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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, (BDS) are the triple threat, typically by liberal politicians, academia and businesses, against the State of Israel. It opposes Israel's existence as a whole.[1] Its aim is to "bring down the state of Israel."[2][3] The 'immediate' aim is to delegitimize Israel.[4]

Its tactics are based on the steps taken to address actuak racial segregation policies in South Africa in the 1970s, but BDS is proposed as a punishment for Israel not caving to "Palestinian" demands. In general, the "BDS movement" has politicized the debate within the United States regarding the United States' role in bringing peace to that region.

Obama ordered labeling of Israel products made in the West Bank as not made in Israel, a move welcomed by BDS activists and which follows similar moves by European leftists.

ADL explains: [5]

In championing Palestinian nationhood, BDS literally denies Jews the same right. It ignores Israel’s repeated initiatives for peace over the last two decades, and the real Israeli security concerns that cannot be dismissed.  Nor does BDS seek to create conditions for Israeli-Palestinian rapprochement – it does not support negotiations, reconciliation or a two-state solution. It bars Israeli-Palestinian engagement on the professional, academic or cultural level and prevents “normalization” activity with others of differing opinions (such as engaging in dialogue with supporters of Israel). Oftentimes, BDS campaigns give rise to tensions in communities – particularly on college campuses – that can result in harassment or intimidation of Jews and Israel supporters, including overt anti-Semitic expression and acts. This isn't some abstraction. We consistently see this play out again and again across the country.


Activists explain BDS intimidation tactics: Because BDS is a fundamentally radical and anti-peace movement at heart, its supporters are often prone to displays of violence and intimidation designed to bully others into compliance or silence. The activists have tracked examples of BDS proponents using intimidation and threats, both on the Internet and in the real world, to pursue their goals. BDS intimidation can often include committing crimes as well.[6]

It has been described and proved to be Anti-Semitic.[7][8][9][10][11] The BDS movement fuels intolerance and hate.[12]

Some pointed to Nazi comparison to BDS.[13]

Terrorizing

It has been accused of economic terrorism.[14] Asides from that, it systematically terrorize who do not toe its hate line.

Professor:[1]

The amazing thing is that this movement does not conceal its objectives or actions: It is a movement that opposes Israel's existence within any borders, whose supporters wave signs with Nazi symbols, and promotes conspiracy theories on every issue on the agenda, accusing Israel of anything and everything from the September 11 attacks to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. On campuses, BDS terrorizes any lecturer who merely contemplates teaching a course that offers a balanced view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not only will doing so put any future promotions at risk but their physical safety and ability to get through a seminar will also be threatened, ultimately leading to their firing.

The BDS movement seeks to remove the Jewish or Zionist voice from the non-Israeli space by any means necessary, regardless of whether that requires connecting to radical leftist or radical right-wing cells.

Terror ties

BDS has been tied with terror group PFLP[15], and it has raised more eyebrows in 2019 with revelations of wider ties to various terror groups and clear goal of annihilation of Israel.[16]

In 2020, a BDS Palestinian activist, Dr. Issam Hijjawi was arrested for allegedly committing preparatory acts of terrorism in connection with the New Irish Republican Army.[17]

BDS and Neo-Nazis, Hitlerism

In 2015, swastikas followed BDS resolution at Cal Davis[18].

Memri[6] has documented massive Incitement Against Jews Within BDS And Pro-Palestinian Facebook Groups.[19]

Neo-Nazi parties are supporting Palestinian and Hezbollah terrorism, as well as BDS.[20]

Writer pointed out how German neo-Nazis unmask BDS in supporting it[21].

In 2019, PayPal closed Nazi party account linked to Hezbollah, Assad, BDS.[22]

In April 2020, a group of vicious anti-Israel activists in Germany disrupted an online Holocaust memorial by posting Nazi imagery and pornographic content during a conversation with the survivors of the genocide[23]

In 2021, a South African BDS advocate told students, 'Hitler committed no crime.'[24]

Some infamous BDS supporters

Lara Collab, a former doctor, radical racist Arab anti-Semite from Ohio, who has posted for long, against Jews [Yahoodi in Arabic] and who has declared she'd give Jews the wrong medicine, in her words purposely give all the yahood the wrong meds, has been a BDS supporter. Her liscence was revoked.[25][26][27]

In 2020, lecturer Jew-hater Stavit Sinai was convicted for violent assault. Berlin daily B.Z. titled its article about the BDS activists at the trial "Disgusting hatred of Jews in and in front of the Berlin courtroom."[28]

One of the earlier (2009) BDS pushers via complete falsehoods is Neve Gordon.

