British telecom firm severs ties with Israeli counterparts

[ProgressiveMuslim]

UK's FreedomCall informs Israeli company of decision via email, blames Gaza operation

Meir Orbach Published: 12.31.08, 20:04 / Israel Money


British telecommunications firm FreedomCall has terminated its cooperation with Israel's MobileMax due to the IDF operation in Gaza.

"We received an email from the British company informing us that it is severing all ties with us and any other Israeli company following Israel's strike in Gaza," said CEO Raanan Cohen.

"We weren't expecting this from them and there was no prior warning. I don't intend to appeal to them or answer the letter."

The email from FreedomCall said, "As a result of the Israeli government action in the last few days we will no longer be in a position to consider doing business with yourself or any other Israeli company."

MobileMax, established in 2004, produces a program providing cellular phones with inexpensive international service.

http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3648346,00.html

[drmeow]

1. GOOD!

[Captain Needa]

2. Good for the Brits!

[LeftishBrit]

8. It's not 'the Brits'; it's one private phone company

I had never heard of them till I read this item.

[DogPoundPup]

3. Concert by pro-Israel singer scrapped in Mauritius

PORT-LOUIS, Mauritius (AFP) – A concert in Mauritius featuring French Jewish singer Enrico Macias has been cancelled because he took part in a pro-Israel rally, the organiser announced Friday.

Organiser Lab Entertainment "finds itself in a situation where holding the concert is seriously compromised if not impossible ...for security reasons but also to avoid a situation which could tarnish the image of our island," it said. The concert was scheduled for January 23.

At issue was Macias' participation in a pro-Israel rally in Paris this month amid the ongoing raids on Gaza, said a Lab Entertainment lawyer, Askok Radakissoon.

"This initiative was condemned by Mauritian political leaders and Islamic groups," he said, adding officials in the capital Port-Louis had also threatened not to allow the concert to take place.

The Indian Ocean island state announced last week it was freezing the activities of Israel's honorary consul to protest the Gaza raids.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090116/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazamusicmauritiusfrance

[ProgressiveMuslim]

4. Hopefully this will spread. Israel should be treated as a pariah state. nt

[coruscate]

7. Hell yes!

[EFerrari]

5. Good for them.

[High Plains]

6. Bravo. We should all be taking the actions we can.

[bemildred]

9. Fatwa for boycott Israeli goods

LUCKNOW: The Dar-ul-Ifta of the Islamic Centre of India, Firangi Mahal issued a fatwa (edict) here on Saturday which says the way the government of Israel is killing Palestinians, including innocent women and children in Gaza, the Muslims across the world should boycott Israeli goods.

The fatwa was issued on a question sent to Dar-ul-Ifta by one Majid Jilani requesting it to explain, in the light of shariat (Islamic law), would the Muslims be justified to boycott Israeli goods manufactured by Israeli companies in USA and other parts of the world because the profits earned by these companies are being used against the Muslims?

Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali in his fatwa said, "Since Islam treats all Muslims, irrespective of their race, colour, nation etc, as brothers therefore, it is their religious obligation to realise their sufferings and miseries.'' The entire world is ashamed at the genocide of innocent Palestinians and in this hour of grave tragedy it has become obligatory for the Muslims to extend all possible help to the Palestinians, snap all relations with Israel and resort to total boycott of Israeli goods, the fatwa adds.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Lucknow/Fatwa_for_boycott_Israeli_goods/rssarticleshow/3995481.cms

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10. Bosnians protest against Gaza offensive

sarajevo: Around 100 prominent members of Bosnia’s cultural community demonstrated here on Saturday in support of the people of Gaza and to call on Israel to stop the offensive.

The protestors, wearing yellow armbands marked with the word “Gaza” in black, formed a line next to a former football pitch which was turned into a cemetery during the 1992-1995 siege of Sarajevo.

“Yellow armbands which Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust are not meant as a provocation,” film director Jasmila Zbanic told journalists.

“What we want is to remind the people of Israel of Jewish suffering and to call on them to show solidarity with the suffering of civilians in Gaza,” said Zbanic, who took the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006.

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=United+Kingdom+%26+Europe&month=January2009&file=World_News200901185512.xml

[okiru109]

11. reminds me of when the world got fed up with the crimes of South Africa

hopefully this is only just the beginning :bounce: