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Source: https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/339960/will-there-be-a-bds-movement-against-the-taliban/
Will There Be a BDS Movement Against the Taliban?
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Dan Schnur - The UN Human Rights Council, which usually devotes most of its time to criticizing Israel for defending itself against terrorist attacks, has called an emergency meeting to examine human rights abuses committed by the Taliban during their takeover of Afghanistan. It's exceedingly improbable that the Council would shift their focus from the imagined transgressions of Israel to the actual atrocities taking place in Afghanistan. But if the leading voices in the BDS movement were so inclined, the Taliban's rampage of violence, misogyny and hate-mongering could present them with an opportunity to demonstrate their concerns about human rights. The much more likely outcome is that while the Taliban destroys a country, terrorizes its people and subjugates its women, the BDSers will remain silent. Then they will return to their hypocritical work of singling out the State of Israel and its people. The writer teaches political communications at UC Berkeley, USC and Pepperdine.