Is BDS just anti-Semitism in disguise?
After Paris, Whither the BDS Movement? "Showing no empathy and spinning crazy theories, Israel’s fiercest critics show that it’s Jews, not the Jewish state, they despise"
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I attend a university that supports BDS. This support mostly manifests itself with Jewish students going to hospitals. I and many other Jewish students have been physically attacked. I've seen much talk of how "Hitler was right" and seen "death to the Jews" chanted by "peace activists." My grandfather told me that similar things had been going on in europe in the 1930's europe (though back then it was more widespread happening everywhere not just on university campuses, though it's disturbing that now it's an intellectual movement) They once rioted beating up Jewish students and destroyed the hillel club (jewish club where jews chill and hang out in a "safe" space) and the school's university did NOTHING about it. If that's not anti-semitic, I don't know what is. but enough of me, I'll let them speak for themselves.
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Yes. If you accuse Israel for being unfair to women, there are dozens of other countries that do much worse.
If you accuse Israel of being unfair to LGBT’s, there are dozens of other countries that do much worse.
Everything that they accuse Israel of doing is much worse in other countries. By boycotting Israel and Israel ONLY, it is proof that it is anti-Semitism.
BDS isn't just anti-semitism in disguise but anti-semitism is part of it. Israeli settlement policies in the West Bank deserve to be criticized but lots of countries have bad policies and BDS supporters aren't calling for boycotts of those countries. The suggestion that Iarael's policies toward Palestinians is worse than Saudi policies toward women or Egyptian policies toward Copts or gays is ludicrous. So why is Israel singled out for its bad policies? It's either the bigotry of low expectations when it comes to Arab and Muslim countries. Or it's veiled anti-semitism.
Well, considering that it is supported by many moderate Jews, including some in Israel and some who are Holocaust survivors or relatives of Holocaust victims, I think not. Of course those who oppose it would argue that these are all "self-hating Jews" but when your paranoia about racism extends to insulting members of your own race that disagree with you then that is very sad.
That is not to say that nobody supporting the movement is antisemitic. Every political movement attracts some followers with base motives. For the rest, even if you disagree with them you must accept that, at worst, this is a blind spot. Put the other way, those who support Israel are not all anti-Arab racists or bigoted Jewish supremacists. But some are.
That is not to say that nobody supporting the movement is antisemitic. Every political movement attracts some followers with base motives. For the rest, even if you disagree with them you must accept that, at worst, this is a blind spot. Put the other way, those who support Israel are not all anti-Arab racists or bigoted Jewish supremacists. But some are.
