BDS is coming home!
JVL Introduction
Boycott is all the rage in Israel today!
Army reservists are refusing to serve, world leaders are being called on to shun Israeli government ministers. Israeli diplomats are quitting, capital is divesting.
All to save the Israeli Supreme Court which, in 2015, “enthusiastically approved the anti-democratic law in 2015, calling boycotts a form of ‘political terror’, ‘bigoted, dishonest, and shameful’, and an attempt to ‘annihilate’ the Jewish state.”
Amjad Iraqi exposes the double standards of the protest movement: It is fine to shun Israeli officials and cut off financial ties when mainstream Jews call for it, political terror if the Palestinians do so.
In the hope that they will learn from their own actions, Iraqi extends a welcoming hand to Israel’s new BDS activists.
This article was originally published by +972 Magazine,the Landline on Sun 19 Mar 2023. Read the original here.
Israelis, welcome to BDS
Though not named as such, BDS tactics have been central to Israel’s anti-government protests. And the hypocrisy is not lost on Palestinians.
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So many emotions as I read this. So exciting to see Israelis protesting against their own Government and calling for BDS, then anger at the Israeli Government’s law to make protesters liable, giving the Government and its supporters free rein to sue them, it’s the sort of Law that Fascist Governments bring out to stop protesting. I also felt the emotions of anticipation and hope, that the day that the world come together and put BDS in place and like South Africa the pressure mounts on its Government and in the end, they are voted out and a new Government does all the right things to get a solution that’s fair and just to the Palestinians. I have a vision of a perfect way forward and I hope and pray that it will one day happen.
Ridiculous analogy. The reason so many are protesting is because they are committed Zionists. It’s a people’s protest, left right and centrists, so not entirely political, based on love and concern for Israel and the perceived danger to the Jewish Nation emanating from the extreme internal rather than external policies of an awful right-wing government. It’s also painful for Jews in the Diaspora to watch from the sidelines but a compromise is certain which we all wish for.
BDS on the other hand is the (failed) attempt by obsessed Israel haters to weaken and subsequently erase the Jewish State from without.