the forced publication of Hilary Clinton’s emails revealed that in 2009 she had set up a group in the US State Department in Washington DC to advise on how to reverse the decision of the Edinburgh International Film Festival to return a £300 Israeli Embassy sponsorship. Unaware of this at the time, SPSC had succeeded in channelling outrage at Israel’s 2009 massacre of Palestinians into pressure on a very reluctant EIFF to return the money to the embassy.

 

حاولت حكومة الولايات المتحدة لكنها فشلت في عكس انتصار المقاطعة

8 أغسطس

في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2015 ، صدر على الصفحة الأولى من سكوتسمان النشر الإجباري لرسائل البريد الإلكتروني لهيلاري كلينتون والتي كشفت أنها أنشأت في عام 2009 مجموعة في وزارة الخارجية في واشنطن عاصمة الولايات المتحدة تنصح بكيفية عكس قرار مهرجان أدنبرة السينمائي الدولي اعادة 300 جنيه للسفارة الإسرائيلية والتي قدمتها كرعاية للمهرجان. غير مدركين لهذا الموقف في ذلك الوقت، نجح اعضاء SPSC في توجيه الغضب من مذبحة إسرائيل للفلسطينيين عام 2009 إلى الضغط على ادارة EIFF والتي كانت مترددة للغاية لإعادة الأموال إلى السفارة.

Thanks to the compulsory publication of Clinton's emails we know that she wanted pro-Israel UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Scottish Government to pressure the EIFF to reverse its decision and accept the £300 sponsorship money from the Israeli Embassy.

Clinton was approached by Brian Greenspun of the Nevada-based Greenspun Media Group who forwarded her a week-old article on the Edinburgh boycott success. The newspaper article had originally been emailed to Mr Greenspun by his brother-in-law Bruce Ramer, a Hollywood lawyer (whose client list includes Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood). Ramer is also a former president of the Zionist-led American Jewish Committee.

The man the Hollywood Reporter categorised as one of its Power Lawyers 2012 wrote (24 May) to Greenspun, who had shared a room with Bill Clinton at college. This supporter of the recent Israeli massacre in Gaza splutters with 'outrage' at the boycott 'abomination' and demands the US Government exert pressure to neutralise the boycott success which, inevitably, he calls “anti-semitic”:

I hope you can enlist Hilary’s support (and please give her my personal best). We need, for many reasons, to have the US protest and condemn this outrageous boycott and to oppose the anti-Semitism inherent in it. The organisers of the festival must be convinced to reverse themselves....if it succeeds it will encourage and motivate those who fomented the boycott to other, probably even worse, action...This is truly appalling and serious.

The Hollywood 'Power Lawyer' replied to Greenspun that the return of the Israeli Embassy money was so "truly appalling and serious" that he "earnestly solicit[ed] your assistance with the Secretary". He also asked Hollywood film makers, including “Michael”, to boycott the Edinburgh International Film Festival and to pressure other film makers into boycotting the Edinburgh International Film Festival:

Dear Michael,
This is disgusting and outrageous. If you have any films in the festival or can lean on(2) anyone else who does, please get them withdrawn. We would not boycott the films of any other nation, even those we consider outlaws. Neither should they. And they should learn that boycotts beget boycotts.
Thanks for whatever help you can be.
Warmest regards. Bruce

Clinton responded the following day to promise that US Government pressure would be forthcoming but also asks her US correspondents to mobilise in London and Edinburgh to pressure the Scottish Government and Gordon Brown (who doesn't need any pressure to sing the praises of apartheid Israel) in order to get them to intervene:

Thanks for the headsup on this. We are working to decide the most effective way forward, and I’ll keep you informed. We have some good ideas as to what our govt can do, but we also want to see pressure from local people brought on the British and Scottish govts. Can you and Bruce reach out to the community in London and Edinburgh to urge them to raise this w PM Brown and other govt officials? We’d like to see top down and bottom up pressure. Let me know what you think.

Clinton mobilised a group of her staff, including one Andrew J Shapiro who was a senior adviser to Clinton and would soon become US Government Assistant Secretary of State for Political-military affairs. The pro-Israel gang in the US must have been hitting the keyboards, for Clinton emailed her staff: "Pls read Brian’s message and all the email traffic below. What can we do about this? Let me know if you have ideas." Her Deputy Chief of Staff mailed back that “We will confer in the morning and come up with a plan.” It's not clear what kind of plan they came up with but it was unsuccessful. The pressure that radiated out from Washington via the UK Government and "the community" to the EIFF had no visible effect.

Full story here

 

Hillary Clinton speech calls for more arms to Israel, gives AIPAC its wish list, condemns Trump as not sufficiently pro-Israel in her bid to become President. In a small way, we defeated a warmonger and determjined supporter of Israeli ethnic cleansing.
https://youtu.be/QsKn7Z9PfrU