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Source: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-halevi-bds-is-immoral-20160628-snap-story.html
Why the Anti-Israel Boycott Movement Is an Immoral Threat to Peace
(Los Angeles Times) Yossi Klein Halevi - As the Middle East devours itself, leaving behind the worst human devastation since World War II, an international movement seeks to delegitimize Israel, the region's only intact society. Israel alone in the Mideast has an independent judiciary, a free press, universal healthcare and religious freedom. Yet the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, or BDS, has singled out the Jewish state as the world's most pressing problem. BDS perpetuates the lie that Israel is primarily to blame for the absence of a Palestinian state - rather than the repeated rejection by Palestinian leaders of peace plans presented over the decades. As the Palestinian media broadcast on a daily basis, their goal isn't two states living in peace but a single Arab-majority state in which Jews would be at best a tolerated minority. The writer is a senior fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.