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“… I have long admired the country,” he said. “I [have] traveled there extensively, both for business and with family, and taken a great interest in its affairs.”

“The values that make Israel such a success are values that matter a great deal to me. I share Israel’s love for freedom and democracy. I admire its tenacious determination when the odds are stacked against it.”

“This insidious, sophisticated and well-oiled movement presents a real strategic danger to Israel, and if it is not halted, not only could it damage the Israeli economy, it could actually position the democratic Jewish state – the only democracy in the Middle East.”

JERUSALEM POST

LONDON – Newly appointed Business Secretary Sajid Javid condemned Britain’s National Union of Students on Monday for supporting a boycott of Israel, declaring bluntly that the group’s recent move to join the BDS movement was not only an isolated view, but one that the government and most of the country did not share.

Addressing UK Israel Business – the bilateral chamber of commerce between the two nations – at its annual awards dinner, Javid added that the student union’s rejection of a motion calling for a boycott of Islamic State last year “spoke volumes.”

He recalled that last December, in his previous government post as culture, media and sport secretary, he had addressed the union and told it that he had “no time for the boycott campaign.” For him, he said, freedom was an absolute concept – and while he was speaking of artistic freedom at the time, he now included the freedom to trade and to go about one’s business in peace.

To prolonged applause, he added, “Today I talk of the idea that underpins the entire political philosophy that I hold – that of free enterprise. It simply does not make sense to say, ‘I believe in the free market,’ so let me be very clear: I do not believe in boycotts, nor, I am proud to say, does my party, my prime minister or, for the most, part my country.”

In a clear message to UK businesses in general, he pledged to do all he could to expand trade, especially with Israel.

“My department… will be working hard to boost Anglo-Israeli trade and investment, and I as business secretary will do anything I can to support and promote it,” he said.

Earlier, he had described the most recent period of trading between the two countries as a “golden era,” adding that what really excited him “are the possibilities for the years that lie ahead.”

Javid, whom some see as a potential Conservative Party leader and future prime minister, reflected on his long-term appreciation of and support for Israel.

He noted that over the past 67 years, Israel had made business boom in the barren desert.

“It’s one of the many reasons I have long admired the country,” he said. “I [have] traveled there extensively, both for business and with family, and taken a great interest in its affairs.”

He concluded that “the values that make Israel such a success are values that matter a great deal to me. I share Israel’s love for freedom and democracy. I admire its tenacious determination when the odds are stacked against it.”

Also at the dinner, Sir Harry Solomon, the former chairman of one of the UK’s largest food companies, received the British Israeli Business’s Lifetime Achievement award.

In his subsequent comments, he warned that the Israeli economy was under threat from the rapidly expanding growth of the BDS movement.

“This insidious, sophisticated and well-oiled movement presents a real strategic danger to Israel, and if it is not halted, not only could it damage the Israeli economy, it could actually position the democratic Jewish state – the only democracy in the Middle East – as the South Africa of 2020.”

That, in fact, is the clear intention of the BDS movement, he stated.

Appealing to his businessmen, he said that “whatever our personal views may be of some of the policies of the current Israeli government, we must fight against this [movement]…. Bilateral trade with Israel is essential to help counter the threat from this dangerous organization.”

Other awards at the dinner went to British and Israeli companies.

Low-cost airline Easyjet was named British company of the year, with what will soon become 37 departures a week to Europe carrying more than half a million passengers a year. The Israeli company of the year was Orbotech, which produces automated optical inspection systems for producers of electronic components.

The award for most promising company of the year went to Zeek, which is behind a mobile application helping consumers sell their unwanted gift vouchers and store credits to other customers at a discount. And the Israeli listed company of the year was XLMedia, an online performance marketing company that attracts paying users from multiple online and mobile channels and directs

9 thoughts on “UK business minister vows to expand trade with Israel”
  1. Apparently they can’t detect what the mighty God is about to do to Israel. May many gather in Israel for this. The 1883 eruption of Krakatau will be nothing compared to the tsunamis wall of water about to hit that place.
    it’s only a matter of time Israel. God’s had it with you.

  2. Who is this a-hole and why should we care? It’s extremely laughable that this person and others like him expect to force people to respect the war criminal jewish democratic state.

  3. Thank god I am not English. Scotland supports the Palestinians and their flag flies above some of our cities.

  4. He is a typical Zio-Britidh politician ! The Rothdchilds have owned the “Ummmpire”,since the early 1800,s, and the British considered themselves “The New Israel “,since Oliver Cromwell’s ,Jew financed Zio-Christain Revolution. See, Yahweh-Britain, Fake Nationalism ,VK Clark,You Tube.

  5. Such fawning,bowing and scraping before Yahweh. This idiot obviously wants the Rothdchilds to make him the next Churchill/Thatcher/,on the controlled Right.

  6. Sadly as we have Zionist Arabs, we also have Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian Zionists too who suck up to the Jews big time. This man is not going to stop me boycotting anything and everything Israeli . And Adelson can go ahead and raise all those millions of pledges for their great satanic mother in Tel Aviv but again I choose what I WANT to BUY and FROM WHOM I want to buy. It is difficult nowadays as most companies in the UK and elsewhere are ALL Jewish owned but I make a point of checking where my purchases are from. For instance as Ramadan approaches, Israel will be flooding the shops/,markets with dates from West Bank Settlements which they pass as ‘Palestinian’. It is very important to avoid these products. Small actions this way grow bigger with awareness and determination on our part.
    The Jews still believe they are the world’s saviour, the Light unto the world and al that claptrap and that only THEY know what is best for the entire world, under their despotic hegemony which time and again proves how undemocratic they are and how virulently opposed they are to Freedom of choice, justice, truth and racial tolerance, constantly whingeing and whining about their perceived victimhood and their over played and boring anti Semiticism mantra that they enjoy using as an emotional blackmail tool as well as being threatening
    Sajid Jamil is an affront and an embarrassment to most Asians and Africans. Africa would not have succeeded in getting rid of Apartheid if it had not been for the worldwide boycott movement which he does not want Israel to go through!!
    Also he is unjust and incorrect in referring to occupied Palestine as a barren desert. Palestine has always had a thriving agricultural history, with Olive Trees, Orange Orchards, date Palms and other vegetation that it excelled in and exported until the Jews usurped their land, their resources, flattened their farmlands, their homes with Israeli bulldozers, razing them to the ground and then claiming the land was barren!
    Jamil is a LIAR and his type of Asian Zionists makes me sick. We have enough of them in Pakistan and unfortunately here in the UK, especially those that have made a lot of money here which by the way only JEWS will allow them to. In the USA you have your Kosher Nostra Mafia and I am certain we too have a similar outfit here in the UK where prosperous businesses are answerable to Jewish Kosher taxes and a nod from an approving Rabbi
    Israel is not a democracy and does not practice freedom for all. It is a racist exclusive Military Nuclear armed tyrannical Occupying Entity that receives BILLIONS from other countries taxpayers which help it to grow economically and build on its WMDS/Military Arsenal, and exploiting local labour forces that it sees as third class citizens with Palestinians at the bottom of the pile and African Jews not far behind them

  7. Frankly absurd…here are the facts:
    “It is not only in dubious ancient mythology that Israel is founded. A state so founded had to create its own modern mythology from the start. One such piece of modern mythology which has become well rooted in western perceptions is that Jewish pioneers “made the desert bloom” , that by their know how and hard work, they transformed an uncultivable, mountainous, swampy and arid land into fertile and productive fields. Dr Moishe Saltiel, a highly qualified and experienced engineer, agronomist and water engineer, who emigrated from Greece to Palestine in 1932, has shown the facts tell a different story. Dr Saltiel’s researches show that in 1945, according to British Mandatory statistics, the cultivated area of Palestine was 920,000 hectares while, according to a survey in 1946, there were 60,000 cultivable hectares in the Golan Heights. By the 1980’s, the total cultivated area of the same land – Israel, West Bank, the Gaza strip and Golan – was 650,000 hectares – a third less than at the time of the establishment of Israel.
    Exactly contrary to the mythology, cultivated land in the Negev [desert] has actually been turned into desert. Before the establishment of Israel, the Bedouin had for centuries cultivated land wherever water was to be found, in even the most arid areas of the Negev desert. Forty years after the establishment of Israel, less than half the previously fertile land in the Negev was under cultivation. The Bedouin had been displaced and the area became a major base for the Israeli army, for large industrial zones, including the site of the huge complex where Israeli nuclear arms are manufactured, and a dumping ground for toxic waste. ”
    Extract from: “Palestine an Inescapable Duty” – by David Watkins

  8. Does someone keep a list of all of these opportunists, who are sucking up to Israel?

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