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An extremist,[29] hugging, shielding Arafat in the height of 2002 Intifadah massacres,[30] lying as if he "doesn't" know who is responsible for the terror massacres,[31] accused of inciting anti-Semitism in Arab press by invoking old libels,[32] described as kind of a fascist type, [33] and who has been chastising, punishing his students for daring to challenge him on his distortion,[34] inciting vengeful treatment against a student who dared challenged his gross lie of his defining a road of all Israelis, Israelis-roads, both Arab and Jewish, as supposedly "just" Jewish. Thus inciting hatred.[35] (With a former al-Jazeera guy, he co-authored a "book"[34] promoted by two known hateful over-a-decade-propagandists[36] both wrote earlier against denouncing Hamas for its routine method of using its people as human shields.)

See also:

BDS & genocide

While BDS propagstes false myths of so called "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide"[37], the BDS campaign is rather in fact a prelude to real genocide [38].

Hypocrisy

In 2016, an Arab wrote a public letter to a radical who supports BDS, stating The demise of Israel as a Jewish state would extinguish the only hope remaining for progressive Arabs like him.[39]

An ardent BDS promoter, was one of the first demagogues using the BLM protests end of May/2020 hijacking it and taking advantage of frustration to incite against Israel.

She has been terming rock-throwers and molotov-cocktails throwers as "peaceful" and as "martyrs". In 2015 she arranged kids meeting with accused terrorist.

In Nov. 2019 she offered a prayer for slain Islamic-Jihad top arch-terrorist Abu al-Ata, but the sincere-activist removed tweet after exposed, but screenshot captured.

In December 29, 2019 she posted against adding police to safeguard Jews after anti Jewish murders. Because supposedly her "argument" was, it's going to be on the expense of defending blacks. But by June-2020 with BLM, she called for defunding police [40].

Ben & Jerry's

Racist Arab-Muslim Linda Sarsour a hard promoter of BDS, in 2018 Ben & Jerry's radical terrorists Hamas, Hezbollah supporter "activist," Anuradha Mittal, linked with Sarsour[41] and after May-2021 Guardian of Walls being pressured by anti-Israel tweeters (led by such popular Arab-Palestinian anti-Semitic tweeter who dehumanized Israelis as non-humans[42]), in July 2021 the company annouced they will stop selling in "territories" after revealing they were about to stop all sales to all of Israel. [43][44][45][46] While in fact, Ben & Jerry’s bid to punish the so-called “occupier” nation of Israel will hurt the very people the company claimed it wanted to help: the Arab-Palestinians. Costing their jobs.[47]

The company's Anuradha Mittal has been publishing columns defending Hezbollah and supporting U.S. funding to Hamas.[41]

It was also revealed that Ben & Jerry's "board" AKA chaired by afromentioned Mittal invited Omar Shakir, a professional BDS activist, to advise them, rejected calls to hear experts on other side. Expert concludes: This ain't about the settlements.[48]

In response to the ban:[49]
Susannah Levin, an Albany, NY graphic designer whose company served Ben & Jerry sine 2000, posted on her Facebook page this week: “Effective immediately, I have quit my job of 21 years at Ben & Jerry’s, over the statement on Israel. If you want to get an idea of why, please watch this wonderful video by the great Rabbi Jonathon Sacks, z”l. He explains how anti-Zionism IS the new anti-Semitism. My company’s response is part of this despicable trend and I will have no part of it.”

Responding, Florida, Texas [50] NJ and IL[51] [52] threatened Ben & Jerry's with anti-BDS.


A writer wrote:[2]

... anyone who opposes racism, lies, incitement, human rights abuses should boycott your ice cream.

For even if you did not have racist or anti-Semitic intentions – which is actually the same thing - your boycott is another success story for the racist and anti-Semitic campaign that opposes the very existence of just one state in the whole world: the Jewish state.

This is what you should know about with campaign, which is led by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).

This campaign has no interest in peace nor in ending the occupation.

Yes, there are pure-hearted and honest people who support a peaceful, violence-free solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and who also support this campaign. But they have been deceived.

They do not know the facts. And in order to know the facts, you should listen to what the creators and leaders of this campaign have to say.

Omar Barghouti also openly declared that "no Palestinian will agree to a Jewish state." Similar remarks have come from Ali Abunimah, who pronounced that the two-state solution has "no chance of being implemented."

The same is true of Prof. As'ad AbuKhalil, who wrote that he agreed that "the real aim of BDS is to bring down the state of Israel" and that this "should be stated as an unambiguous goal."

In fact, there is not a single key activist in the boycott campaign that supports a fair solution of two states for two peoples.

Here and there, the leaders of the campaign are content with a boycott solely of the territories.

But every boycott serves their campaign, spreading tales and perpetuating the conflict and suffering for both peoples.

Is this the struggle you support?

We need peace based on the compromises that have been proposed since the conflict began.

In fact, allow me to give you a brief review of the history:

As early as 1937, the Peel Commission proposed a solution that gave Jews just 4% of the original Palestine. The leader of the Palestinian Arabs at the time was the Nazi Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini.

He said no. And when a decade later this became the United Nations Partition Plan, the mufti was there again to lead the refusals.

This same refusal led to both the Palestinian Nakba, when 715,000 people became what are today known as Palestinians, and a Jewish Nakba, when 850,000 Jews were forced to leave or be deported from Arab nations where they lived.

There have also been compromise proposals in recent decades. In 2000, Bill Clinton offered the Palestinians a state on about 96% of the territories, with additional land from Israel to make up the shortfall.

The Palestinians again said no. Several years passed, and in 2008 they said no again to a similar proposal by then-prime minister Ehud Olmert.

They said no again in 2014 to a proposal by John Kerry and Barack Obama.

It may have been possible to achieve peace. There were indeed here and there Palestinian leaders who were inclined to compromise. But the leaders of the boycott campaign continued in the path of the mufti, standing up to oppose any compromise.

So I must ask again: Is this the campaign you support?

You can visit Israel. In fact, you should.

Israel is a vibrant democracy. Israel itself has a majority who support a historic compromise to end the conflict.

There is also strong criticism among some members of the population, including some people who sit in Knesset, over the continuation of the settlement project.

But the settlements were never the obstacle to peace. Remember the settlements in the Gaza Strip that were all evacuated by the Israeli government?

In fact, even today the settlements take up just a tiny percentage of the Palestinian territories.

Anyone who supports a solution of two states for two peoples knows that Arabs will continue to live in Israel, where they comprise 20% of the population, and a small percentage of Jews will be able to keep living in the Palestinian state.

As such, your boycott decision does not serve human rights or peace or reconciliation or compromise.

Your decision only serves the campaign of incitement against the existence of one country out of all the countries of the world: The State of Israel.

Your decision is also contrary to the winds that are blowing today in most Arab countries, where they know all too well that Palestinian refusal is the real problem and not Israel.

According to a survey conducted by the Zogby Institute a few months ago, most residents of Arab countries support normalization with Israel.

And what about you? To which side do you belong? Are you on the side of those who want peace and normalization or for those who cultivate boycotts and hatred?


Activists flew Anti-BDS banner flown over Ben & Jerry's headquarters reading: 'Serve Ice Cream, Not Hate - #BDSisHATE'.[53]

See also

A BDS-er, Profile of Hezbollah supporter: racist Ben Norton

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Prof. Udi Lebel, " Yes, BDS is a terrorist group", ILH, July 25, 2021. President Herzog was right to call BDS a terrorist' organization. After all, it seeks to exclude Jewish or Zionist voices from the non-Israeli space by any means necessary. Yet for some reason, in Israel, the issue has been downplayed.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Ben-Dror Yemini, "Ben & Jerry's handed a victory to the campaign of hate." The directors of the ice cream company have fallen prey to a mendacious campaign whose leaders openly declare that they want to eradicate Israel, the only Jewish state in the world; in truth, it is the Palestinians who have consistently rejected every proposal for peace. YNet, July 20, 2021.
  3. In Their Own Words Stop BDS
  4. BDS: The Global Campaign to Delegitimize Israel
  5. Letter to the New York Times Magazine Regarding BDS and Politics, Anti-Defamation League (April, 2019)
  6. BDS Intimidation
  7. CAMERA: BACKGROUNDER: The Intrinsic Antisemitism of BDS. May 12, 2020
  8. "Germany labels Israel boycott movement BDS anti-Semitic". BBC, May 17, 2019
  9. Talia Kaplan, "Anti-Semitism in US linked to BDS movement, new NGO-backed report finds". Fox News, December, 2019
  10. BDS is Antisemitic, AJC Sep 23, 2019.
  11. Eradicating the Anti-Semitic BDS Movement, A. Milstein, April 7, 2020
  12. P. Miller, "Swastikas on Campus: Anti-Semitism Blamed on Anti-Israel Academics" The Observer, March 10, 2016. The BDS movement fuels intolerance and hate on campuses across the country.
  13. When a Nazi comparison makes sense: The BDS movement against Israel Romirowski, The Hill, Aug 22, 2018
  14. Yori Yalon and Ariel Kahana, Herzog calls boycotts of Israel a 'new form of terrorism' President says BDS movement does not seek peace, is taking aim at Israel's economy. ILH, June 21, 2021
  15. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement attracting groups with terrorist ties. Jonathan Schanzer. November 2, 2016 | The Hill
  16. Sixth BDS national conference sheds light on movement’s intentions and terrorist affiliates. By Eliana Rudee. JNS, April 25, 2019 Raising eyebrows within the Jewish and international community, the conference was supported and promoted by the terror-affiliated Palestinian National and Islamic Forces, and attended by leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian Liberation Front.
  17. Benjamin Weisenthal, "UK police arrest Pro-BDS Palestinian activist on terrorism charge." The Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2020 The paper said that Hijjawi was arrested at Heathrow airport and the 62-year-old's house in the Blackhall area of Edinburgh was searched by Scottish police. British authorities arrested the former chairman of the Association of Palestinian Communities in Scotland  Dr. Issam Hijjawi on Saturday for allegedly committing preparatory acts of terrorism in connection with the New Irish Republican Army. He was the 10th person to be charged in a joint Police Service of Northern Ireland and MI5 investigation called Operation Arbacia, The Irish News reported Tuesday.
  18. At Cal Davis, swastikas at Jewish frat house follow BDS resolution. Feb. 1, 2015
  19. [1] [2] Incitement Against Jews Within BDS And Pro-Palestinian Facebook Groups – Part II By C.R. Rublin October 29, 2019 Source: MEMRI The Facebook groups examined in this report are focused on promoting the Palestinian cause and Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. In this report we present posts that appeared in eight BDS groups between January 2016 and July 2019, with explicit and blatant antisemitic incitement against Jews and Judaism without any context linking them to Israel or its policies
  20. Neo-Nazi parties are supporting Palestinian and Hezbollah terrorism, as well as BDS. By United with Israel Staff Nov.24.2019
  21. German neo-Nazis unmask BDS By Petra Marquardt-Bigman May 31, 2019, 5:23 AM This is just one illustration that the party’s claim to represent “the anti-Israel original” doesn’t prevent it from enthusiastically supporting the copycats on the opposite end of the political spectrum. The previously mentioned post complaining about the undemocratic “incitement” against the “Israel-critical campaign poster” includes a suggestion to turn the taking down of one of the posters into a fundraising opportunity for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that targets Israel
  22. Benjamin Weinthal, "Exclusive: PayPal closes Nazi party account linked to Hezbollah, Assad, BDS". Jerusalem Post, Jan 7, 2019 A range of German and American politicians over the years have urged PayPal to terminate the The Third Way.
  23. BDS activists disrupt Holocaust event with Hitler imagery. Itamar Eichner. Published: 04.21.20. Ynet During an online memorial in honor of the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted a Zoom chat with survivors by posting pornography, Nazi images and shouting anti-Semitic slogans A group of pro-Palestinian activists in Germany disrupted an online Holocaust memorial by posting Nazi imagery and pornographic content during a conversation with the survivors of the genocide
  24. Outrage as South African BDS Advocate Tells Students, 'Hitler Committed No Crime', Algemeiner, April 8, 2021
  25. Lara Kollab - Canary Mission Overview - Lara Kollab stated she would give Jews the “wrong meds" and that supporters of Israel should have their “immune cells killed." She has called for violence against Jews, spread anti-Semitism, trivialized the Holocaust, defended the terror organization Hamas and expressed support for terrorists on Twitter. She has also compared Israel to Nazi Germany, spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and hatred of Israel, and accused Israel of exploiting the Holocaust. In December 2018, Kollab’s LinkedIn said she graduated from the Touro College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Touro) with a D.O. in 2018. She received a bachelor’s degree from John Carroll University (JCU) in 2013. Kollab was removed from medical residencies in 2018 and 2019, due to the revelation of her past anti-Semitic tweets and her subsequent conduct. In August 2020, the State Medical Board of Ohio “permanently revoked" Kollab’s medical training certificate following an investigation into violations of conduct that included “a failure...of good moral character" and “[m]aking a false, fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading statement...in relation to the practice of medicine." Kollab’s LinkedIn said that she was a Biology tutor “to high school and college kids in her hometown" since 2013, a Mentor to “1st, 2nd, and 3rd year medical students" since 2015, and a “Big Sister" at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America since 2016. On October 8, 2017, Kollab said on Facebook she was working at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago as part of her fourth year of medical school. Kollab is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and a supporter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Kollab is also affiliated with the anti-Israel organization Al Awda and with its co-founder, Abbas Hamideh. Kollab is connected to other social media users, whose feeds are replete with anti-Jewish posts. These connections are detailed at the bottom of this profile....
  26. Rachel Wolf, Marcy Oster, "Ex-Cleveland Clinic resident makes antisemitic posts, has license revoked". JTA, JPost, August 22, 2020 “hahha ewww.. ill purposely give all the yahood [Jews] the wrong meds…,” Kollab tweeted in January 2012. When she was accepted to Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, a private Jewish university in New York City, she deleted the tweets and comments, but some were already preserved as screenshots. In an August 2013 post, Kollab wrote in Arabic, “May Allah take back [end the lives] of the Jews so we stop being forced to go to those unclean ones.” in December 2018, after the posts were discovered, Kollab was fired.
  27. "Cleveland hospital denounces anti-Semitic comments made by former resident." By Diana Stancy Correll. Washington Examiner, January 02, 2019 The comments made by Lara Kollab ... In one tweet from 2012, she said she would “purposely give all the yahood the wrong meds,” using an Arabic reference for Jews. She also claimed that same year that the Holocaust was “exaggerated and the victimization of the jews (ignoring the others killed) is overdone.” “I don't mean to sound insensitive but I have a REALLY hard time feeling bad about Holocaust seeing as the ppl who were in it now kill my ppl," she tweeted in 2012.
  28. Benjamin Weinthal, "BDS ‘Jew-hater’ convicted for violent assault in Germany." The Jerusalem Post, August 5, 2020 Conviction appears to be the first criminal penalty for violent BDS activity. In a dramatic setback to the claim of the BDS campaign that it is a nonviolent initiative targeting the Jewish state, the Berlin court declared Stavit Sinai guilty for her violent conduct. The Berlin daily B.Z. titled its article about the BDS activists at the trial: “It is so shameful. Disgusting hatred of Jews in and in front of the Berlin courtroom.” Sinai’s conviction appears to be the first criminal penalty for violent BDS activity in Germany. The paper reported about the anti-Israel extremist: “Lecturer Stavit S. is guilty. She hit the door of the hall ‘wildly’ from the outside, injuring two people... Either she pays €450, or sits in prison for 30 days.”
  29. "Let Hagai Elad speak." Neve Dromi, Haaretz, Jan 20, 2021. This is what happened to me: The solid right-wing position I hold today was formed when I was a student of Prof. Niv [Neve] Gordon, an extreme leftist. The discussions with him made me realize that he represents a completely wrong position. B'Tselem is an organization that arouses disgust...
  30. Murderer of 'Ghandi' Jailed, but Protectors still Free, INN, Sep. 23, 2008. Gordon as human shield for murderers [3], "Beyond Chutzpah: A Tale of Slander, Plagiarism, and Holocaust Revisionism," TI, Dec 2006. By Susan L. Rosenbluth
  31. E. Weiss,, Ynet, Feb.3.2002 Niv [Neve] Gordon, in the photo with Arafat, tells Ynet: "I do not know who is responsible for the attacks..." Asked if he felt comfortable embracing the chairman of the Palestinian Authority, who is responsible for terrorism in Israel..
  32. Prof. Niv [Neve] Gordon of Ben-Gurion University, wrote an article for the Al Jazeera network ... Liran Levy 01/04/18. Current affairs and news, political. The head of the policy department at the "If You Will" movement and a graduate of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, Alon Schwartzer, responded to the publication, saying: "The use of the term 'Passover massacre' by Niv [Neve] Gordon is not accidental. Its purpose is to direct the world of connotations to the most horrific anti-Semitic blood libels against the Jews who have falsely held that Jews practice killing children on Passover to prepare matzah. "Thousands of Jews have been murdered for these lies over the generations and a professor belonging to the Israeli academy is now dancing for it. Gordon is also known for calling for a boycott of Israel. We call on outgoing university president Rebecca Carmi to make amends for her personal career There is only one thing worse than anti-Semitism and that is the Jews who feed it." [4][5]
  33. Hypocrites at their worst, A. Roll, September 4, 2009.

    The debates surrounding the wrongful act of a lecturer at Ben-Gurion University are not forgotten. Niv Gordon, a left-wing extremist from the fascist genre, infamous as the human shield of "The Man with the Hair on His Face" Yasser Arafat, in a Muqata in Ramallah during "Operation Defensive Shield", did so again and published an article in the Los Angeles Times calling for a boycott.. This is not about academic freedom, as they call for a boycott of the State of Israel and the academic institutions in it, first and foremost, thus constraining the existence of the Israeli academy and the destruction of the academy and the freedom of speech in it as a result.

    This action by Gordon joins the actions of (many) .. to exert dictatorial-fascist pressure on Israel because their arguments no longer stand up to public logic. For the past 20 years, hundreds and thousands of organizations have been working to fund anti-Semitic anti-Israelis overseas in order to bring the State of Israel to its knees and eliminate it as a sovereign, Jewish, independent entity.
  34. 34.0 34.1 'Nicola Perugini, distorter, typical inciter.' Aug 9, 2020. http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/259883
  35. Studying with Prof. Neve Gordon at the University of Michigan, Jacob Shrybman, Israel Behind the News, August 25, 2009.
  36. https://www.theisraelgroup.org/post/anti-israel-editor-nishidani
  37. BDS Myth: Israel Commits Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide. By Maccabee Task Force July 19, 2016 Yes, they actually go there. The BDSers accuse the greatest victims of ethnic cleansing of committing ethnic cleansing. And they accuse the greatest victims of genocide of perpetrating genocide. You sure can’t blame BDS for lacking nerve. Both accusations are disgusting lies. Let’s start with ethnic cleansing. The crux of the complaint is that after Israel declared its independence in 1948 it went to work expelling its Arabs residents in order to create an exclusively Jewish state. In the process, 700,000 Arabs were forced from their homes. The truth is the exact opposite. In 1947, the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. This Jewish state was to have a sizeable Arab minority. Palestine’s Jews enthusiastically accepted this compromise. They actually danced in the streets to celebrate. The Arabs had a different reaction. The leaders of Palestine’s Arabs and the surrounding Arab states all rejected the partition of Palestine into two states. Instead, they vowed to destroy the Jewish state. The day after the UN vote, Palestinian Arabs launched a sustained series of guerilla attacks against their Jewish neighbors. And when the British officially departed Palestine in May of 1948, five neighboring Arab states invaded Israel. Before the Arabs launched this war to destroy Israel, there were no Palestinian refugees – not one. The Palestinian refugee crisis was the direct result of this Arab aggression. Wars are terrifying, and the large majority of Palestinian refugees simply fled the fighting as it approached their villages. In the limited cases where Israel expelled Arabs, it did so because of a clear military necessity created by this war. Having to flee one’s home is a terrible tragedy. No one should deny the human suffering experienced by these hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees. But recognizing their suffering does not require us to blindly blame Israel for it. The ultimate responsibility for the Palestinian refugee crisis rests with those Arab leaders who rejected Israel’s creation and launched a war to destroy it. The claim of genocide is just as easily disproven. Simply out, Israel has never had a policy of intentionally harming Palestinian civilians. Quite to the contrary, even during wartime Israel goes to extraordinary measures to protect Palestinian civilians. These efforts to safeguard Palestinian lives – efforts that expose Israeli soldiers to far greater risk – are the exact opposite of genocide. These are the policies of a government that values all human life. The math could not be clearer. Genocides – the intentional mass murder of certain groups of people – shrink the population of the targeted group. Hitler’s Holocaust, for example, reduced Europe’s Jewish population from 9.5 million in 1933 to 3.5 million in 1950. How much has the Palestinian population shrunk as the result of Israeli policies? It hasn’t shrunk at all. Quite to the contrary, since the birth of Israel there has been a sustained Palestinian population boom. In 1947, there were approximately 1.2 million Arabs living in the British Mandate for Palestine. Today — despite the fact that many hundreds of thousands have left this territory — that original number has grown to approximately 6 million (4.4 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza plus 1.8 million Arab citizens of the Israel). There are actually more Arabs living in Israel today than were living in all of Palestine when the state of Israel was created. Simply put, if Israel is trying to commit genocide against the Palestinians, it’s doing a terrible job of it.
