Peter, on the debate about BDS, I liked this comment from another blog.
"Anti-Palestinians should be commended for their honesty.
Back in the day, say 5-10 years ago, anti-Palestinians disqualified BDS because of some bad actors who also backed BDS. No matter how many times Omar Barghouti denounced those claiming to speak in his name, BD…
Peter, on the debate about BDS, I liked this comment from another blog.
"Anti-Palestinians should be commended for their honesty.
Back in the day, say 5-10 years ago, anti-Palestinians disqualified BDS because of some bad actors who also backed BDS. No matter how many times Omar Barghouti denounced those claiming to speak in his name, BDS was in the wrong. (The same standard was never applied by the same people to their own Zionism: even though, Israeli Zionism is dominated by unabashedly racist settlers, the same American liberal Zionists who disqualified BDS on these grounds had no problem holding on to their own Zionism.)
But now, the anti-Palestinians have come out with their honest position: the Palestinians have no voice at all. It doesn’t matter what they say or what they mean. All that is irrelevant. The only relevant question is: “how do the Israelis hear what you say?”
Flippancy, satire, repudiation, ignoring are the only possible responses to such hypocritical attempts at silencing."
Boo hoo hoo the BDS movement is such a victim, even as they constantly spread hatred, anti-Semitism and violence. No one's buying the victim act any more, Germany sees BDS for what it is: hate.
Peter, on the debate about BDS, I liked this comment from another blog.
"Anti-Palestinians should be commended for their honesty.
Back in the day, say 5-10 years ago, anti-Palestinians disqualified BDS because of some bad actors who also backed BDS. No matter how many times Omar Barghouti denounced those claiming to speak in his name, BDS was in the wrong. (The same standard was never applied by the same people to their own Zionism: even though, Israeli Zionism is dominated by unabashedly racist settlers, the same American liberal Zionists who disqualified BDS on these grounds had no problem holding on to their own Zionism.)
But now, the anti-Palestinians have come out with their honest position: the Palestinians have no voice at all. It doesn’t matter what they say or what they mean. All that is irrelevant. The only relevant question is: “how do the Israelis hear what you say?”
Flippancy, satire, repudiation, ignoring are the only possible responses to such hypocritical attempts at silencing."
Boo hoo hoo the BDS movement is such a victim, even as they constantly spread hatred, anti-Semitism and violence. No one's buying the victim act any more, Germany sees BDS for what it is: hate.