Stop Israel's Blood Diamond Trade http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/Boycott-Israeli-Blood-Diamonds/ Target: Members of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), NGO observers to the KPCS, the World Jewellery Confederation, the Responsible Jewellery Council and all national and international Jewellers associations Sponsored by: Global Palestine Solidarity Revenue from diamonds processed in Israel funds war crimes and crimes against humanity yet they are sold worldwide as conflict free diamonds. Israel is the world's leading diamond exporter, with exports valued at nearly $20 billion in 2008, accounting for over 30% of Israel's exports. Revenue from the Israeli diamond industry generates approximately $1 billion annually in funding for the Israeli military/security industry, a military which stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. According to the UN based Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) only "rough diamonds used by rebel movements or their allies to finance conflict aimed at undermining legitimate governments" can be classed as conflict or blood diamonds. Even though there is no legal or widely agreed definition of a conflict free diamond, jewellers, other vested interests in the diamond industry and some NGOs refer to all other diamonds as conflict free diamonds, regardless of what human rights violations they may be funding . Approximately 50% of all gem-quality diamonds in dollar terms are processed in Israel. These de facto blood diamonds are sold worldwide as conflict free diamonds to unsuspecting consumers who are unaware that their purchase is funding gross human rights violations in Palestine. The KPCS definition of a conflict or blood diamond must be urgently reviewed in order to include all diamonds that fund human rights violations. Further information at: http:/electronicintifada.net/content/diamond-industrys-double-standard-israel/10102 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11170.shtml http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Isareli-Blood-Diamonds/159257804168987?sk=wall http://ipsc.ie/campaigns_diamond_boycott.php#meplet http://australiansforpalestine.com/solutions/bds/products-to-boycott/blood-diamonds
If people took a tiny amount of time to learn about this ugly little industry, they would see it as no better than the drug trade. Only 'drug barons' are held up as 'brutes and exploiters'. By the same Gov's that say nothing about exploitaton and the brutal conditons it takes, in this industry...
Thanks for posting this jack. Additional inforamtion about the diamond industry's double standard available here http://electronicintifada.net/content/diamond-industrys-double-standard-israel/10102 and here https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Israeli-Blood-Diamonds/159257804168987
What a god awful way for a nation to make money. It would have to be one that had almost zero ethics, and respect for exploitation. Does that fit Israel..?
jews have a lot of history with woman token teasing..and they love to run a monopoly game on us all http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05194.html
Is there really anything they won't turn into an industry? Norman Finkelstein is disgusted that the holocaust that he lost his parents to has, by Zionists, been turned into an industry, both corporate and political. I think he is in a good position to speak. We know that Israel always have their hand out to the US tax payer, no matter that many Americans live in poverty, the hands are never cease to be cupped. We know that they do not like to harvest the land, but steal land. We know that they have pre con for trading in human body organs, without permission. And we know they trade in a side of the diamond industry that any decent society should want no part of.
So precious gems are a valuable commodity because of those darned Jews, huh? Or , is your problem how adroitly they manage to create successful industries? Any money that helps the Isrealis prevent/respond to the never-ending rocket/missile/ bomb/ butcher attacks of the enemies around them on their civilian population is MONEY WELL-SPENT, to any coherent human... Bigot much...?
The way you are going, I am going to place your pathetic slurs on ignrore. They are after all IGNORANT.
Good move. Little doggies should not try to run out here with the bigger dogs...they'll always get called on the endless "yapping"...
This is so great and well deserved. Not only do the Israelis have more Oil under their tootsies then the Arabs but Gas too and now Diamonds. G-d is on the jew's side.
Have you noticed how the more one exposes Israel as little more than a collective of ghouls, that the defenders of ghoulish behaviour are soon out of the woodwork, hurling abuse at the one exposing their ghouslish actions? In Israel itself, they just do not permit speakers who say anything the state do not approve of. This is why Finkelstein and Chomsky were barred from getting into Israel. On the internet, these people have no such powers, so, time and again, they must flood forums, and attack the person bringing the message, never debate the content. They must make patently absurd statements, while ignoring all other pertinent facts. It is no coincidence of course. It is not like I sit here wondering just how come, on forums, there are all these whacky Zionists, that always follow a specific formula, on debating forums.
Complete and total horsecrap; Israelis have OPEN DISSENT ALL THE TIME. Absolute political ENEMIES are not barred from the poltical process. "Debating the content" to you, means "everyone must agree with your bullcrap"; most of us delve a bit deeper than your nonsense.