Is B.D.S. Anti-Semitic? A Closer Look at the Boycott Israel Campaign
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Modeled on the fight against the apartheid regime in South Africa, it calls for countries, businesses and universities to sever ties with Israel unless it meets three demands:
• Ending its occupation of all land captured in 1967 and dismantling the wall and fence that separate Israel from much of the West Bank, dividing many Palestinian neighborhoods.
Granting “full equality” to Palestinian citizens of Israel.
• Assuring the right of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to the homes and properties from which they or their ancestors were displaced in the wars that led to the establishment of Israel in 1948
Seems a little extreme doesn't it? These "policy changes" amount to the complete destruction of Israel.
In an interview, Omar Barghouti, a top B.D.S. spokesman, called the Israeli laws racist and exclusionary. A democratic state could still provide asylum for Jewish refugees, showing “some sensitivity to the Jewish experience,” he said, “but it cannot be a racist law that says only Jews benefit.” Asked if that means Jews cannot have their own state, he said, “Not in Palestine.”
Omar is more than a spokesman....he's the founder of BDS. He's not calling for "policy changes"....he's calling for the destruction of Israel and the return of all their land to Palestinians. He thinks the Jewish people should be allowed to stay as refugees if the Palestinians want to let them.
Let's call a spade a spade here....BDS supports the annihilation of Israel. I for one am glad our Congress has the sense to not support another holocaust.