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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/bds-proves-once-again-that-its-all-about-the-anti-semitism/
BDS Is All about Anti-Semitism
(JNS) Jonathan S. Tobin - Irish novelist Sally Rooney thinks that she's an advocate for human rights. Ben and Jerry believe they are righteous advocates for social justice. Yet despite their well-advertised good intentions, they are promoting hatred against Jews. They refuse to acknowledge that backing the BDS movement that seeks Israel's destruction is inherently anti-Semitic. The goal of BDS isn't to adjust Israel's policies towards the West Bank and the Hamas terrorist state in Gaza or to advocate for Palestinian independence as part of a two-state solution. Its aim is the eradication of Israel, the one Jewish state on the planet. Rooney signed a letter in May which spoke of 1948 (and not 1967, when Israel came into possession of the West Bank as part of a defensive war) as the beginning of "Israeli settler colonial rule" and referred to Israel's attempts to defend its citizens against 4,000 terrorist rockets fired by Hamas in Gaza as a "massacre of Palestinians." It's no accident that Israel is the country that is always singled out by so-called human-rights advocates for its alleged crimes even though other nations, which are actually tyrannies, get ignored. Israel is the only nation in the world that has spawned a worldwide movement that aims at its destruction. Only Jews and Jewish rights are treated in this manner, which says that BDS is inherently anti-Semitic. In much of the mainstream media, BDS is still treated like a legitimate protest rather than anti-Semitism. But those who think that only Israel's efforts to defend itself against the Palestinian war on its existence are the most intolerable acts happening anywhere on the planet mustn't be allowed to pose as do-gooders. They are complicit in a hate campaign that essentially justifies terrorist violence.