Strong signs of anti-semitism in the BDS movement

[Ken Burch]

76. If they condemn the attack, what difference does it make whether they use the word "antisemitism"?

Obviously, condemnation of the attack in itself is opposition to antisemitism.

It's ridiculous to use something BDS didn't have anything to do with causing to demonize BDS.

And demonizing BDS achieves nothing. It can't lead to a better anti-occupation movement emerging, and it can't lead to change in any of the things the Israeli government has done that ended up creating the BDS movement.

The existence of BDS is the result of legitimate criticism of Israeli security policies being anathemized in the U.S. for decades. It should always have been just as acceptable to criticize the Israeli government for repressive or destructive actions as it is to criticize any other government. There is no reason Israel's political leadership should ever have been given special deference-and it hasn't made Israel any more secure as a country that its leaders WERE given that special deference.