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Howard Lovy
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Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (#BDS) has zero economic impact on Israel. Israel's doing just fine. What it does, is target Jews on campus and Jewish businesses with harassment, vandalism, and worse. The only thing BDS does is give "legitimate" cover to anti-Jewish campaigns.
But let me ask this: if #BDS advocates can refrain from anti-Semitic attacks, tell me what the end game of BDS is? What would have to happen for a boycott to end? A withdrawal to pre-'67 borders? An end to Israel? Only #BDS advocates contribute to this thread please. I'm curious.
When I was in college in the '80s, I participated in anti-apartheid rallies. Because, you know, there really was apartheid in S. Africa. The end game to sanctions was an end to apartheid. It worked. Seeing as there is no actual apartheid in Israel, what is the #BDS end game?
I'm going to sign off. It's past my bedtime. I'll look at the results in the morning. RIP my mentions.
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Howard Lovy
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Not surprised at #IsraelElections results. The Israeli left died in 2000, when Ehud Barak offered Palestinians their own state and they responded with the 2nd Intifada and another generation of bloodshed. That's when I walked away from covering the Mideast for almost 20 years.
I was among the Oslo hopefuls, who thought peace in our time was upon us. I was managing editor @JTAnews in 2000, so had a front-row seat, directing coverage during Camp David, when Arafat chose violence rather than a state. Afterward, my solution was to stop caring for decades.
Many factors contributed to breakdown of talks in 2000. Some blame Ariel Sharon, and his visit to the Temple Mount, as the cause. But that was just the final result of a long-simmering unwillingness by many sides, but especially Palestinian leaders, to make sacrifices for peace.
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Howard Lovy
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#BDS is a lie built upon a lie. First lie: Israel, a multiracial democracy, is an "apartheid" state. Second lie: boycotts, which helped end real apartheid in S. Africa, will magically work in a non-apartheid state. Result: BDS, in practice, is another tool to bully diaspora Jews.
Divestment and boycotts helped convince de Klerk to work with Mandela and dismantle apartheid, which truly was a system of minority rule over a majority population. Israel has no such system. The Palestinian conflict is external, not internal. So, what is the end goal of #BDS?
Right now, there is no Palestinian Nelson Mandela, if we want to go with the flawed comparison. There is no peace partner. Economic, academic, and entertainment boycotts do nothing to bring Israel and its neighbors together, and only serve as "virtue signalling" for anti-Semites.
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Howard Lovy
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Hi, @RashidaTlaib. Fellow Michigander here. So, when you say "Free Palestine," I am assuming you are referring to freeing the Palestinians from the Iran-funded dictatorial regime of Hamas, where you either submit to their will or die. In that, I am with you all the way.
But if, @RashidaTlaib, you are referring to this generations-long promise to Palestinians that if they just accept their refugee status even longer, they will be able to drive the Jews out of their homeland, then that slogan of "Free Palestine" is nothing but a long con.
There's no "Free Palestine" because their leaders did not want one, @RashidaTlaib. I was among the hopeful during the Oslo process. I helped cover the '00 talks between Barak and Arafat, when Palestinians were again offered a state and instead chose another generation of violence
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The Rantings of @RashidaTlaib bit.ly/2W2VfL5
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@julie4nw @Rob_Bulll @NickyAACampbell @TrumpkinOut @TheMJAP @TheTrashiesUK @hopenothate @uaf @AntiRacismDay I support campaigning against anti-Semites like Nick Griffin. However, @julie4nw you appear to incite discrimination,hatred against Jews,Israelis & the Jewish State of #Israel by advocating & campaigning for antisemitic #BDS,like the NAZI boycott against Jewish businesses.
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1) #Israel released a report today called "Terrorists in Suits" about the secret links between the BDS movement and terrorism.

I thought it would be interesting to draw some connections between the report and other things we hear.

www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel…
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On its face, most people can understand that idea.

bdsmovement.net/faqs#collapse1…
3) But BDS is illegal in much of the United States.

"Around half of the US’s 50 states have anti-BDS laws, which in various ways prohibit granting state contracts to companies which boycott Israel."

jpost.com/Israel-News/Is…
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