B´Tselem: Where is the morality?

Dror Eyder
November 08, 2010
Yisrael HaYom (Hebrew)
To read the original Hebrew article, click here [page 25].
[Translation by NGO Monitor]

Here is a quote from the “Bubbes and Zaydes for Peace” (BZP) website: "First launched in Toronto in 2005, ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar... This year, IAW occurs in the wake of Israel's barbaric assault against the people of Gaza. Lectures, films, and actions will make the point that these latest massacres further confirm the true nature of Israeli Apartheid. IAW 2009 will continue to build and strengthen the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement at a global level."

Based on their declaration, Bubbes and Zaydes supports and seeks to strengthen the BDS movement. The BDS movement began at the infamous Durban Conference in 2001, which became an anti-Israel show. The final declaration of the NGO Forum at Durban called for “a policy of complete and total isolation of Israel as an apartheid state …” This statement has become the strategy of the BDS movement, which has been promoting boycotts against Israel since 2005.

A visit to the Global BDS Movement website reveals, for example, that the strategy of sanctions and boycotts against Israel are designed to ensure “that Israeli apartheid and occupation become unprofitable and finally untenable, catalyze an anti-Zionist movement in Israeli society and boost the morale of those struggling under Occupation.” In other words, the strategy is not just one of international activity to delegitimize Israel, but also undermining of the basic consensus of Israeli society. The second section, “support those who struggle under the Occupation” also grants indirect support and legitimacy to the armed struggle against Israel, that is to say, indirect support for terrorism.

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