Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The Battle Over BDS


L. MICHAEL HAGER, counterpunch.org

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Extract:
While Netanyahu’s agents lobby Congress in an all out effort to overturn the Iran nuclear deal, Israeli strategists have opened a second front: an escalating propaganda war to derail BDS [see].
Inspired by the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa, BDS is a global movement that seeks to end Israel’s longstanding impunity for its continuing ethnic cleansing, colonization, racial discrimination and military occupation—international crimes that have denied Palestinians their fundamental rights of freedom, equality and self-determination. ...
In BDS, one searches in vain for an attack on Jews. The movement targets the violations of human rights by the Israeli government, not the state itself or its predominately Jewish citizens. Contrary to the government’s official hasbara (public diplomacy), the movement has never argued for the “delegitimization of Israel” nor condemned Jews as Jews. ... 

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