  38. BDS campaign a prelude to genocide. By Devin Sper. JewishAZ, May 14, 2014 ... certainly unaware of the ultimate goal of the movement’s Palestinian organizers, for whom the campaign to delegitimize Israel is not an end unto itself. As Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wrote: “Slander is the prelude to murder.” Israel’s enemies demonize Israel as a necessary prelude to her annihilation. Stated simply, their goal is genocide. What, after all, does Hamas intend in calling for the “obliteration” of Israel, in its charter? Aren’t the continual chants of “Death to Israel” by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and his supporters a call for genocide? What else does former Iranian President Ahmedinijad’s call for Israel to be “wiped off the map” mean if not genocide against its Jewish inhabitants? Unmasking the Palestinian goal of genocide is the key to preventing its actualization... That the Palestinians have not succeeded in their ultimate goal of exterminating the Jews of Israel does not make their attempts any less heinous. Every time Israel’s enemies call for her destruction, we need to point out that they are in essence calling for genocide.  Nor should we accept the characterization of such calls for genocide against the Jews of Israel as mere hyperbole. Israel’s enemies have gone well beyond advocating genocide against Israel. Palestinian Arabs have murdered 3,000 Israeli civilians and wounded 25,000 in a campaign of terror lasting well over a century. Since 1948, the armies of their Arab supporters have killed 20,000 and wounded 100,000 Israeli soldiers. Is there any doubt that every Jew in Israel would have been murdered had Israel lost the war in 1948, 1956 or 1967, or any of the wars of annihilation launched against her? There is no question but that the Palestinians and their allies would have fulfilled their vows of genocide against the Jews, as they in fact did on overrunning Hebron in 1929 and Gush Etzion in 1948. Every future Palestinian atrocity against Israel hands us an opportunity to point out that mass murder of Jews is not merely their tactic, but their goal. Not only do the Palestinians practice and preach genocide against the Jews but, in a demonically cleaver twist, they also accuse the Jews of genocide whenever we defend ourselves against them. Many, especially in endemically anti-Semitic Europe, have proven all too ready to accept such transparent Palestinian slander against Israel at face value... A Palestinian movement identified with its genocidal goal will not be so readily embraced by misguided intellectuals in the media, academia and the arts. In doing so, European elites would no longer assuage their guilt over the Holocaust, but compound it. Their self-righteous hectoring of Israel would be replaced by the extreme discomfort of having to explain their support of a movement bent on genocide and they would soon find themselves a new cause célèbre. The campaign to delegitimize Israel has succeeded until now because it follows the cardinal rules of propaganda: Boil the essence of your idea down to a simple, powerful, memorable slogan (in this case a single word: “occupation”), stay on message and repeat it at every opportunity. I once observed Yasser Arafat’s response to an uncharacteristically difficult question in a TV interview. Ignoring the question completely, Arafat turned directly to the camera and simply said, “Occupation, occupation, occupation!” This slogan had nothing to do with the question nor is “occupation” the root cause of the conflict, but the consistent repetition of this slogan by Palestinian spokesmen over decades has been an extremely effective tool in demonizing Israel. Occupation has become the lens through which most of the world now views the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the root cause of Israel’s pariah status and ever-increasing isolation. Acceptance of the false portrayal of Jews as foreign occupiers in their ancient homeland is the reason that Jewish settlements there are viewed as a violation of international law. Occupation is the original sin justifying every Palestinian atrocity, in the minds of their apologists, as the understandable rage of an occupied people.  ... Palestinian enemy’s campaign against Israel and boil our message down to a single, but in our case true, and even more emotionally powerful word, and repeat it at every opportunity. The answer to “Occupation, occupation, occupation” is “Genocide, genocide, genocide!”
  39. Letter from an Arab to a Jew who supports BDS. The demise of Israel as a Jewish state would extinguish the only hope remaining for progressive Arabs like him. Apr. 8, 2016, 8:29 PM
  40. Profile of BDS promoter (dangerously pro racist anti-Jewish terror; ridiculously contradictory). Aug 3, 2020
  41. 41.0 41.1 Meet Ben & Jerry’s Board Chair: Anti-Israel Activist Has Published Defenses of Hezbollah, Hamas Alana Goodman, Free Beacon, July 23, 2021.

