|
Trending Topics
|
Source: http://jcpa.org/anti-semitism-is-the-motivation-for-the-bds/
Anti-Semitism Is the Motivation for the BDS Campaign, Whose Goal Is to Delegitimize Israel
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Amb. Freddy Eytan - Israel is rightly alarmed at the escalating scale of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. BDS constitutes a concrete threat to the future of Israel's economic, academic, cultural, sports and political standing. The BDS movement goes far beyond legitimate criticism, and in essence calls for the dismantling of the Jewish state. Any fair-minded person must contemplate why the BDS movement is focused on the Jewish state, while massacres continue all over the Middle East and are almost completely ignored. The writer, a former Foreign Ministry senior advisor who served in Israel's embassies in Paris and Brussels, was Israel's first Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.