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Post by Guest Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:52 am

The anti-Semitic campaign to shun Israeli goods embodies the radicalism that threatens everyone

When Jewish Human Rights Watch was founded a year ago to combat anti-Semitism, we made confronting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement – which encourages everyone from church groups to investors and companies to turn their backs on Israel and its products – our priority.

In particular, we took three local councils – Leicester, Swansea and Gwynedd – to court for passing BDS motions, and it was on the back of those legal actions that the Government has decided to move to ban such boycotts at the local level. To that end, new guidance is now being announced . We applaud the Government for this forthright and unequivocal response. BDS claims it protests against Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, and models itself on the anti-apartheid boycott of South Africa. But polls show that the Jewish community believes it to constitute anti-Semitism. Why?

First, BDS aims to eradicate Israel completely – its founder, Omar Barghouti, openly declared that “we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine”. Second, the boycotters target the Jewish state alone. BDS does not go after any other liberal democracy or British ally, let alone any dictatorship; only Israel, the Jew among nations. Third, wherever BDS surfaces, it is accompanied by harassment of Jews – whether it’s Jewish students who retreat from campus life for fear of intimidation, or kosher food being forcibly removed from supermarket shelves, or Jewish trade union members who see their unions become vehicles for anti-Jewish hate, or a Jewish-American reggae performer being booted from a music festival.

Fourth, anyone remotely sensitive to Jewish history will know that boycotts have been the instrument of Jewish persecution for a millennium. The last century taught the Jews full well that what begins with a boycott by a few thugs or unknown academics does not end there. If “never again” is to mean anything, it is that BDS cannot be tolerated in a decent and civilised society. Consequently, the Government’s announcement has generally been welcomed. But it has provoked a backlash from some, who claim it will limit councils’ freedom to make “ethical investments”, and that it is an “attack on local democracy”. Neither of these claims can withstand scrutiny.

If boycotting a liberal democracy like Israel in support of the brutal dictatorships of Hamas in Gaza and the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the West Bank – neither of which have held anything resembling an election in years and routinely execute political opponents, in line with the rest of the Arab world – constitutes an ethical investment, then something in the moral compass is suspiciously askew. More intriguingly, Leicester council’s legal defence against our claim conceded in open court that the council’s BDS motion was not and could not be binding and was impracticable. In other words, these motions do not actually serve any practical purpose; they are merely symbolic. So this isn’t about ethical investment at all, but about sending messages – and the message that BDS motions broadcast is received by the Jewish community loud and clear.

What, though, of the claim that the new guidance is an “attack on local democracy”? Anti-Semitism and harassment of Jews are not democratic, and neither is extremism – the sort of extremism exhibited by BDS supporters who parade pictures of themselves with Hamas terrorists. These offensive motions harm community relations, and they are also an enormous waste of local councils’ time and money. Ordinary citizens want their councils to focus on providing the highest quality local services at the lowest cost, not to expend resources on defending divisive BDS resolutions in court. It beggars belief that some local councils can complain about austerity but still find large sums of money to wage legal battles in defence of motions they themselves admit have no practical effect. With this sort of prioritisation, no wonder they are in the red.

Citizens also don’t want their councils doing foreign policy. That outlet for “local democracy” is through the election of local MPs who decide at Westminster on our collective policy toward foreign nations. That’s why we have a civil service and a government.

But BDS is not just about Jews or foreign policy. It’s about the radicalism that threatens us all. Jihadi John hated Jews before becoming the face of the Islamic State (Isil); Alexe Kotey participated in a pro-Hamas flotilla before becoming an Isil executioner; and the Bataclan Theatre in Paris was for years a target of BDS protests and abortive terrorist attacks before Isil slaughtered 89 innocents there last November.
BDS and anti-Semitism may come for the Jews first, but the radicalism behind them has us all in its sights.

Jonathan Neumann is a director of Jewish Human Rights Watch

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/12162084/Jews-know-that-a-boycott-is-just-the-beginning.html

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Post by The Devil, You Know Fri Feb 19, 2016 11:57 am

will those people also be boycotting the numerous medical treatments developed by israel?

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Post by Guest Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:01 pm

The Devil, You Know wrote:will those people also be boycotting the numerous medical treatments developed by israel?



Of course they will not say so, as there are some of the leading pioneers in the field from Israel

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Post by The Devil, You Know Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:10 pm

Didge wrote:
The Devil, You Know wrote:will those people also be boycotting the numerous medical treatments developed by israel?



Of course they will not say so, as there are some of the leading pioneers in the field from Israel
lets hope none of them develop cancer and have to be put to the test then.
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Post by Guest Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:19 pm

The Devil, You Know wrote:
Didge wrote:


Of course they will not say so, as there are some of the leading pioneers in the field from Israel
lets hope none of them develop cancer and have to be put to the test then.


Interesting point.

Of course they also blindly forget that Israel treats many Palestinians in their hospitals, I wonder if their hate of Israel thought of how this would be effected?

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Post by The Devil, You Know Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:24 pm

Didge wrote:
The Devil, You Know wrote:
lets hope none of them develop cancer and have to be put to the test then.


Interesting point.

Of course they also blindly forget that Israel treats many Palestinians in their hospitals, I wonder if their hate of Israel thought of how this would be effected?
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