    Anuradha Mittal founded nonprofit that accused Israel of human rights abuses and defended Hezbollah

    (Ben and Jerry's board chairwoman Anuradha Mittal / oaklandinstitute.org)

    Ben & Jerry's board chairwoman isn't your average corporate suit. A social justice warrior who's now under increased scrutiny in the wake of the company's announcement that it will boycott Israel's West Bank and East Jerusalem, she has a lengthy history of left-wing activism that includes publishing columns defending Hezbollah and supporting U.S. funding to Hamas.

    Anuradha Mittal, the leading force behind the ice cream company's decision to stop selling its products in parts of Israel, founded the Oakland Institute, which describes itself as an "independent policy think tank," in 2004 and serves as its executive director. The group has published articles defending Hezbollah and Hamas, terrorist groups that seek the destruction of the Jewish state....

    Ben & Jerry's is under increased scrutiny for its decision to join the anti-Israel boycott movement, which follows criticism over the ice cream maker's partnership with anti-Semitic figures during the Women's March in 2018. At the time, the company defended its work with Linda Sarsour, one of the march leaders who was ousted for anti-Semitism...
  42. BDS-er Typical Veiled Anti-Semite, DP, July 23, 2021. Anti-Israel tweeter (@princessmlokhia) that has 15k and mentioned in JTA article (jta.org/2021/06/16/israel/boycott-israel-no-ben-jerrys-is-boycotting-social-media/amp). On July 3, 2021 tweeted: [Did you count 7 donkeys in these pictures??]عديت ٧ حمير بهالصور؟؟ (And has retweeted from a raw anti-Semite, including on July 11 about K. Roth article in the NYtimes).
  43. Ben & Jerry’s wanted to boycott all of Israel Soon after the announcement that it was boycotting the “Occupied Palestinian Territories”, Anuradha Mittal, a member of its Board of Directors, flipped out on Twitter. The board wanted to boycott Israel in its entirety, but Unilever refused to countenance such a move. “It is stunning that they (Unilever) can say that…” Mittal fumed. Mittal also serves as the Executive Director of the Oakland Institute, a California-based organization that has published reports calling all of present-day Israel, including within its pre-1967 borders, “occupied Palestine”. According to Ms. Mittal, it seems that none of Israel has a right to exist. The board wanted to boycott Israel in its entirety. According to one member, none of Israel has a right to exist.
  44. Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) Tweeted: Just to be clear, @benandjerrys won’t serve ice cream to Jews in Judea & Samaria, but they will enthusiastically endorse avowed racist and antisemite Linda Sarsour? Ok gotcha. Is ok, plenty of great local made ice-creams in Israel! https://t.co/a5JkJHocJk https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1417145341946867713?s=20 July 19, 2021
  45. StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) Tweeted: Palestinian workers have lost their jobs thanks to the decision by @benandjerrys today.  What sort of activist would be happy about this? Someone who hates Jews SO much they’re willing to have their own brethren unemployed.  SICKO 👉🏻 #LindaSarsour https://t.co/G2zlvQtFGA https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1417273246005800966?s=20 July 19, 2021
  46. Racist Arab-Muslim Linda Sarsour and Ben & Jerry's Mittal, DP, July 21, 2021
  47. Ben & Jerry's Anti-Israel Stunt Backfires as Distributor Likely Forced to Fire Palestinian Workers. Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal, July 22, 2021
  48. Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) Tweeted: SCOOP (on @benandjerrys): I've been told by @benandjerrys insider that company's board invited @OmarSShakir, a professional BDS activist, to advise them, rejected calls to hear experts on other side. This ain't about the settlements. July 22, 2021
  49. Ben & Jerry’s Graphic Designer Quits after 21 Years over Boycott, Texas & Oklahoma to Follow David Israel, JP, 14 Av 5781 – July 23, 2021.
  50. Florida and Texas threaten Ben & Jerry's with anti-BDS laws over West Bank pullout, Yahoo News, July 23, 2021
  51. (@kann_news) Tweeted: Ben & Jerry's Storm: The state of Texas has announced it will stop investing in Unilever - Illinois, New Jersey and Florida is considering joining the move. The report of @ AmichaiStein1 In #EveningNews @AmichaiStein1 https://t.co/20jodQ0nqR July 22, 2021
  52. NY, NJ & IL: 3 More States May Divest From Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever, YWN, July 24, 2021
  53. Anti-BDS banner flown over Ben & Jerry's headquarters Arutz Sheva Staff , Jul 26 , 2021. Israeli-American Council flies banner reading 'Serve Ice Cream, Not Hate' over Vermont headquarters of Ben & Jerry's.

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W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."
"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."
The only tweet (July 2014) on the Twitter account of the late American Elan Ganeles - murdered by Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" on Feb 27, 2023 hy"d: "I think you're always going to have tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise."