Roudy
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Well other than symbolic meaningless BS. Eight years of delusion while Israel prospers and gets stringer. LOL
The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing
As it happens, there is a web page that exhaustively tracks BDS achievements. It contains such triumphal entries as Andreas Oberg, Swedish guitarist, cancels gig in Tel Aviv, heeding BDS activists appeals, and Ten talented young harpists bow out of the International Harp Contest. But for the most part, the entries consist of gestures similar to the York student-federation vote, which is to say: rhetorical attacks from activist groups, unions and academic organizations with no power to influence trade policy.
From the slogans emitted by BDS champions (including, at times, Canadas own Naomi Klein), one would think that BDS was on the cusp of bringing Israel to its knees. Yet since 2004 the period corresponding to the lifespan of the BDS movement Israels economy generally has been booming, especially in the areas of telecommunications, computer technology, aviation, specialty medical equipment, military hardware and natural gas.
The BDS campaign is also morally hypocritical. Not all of Israels policies especially in regard to settlement construction are defensible. Yet in humanitarian terms, nothing Israel does to Palestinians comprises even so much as a rounding error on the horrors perpetrated by such nations as Syria, Iran and Sudan against their own citizens. The plight of Gazan religious and political dissenters not to mention gays and women in the Hamas-run enclave is especially notable, given that many of the same activists who champion BDS also have championed the Boat to Gaza movement and other efforts to equip and legitimize Hamas.
But eight years in, the movement has accomplished nothing. Indeed, less than nothing: For it is thanks to BDS, and similar gestures of anti-Israel antipathy (especially at the UN), that many Israelis including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have become convinced that their country will always be the victim of a vicious moral double standard. If Mr. Netanyahu has struck a more standoffish, militant, uncompromising tone than his predecessors when dealing with the international community, it is largely because he has come to see the hatred of his country as irrational and unremitting.
- See more at: The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing | Foundation for Defense of Democracies
The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing
As it happens, there is a web page that exhaustively tracks BDS achievements. It contains such triumphal entries as Andreas Oberg, Swedish guitarist, cancels gig in Tel Aviv, heeding BDS activists appeals, and Ten talented young harpists bow out of the International Harp Contest. But for the most part, the entries consist of gestures similar to the York student-federation vote, which is to say: rhetorical attacks from activist groups, unions and academic organizations with no power to influence trade policy.
From the slogans emitted by BDS champions (including, at times, Canadas own Naomi Klein), one would think that BDS was on the cusp of bringing Israel to its knees. Yet since 2004 the period corresponding to the lifespan of the BDS movement Israels economy generally has been booming, especially in the areas of telecommunications, computer technology, aviation, specialty medical equipment, military hardware and natural gas.
The BDS campaign is also morally hypocritical. Not all of Israels policies especially in regard to settlement construction are defensible. Yet in humanitarian terms, nothing Israel does to Palestinians comprises even so much as a rounding error on the horrors perpetrated by such nations as Syria, Iran and Sudan against their own citizens. The plight of Gazan religious and political dissenters not to mention gays and women in the Hamas-run enclave is especially notable, given that many of the same activists who champion BDS also have championed the Boat to Gaza movement and other efforts to equip and legitimize Hamas.
But eight years in, the movement has accomplished nothing. Indeed, less than nothing: For it is thanks to BDS, and similar gestures of anti-Israel antipathy (especially at the UN), that many Israelis including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have become convinced that their country will always be the victim of a vicious moral double standard. If Mr. Netanyahu has struck a more standoffish, militant, uncompromising tone than his predecessors when dealing with the international community, it is largely because he has come to see the hatred of his country as irrational and unremitting.
- See more at: The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing | Foundation for Defense of Democracies
