Re-inventing the 1930s: the BDS movement
If you've never heard of the BDS movement, congratulations! Just as in 1930s Germany; Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions seeks to encourage, and to enforce with threats and propaganda, economic discrimination against Jews.
Notionally, of course, it is a movement to support Palestinian rights. If it actually benefited Palestinians, we would give it credit. However, the example of SodaStream, pressured by BDS to close its West Bank factory and lay off hundreds of Arab workers, has gone from strength to strength since relocating to the Negev.
Co-founder of BDS, Omar Barghouti, makes no secret of his wish to destroy Israel. Despite living in Israel; being married to an Israeli and having studied at Tel Aviv University, Barghouti demands that Palestinians practise what he preaches and deprive themselves of all of the benefits that he personally enjoys.
We were delighted to see that the Bundestag has not only branded the BDS movement as antisemitic, but has compared it to the Nazis' campaign in the 1930s to boycott Jewish businesses.
Notionally, of course, it is a movement to support Palestinian rights. If it actually benefited Palestinians, we would give it credit. However, the example of SodaStream, pressured by BDS to close its West Bank factory and lay off hundreds of Arab workers, has gone from strength to strength since relocating to the Negev.
Co-founder of BDS, Omar Barghouti, makes no secret of his wish to destroy Israel. Despite living in Israel; being married to an Israeli and having studied at Tel Aviv University, Barghouti demands that Palestinians practise what he preaches and deprive themselves of all of the benefits that he personally enjoys.
We were delighted to see that the Bundestag has not only branded the BDS movement as antisemitic, but has compared it to the Nazis' campaign in the 1930s to boycott Jewish businesses.