The Israeli Federation should be boycotted for its defence and representation of a colonialist power with a record for breaking international laws.

Fadda, your libelous mischaracterization of Israel is immaterial to the news about this vote. It is outrageous that: (1) the "moderators" allowed Fadda's inaccurate, slanderous, bigoted Comment which only detracts from the integrity of this news story. For the record, the free press in Israel doesn't "represent" the government, a nation which insures a far freer journalistic discourse than in ANY OTHER COUNTRY in the middle-east. The government even permits the dissemination of lies and libels from anti-Zionistic reporters like Fadda to the outside world. In "Palestine" Hamas and Fatah maim honest reporters (explaining much of the twisted reporting coming from Ramallah, East Jerusalem, and Gaza). Very little of what you have been told about the true nature of the Palestinians and Israelis is unbiased and accurate. (2) Israel is not colonialist - on the contrary - it was established like all of the other British and French middle-east countries post-WWI (its uniqueness is that it was the re-establishment of the Jewish nation in its ancestral homeland). In Jordan and Egypt's aggressive war to destroy Israel, they lost the territory Arafat, with KGB assistance, afterwards branded the new "Palestine" and "Palestinian people". There was no such "people" when Muslim Jordan and Egypt governed the territories between 1948-1967. Historically and today, the most colonial force in the middle-east (and the enemy of Jewish self-determination or Zionism) is ISLAMISM - political Islam - a force which continues to quest to conquer the entire world through economics, terror intimidation, and religious control. (3) Britain's Col. Richard Kemp testified before the UN Human Rights Council that upon his review, the Israel Defence Forces are "the most humane army in the history of warfare." Palestinian Hamas Party, however, IS responsible for war crimes for using Palestinian civilians as human shields, and for rocketing Israeli civilians. Only after the corrupt politicians ruling Gaza and West Bank Arabs stop inciting Palestinian Muslims to attack Israeli people, demonstrate that they can co-exist peacefully, and cease hostility and intimidation towards (even local Palestinian) journalists to yank YOUR leftist chains to incite animosity against Israel, will the Israelis be able to lower their defences. (4) I regard it as outrageous that the readers (and/or moderators) of this site let it go 7-weeks without challenging Fadda's despicable remark.