Thread by @BDSmovement

A few weeks ago, former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert called for an international “boycott” of the current Israeli PM Netanyahu.

Former Israeli PM Olmert called on the “international community,” particularly Israel’s “friends,” to “speak out in full force against the Israeli government” because it is “anti Israel.” He hoped the US and UK would “reevaluate their relationship with the government of Israel.”

Olmert, accused of horrific war crimes against Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza, also called on leaders to “show contempt for the prime minister of Israel” and to “boycott” him because Netanyahu is “about to destroy the democratic and ethical foundations of the state of Israel.”

Israeli leaders’ colonial hypocrisy and delusions seem to be limitless. Desperately striving to save their worn mask of colonial-settlers’ “democracy,” they try to hide the “original sin” of ethnic cleansing of Indigenous Palestinians and to erase us from the present.

It was the “liberal” Zionists, after all, who perpetrated the 1948 Nakba of planned dispossession of Palestinians, destruction of hundreds of villages, massacres and rape. “Liberal” oppressors are not better ones. Settler colonialism in all forms is patently unethical.

The BDS movement, while reiterating its call for pressure on the hypocritical International Criminal Court to prosecute Olmert and all Israeli leaders for war crimes, agrees that Israel’s far-right government and PM must face international “contempt” and “boycott.”

But so must Israel’s entire regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid.

We call for escalating #BDS to #DismantleApartheid and #SettlerColonialism.