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Vandalism - South Africa section

Gouncbeatduke (talk) arbitrarily removed a paragraph that I contributed in the South Africa section. I have also added the following to this editor's talk page:
I would appreciate it if you refrain from deleting my recent contribution (complete with citations) to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions page for no valid reason. Furthermore I do not appreciate your false allegation that my contribution is vandalism, nor do I appreciate your unwarranted name calling. I am neither banned nor a sockpuppet. Any further revisions of the paragraph by yourself will be referred to Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. Clivel 0 (talk) 23:45, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be some confusion on the part of both Gouncbeatduke (talk) and myself. It was not clear to me from the comment that accompanied Gouncbeatduke's reversion that the "banned sockpuppet" referred to was a User:I invented "it's not you, it's me", as the reversion was applied to my changes, I assumed that the reference was to me.

However from the history of the page it can be seen that not only did I not revert the changes that Gouncbeatduke objected to by I invented "it's not you, it's me" but these took place 10 days prior to my edit and also included intervening edits. I believe that the correct course of action would have been for Gouncbeatduke to just re-insert the deleted paragraph to the current version rather than reverting to some versions back; this is something that I would have no objection to. Clivel 0 (talk) 15:47, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Boycott Our Enemies, Not Israel Act"

This new legislation will provide list of companies doing biz with .il. I afraid it will be rather 'certifaied' list of BDS targtets. http://lamborn.house.gov/2015-press-releases/congressmen-lamborn-and-desantis-introduce-legislation-to-prevent-boycotts-of-israel/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.208.5.99 (talk) 06:44, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Copy/paste error

The sections Cultural and Cultural boycott are nearly identical. Can someone please delete one? 217.37.166.142 (talk) 16:34, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --GHcool (talk) 22:12, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Adding to failures

Hi, I cant seem to edit the page, but if someone can edit the failures that can ...I think it would be good to note in failures quotes from these sources:

"a wave of anti-BDS legislation is sweeping the U.S. The most high-profile so far are the bipartisan amendments to congressional bills for Trade Promotion Authority. They establish the “discourage[ing]” of boycotts as one of the U.S.’s many goals in trade negotiations with European countries." http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/18/illinois-passes-historic-anti-bds-bill-as-congress-mulls-similar-moves/

"The US Congress is preparing a counter offensive to the tsunami of boycotts against Israel" http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4648715,00.html

"...the Maryland legislation now condemns the BDS movement as “a discriminatory and racist movement,”" - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/03/maryland-financial-penalties#sthash.foQMQhxy.dpuf

"Far from being isolated, Israel's exports are reaching record highs and it attracts billions of dollars in foreign investment. In the weeks that Israel was supposedly under a boycott siege, Japan's Rakuten agreed to buy the start-up Viber for $900 million and Ireland's Covidien sealed a deal to buy Given Imaging for $860 million. China's Bright Food was in talks to buy control of Israel's biggest food maker Tnuva, and IBM, Lockheed-Martin and ERM all announced plans to open research and development centers in Israel. The Jewish state became the first non-European member of the nuclear research consortium CERN and was admitted as an observer to the Pacific Alliance, a free-trade bloc of five Latin American countries." http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303426304579402771597851680

These all seem to be included in the set of failures of the BDS movement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.178.187.17 (talk) 12:56, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Olympia co-op case

The Olympia co-op case is listed in the achievements section. Today the court ruled that the SLAPP ruling was unconstitutional and the case will go back to a lower court - [1]. Not sure what to do with the text. Leave it in place and add this? Move it to the failure section (if the court ruling in their favor was an achievement, this is a failure) or what. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 01:54, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a strong opinion on the matter, but if it was up to me, I'd suggest deleting the whole thing altogether. It isn't very notable. --GHcool (talk) 00:32, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Despite student governments voting to BDS Israel, no university has actually done so

So my question is, should this fact be put into the failure section, the section that lists the universities that have voted on it (such as saying "Despite student governments voting to divest from Israel, no university has actually done so as the resolutions are all non-binding." as an example), should it be put in both sections? What are your thoughts. I really believe that this distinction should be highlighted. Not doing so makes it seem like the "achievements" of student governments voting to divest has an economic impact, which so far, it has not. As for sources:

In the United States, Israel's closest ally, the decade-old boycott-divestment-sanctions movement, or BDS, is making its strongest inroads on college campuses. No U.S. school has sold off stock and none is expected to do so anytime soon. - http://news.yahoo.com/anti-israel-divestment-push-gains-traction-us-colleges-050637043.html

No university administration or endowment investment committee has agreed to withdraw funds from companies whose products are used in connection with the occupation. Divestment resolutions “have no practical outcomes in terms of university investment policies,” said Oren Segal, director of the ADL’s Center on Extremism. - http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.652673 Knightmare72589 (talk) 21:21, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]