The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) is a bigoted global propaganda campaign against Israel. It is the newest weapon in the ongoing effort to eliminate Israel as the democratic state of the Jewish people. BDS brands itself as a progressive human rights movement, but nothing could be further from the truth. BDS an extremist agenda which is anti-peace, anti-justice, and anti-human rights.
"the real aim of BDS is to bring down the state of Israel... Justice and freedom for Palestinians are incompatible with the existence of the state of Israel." – As'ad Abukhalil, leading BDS activist1
BDS is bigotry. It calls for the elimination Israel and the violation of Jewish rights.
BDS is discriminatory.
BDS undermines peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians.
BDS hurts ordinary Palestinians.
BDS is not new. Extremists have been calling for anti-Jewish, anti-Israel boycotts since the 1930s.
1As'ad AbuKhalil, "A Critique of Norman Finkelstein on BDS," February 17, 2012, at: http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/angry-corner/critique-norman-finkelstein-bds
2BDS Movement, "Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS," July 9, 2005, at ; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," December 16, 1966, at:
3The Avalon Project, "Hamas Covenant 1988," Yale Law School, August 18, 1988, at http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp; Palestinian Media Watch, "Demonization of Jews/Israelis," 2013, at http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=762
4Norman Finkelstein, "Norman Finkelstein on BDS," YouTube, February 15, 2012, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iggdO7C70P8
5Freedom House, "Freedom in the World Report 2013," 2013, at http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-2013
6Thomas Friedman, "Campus Hypocrisy," New York Times, October 16, 2002, at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/16/opinion/campus-hypocrisy.html
7Yair Rosenberg, "Talking to Palestinians Who Won't Talk Back," Tablet Magazine, September 4, 2013, at http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/143517/talking-to-palestinians-who-wont-talk-back
8The Forward, Haaretz, and Nathan Jeffay, "Palestinian workers praise SodaStream – and Scarlett Johansson," Haaretz, February 2, 2014, at http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/1.571948; Christa Case Bryant, "Palestinian workers back Scarlett Johansson's opposition to SodaStream boycott," Christian Science Monitor, January 30, 2014, at http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/2014/0130/Palestinian-workers-back-Scarlett-Johansson-s-opposition-to-SodaStream-boycott-video; Josh Mitnick, "What SodaStream's Palestinian Employees Think About Scarlett Johansson," Gawker, February 1, 2014, at http://gawker.com/what-sodastreams-palestinian-employees-think-about-sca-1513475552; Matthew Kalman, "Bursting Oxfam's West Bank Bubble," Haaretz, February 3, 2014, at http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/outside-edge/.premium-1.572231; Naama Ben-Yaakov, "Rivlin Visits Arab and Jewish Workers at the Barkan Industrial Zone," Indy News Israel, May 28, 2010 at http://www.indynewsisrael.com/rivlin-visits-arab-and-jewish-workers-at-the-barkan-industrial-zone
9Khaled Abu Toameh, "20,000 Palestinians working in settlements, survey finds," Jerusalem Post, August 15, 2013, at http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/20000-Palestinians-working-in-settlements-survey-finds-323222
10PCBS, "Labour Force Survey Annual Report: 2010," April, 2011, at http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1744.pdf; Djamila Ould Khettab, "The Palestinians who work in settlements," Your Middle East, April 15, 2012, at http:/www.yourmiddleeast.com/features/the-palestinians-who-work-in-settlements_6111
11Khaled Abu Toameh, "Number of Palestinian workers in Israel rises," Jerusalem Post, August, 15, 2012, at http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=281320
12Agrexco, "Coral," n.d., at http://www.agrexco.co.il/en/coral.asp
13Jonny Paul and Jeremy Sharon, "UK food retailer’s Israel boycott could harm Palestinians," JPost, April 30, 2012, at http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=268007
14Noam Chomsky, "Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Frank Barat, on Israel/Palestine (4/4)," YouTube, September 22, 2010, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5hY-gffV0M
15Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, "A Survey of Palestine Volume I," P. 31, Government Printer, Palestine, December, 1945 and January,1946
16Mitchell Bard, "The Arab Boycott," Jewish Virtual Library, September 27, 2007, at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Arab_boycott.html
17Yehoshafat Harkabi, Arab Attitudes to Israel, Israel Universities Press, 1974, p. 29, at http://books.google.com/books?id=ocybbUgguOEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false