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We cannot ignore link between BDS and anti-Semitism
Zach Schapira, Reuters
Published: 19.01.19, 15:55
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1. BDS Movement is against the existence of Israel
Mark Jeffery Koch ,   Mount Laurel, NJ USA   (01.19.19)
It's important to note that there is a significant difference between those who disagree with some of the policies of Israel's current government (and some of those who disagree include a majority of American Jews) and the BDS movement.

The BDS movement does not support a two State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They support a one State solution where the Palestinian majority would be the government. They do not support the existence of the State of Israel and the movement is filled with a majority of people who engage in the most heinous stereotypes against not only Israel but also against the Jewish people worldwide.

There are some in Israel's right wing who try and debase any Jew who questions Israel's current government and they slur them as "self hating Jews" and these same Israelis call other Israelis who question Netanyahu "traitors." These same people brand everyone who dares to question Israel "an anti-semite." These folks do a great disservice to Israel and world Jewry because a nation that defines itself as the only democracy in the Middle East should not, and must not accuse every single person who questions the government of Israel of being an anti-semite.

There are people who love Israel, the land and people of Israel, and there are hundreds of millions of us, Jew and non-Jew alike, around the world who do. However, those folks that support and march with the BDS movement share the same view of Israel that Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Queda, and Louis Farrakhan do and they must always be called out for what they really are: anti-semites who hate Jews and who believe that the State of Israel does not have the right to exist.
2. Odd logic
Jacob Edelman ,   NYC   (01.19.19)
It is strange how this author twists things to fit his logic. BDS is anti-semitic so we must fight it. Who says BDS is anti-semitic?The same people who oppose Palestinian national aspirations and its legitimate methods of fighting for these rights the same way we all fought against South African Apartheid.You want to stop BDS, stop being racist and extremists in your views!
3. It’s so basic: only the Jewish State gets singled out for
(01.19.19)
Imaginary crimes.
No amount of spinning/ logistic gymnastics can deny pure antisemitic intent behind this abnormality called BDS!
4. If opposing apartheid & evil is Anti Sem. be it
Avi Kleinsloff ,   Berlin   (01.19.19)
5. A foreign country is not a protected class
Jeff   (01.20.19)
And courts have held that an individual’s right to boycott is a protected form of speech, Governments can’t punish someone from exercising that right.
6. Anyone claiming there's apartheid in Israel is my enemy.
(01.20.19)
7. Anti apartheid all the way, what ever it takes.
Ken   (01.19.19)
8. Wait for Democrat US Govt-You will think USA is Cuba/Venezue
Alan ,   SA   (01.20.19)
9. What mischief does Pelosi want to make against IL in Egypt
Alan ,   SA   (01.20.19)
How did Ms Omar a brand new Congresswoman get onto the Foreign Relations Committee
10. Wrong !
(01.20.19)
What discrimination?

Airbnb still accepts listings within the green line.

For years they listed in West Bank and didn't remove the listings until contacted by human rights organizations.

There was no anti-semitism here and your insistence on it only cheapens it when it does happen. Like Pittsburgh.

Enough already !!!
11. Make no mistake
Tim ,   Brighton   (01.20.19)
BDS PRIME motivation is NOT about support whether material or otherwise for Palestinian self determination and statehood and peaceful coexistence

For many at BDS the PRIME motivation it seems is to simply try to cause maximum harm to and undermine Jewish Communities, Jewish Supporters and the Israeli State.

With many driven primarily by mindless vile racist anti Semitic agendas where BDS seems to simply be a convenient vehicle and cover from which to espouse their appaling racial hatred and propaganda
12. BDS must be fought just like they fought the SS/Wehrmacht!
(01.21.19)
13. BDSers like Nazis who blocked people from Jewish stores
Chaim ,   Israel   (01.21.19)
BDSers are like the Nazi thugs who used to block people from patronizing Jewish stores in the 1930s. They should be dealt with as such, in every way.
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