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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/As-I-See-It-Two-cheers-for-Britains-BDS-ban-445425
Two Cheers for Britain's BDS Ban
(Jerusalem Post) Melanie Phillips - British Prime Minister David Cameron is taking action against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. New government guidance will prevent any public body such as municipal councils from imposing a boycott on a member of the World Trade Organization, to which Israel belongs. Democracy does not require a local council to busy itself in foreign policy matters. It does not require public bodies to behave in a discriminatory manner by singling out Israel for treatment afforded to no other country. And "ethical investment" hardly entails supporting Palestinian dictatorships and the proposed ethnic cleansing of the Jews from their own ancient homeland. BDS is a campaign of mass bullying and intimidation, sending threatening mobs into supermarkets, lecture theaters and concert halls intent on harassment and censorship under the guise of human rights. Many British Jews feel intimidated and threatened by BDS because they understand it to be nothing less than the Western front in the war of extermination directed at Israel. No other country is subjected to such a campaign built on grotesque lies about its behavior designed to turn the Israelis into devils in the Western public mind. There is no boycott campaign against either Hamas or the Palestinian Authority which persecute and tyrannize their populations, jail dissidents and throw homosexuals off the roofs of tall buildings. The BDS brigade is mute on the Palestinians' abuse of each other, as well as their hysterical incitement against and mass murder of Israeli Jews. BDS is attempting to destroy the only state in the Middle East which actually upholds human rights, and whose only crime is to exist at all as the homeland of the Jewish people.