Eretz Israel is our unforgettable historic homeland...The Jews who will it shall achieve their State...And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind. (Theodor Herzl, DerJudenstaat, 1896)

We offer peace and amity to all the neighbouring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all. The State of Israel is ready to contribute its full share to the peaceful progress and development of the Middle East.
(From Proclamation of the State of Israel, 5 Iyar 5708; 14 May 1948)

With a liberal democratic political system operating under the rule of law, a flourishing market economy producing technological innovation to the benefit of the wider world, and a population as educated and cultured as anywhere in Europe or North America, Israel is a normal Western country with a right to be treated as such in the community of nations.... For the global jihad, Israel may be the first objective. But it will not be the last. (Friends of Israel Initiative)

Monday 1 June 2015

An Ultimate Threat To Israel's Existence

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4663391,00.html
As the execrable Jeff Halper makes clear what he wants Israel's ultimate fate to be, comes a robust must-be-read in full warning about BDS from  Ben-Dror Yemini:
'BDS is a threat to Israel's very existence
.... The industry of lies spun by the BDS movement is convincing more and more people that Israel is the source of evil in the world. Make no mistake: This is not a campaign against settlements. It's a war on the legitimacy of the Jewish state.
 All reasonable forces, from right and left, must act against the economic, academic, and cultural boycott which has become a strategic threat....
.... BDS has been winning the battle for public perception. Those who claim that BDS will not affect the Israeli economy are correct. For now.
The BDS movement has been conducting a campaign for awareness on multiple fronts – on campuses, in workers' unions, and in the media. It is amassing troubling victories. More and more student unions in the US are joining the boycott. Leading newspapers like the New York Times are providing a platform for boycott advocates.
Their influence has invaded the Hillel groups on campuses, as BDS supporters exploit the organization's wish for openness to disseminate their campaign. When you tell a young student that "Israel expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in 1948" and he does not know that in those same years tens of millions underwent such expulsions – as that was once the norm – and that more Jews were kicked out of Arab lands… well, he might tend to believe that Israel was born in sin.
Israel-demoniser Ben White gloats
Some of the students then become BDS activists. In recent years, it has happened more and more.
Support for Israel in the United States is at its peak.  But it's an illusion. On campuses, at research institutes, and in media outlets, there has been a consistent, protracted, and dangerous erosion of support for Israel.
.... The success of BDS is particularly impressive because it is a movement that uses the language of rights, but deals in practice with denying Israel's right to exist. The result is a major deception.
Many good and innocent people fall into this trap. When the concept of "tikkun olam" becomes the central motif for the identity of Jewish students, those who are searching for a Jewish identity, then the slippery language of the BDS movement becomes a magnet. The fraud is effective.
This appears to be one of the greatest instances of fraud in our age. Because this is a campaign of demonization with dangerous similarities to propaganda lies against Jews.
White's forked tongue
The leaders of the campaign, Omar Barghouti and Ali Abunimah, have a lofty stated goal. "The idea of two states was unacceptable from the beginning," said Barghouti in his response to a question on one campus, adding that ending Israeli control of Palestinian territories is only a step on the way to achieving the vision of dismantling Israel. Abunimah said that "the two-state solution is meant to save Zionism". [Emphasis added]
....The fact that these are unrelenting lies is reminiscent of anti-Semitic propaganda. Almost everything the Nazis said about the Jews is said today by BDS supporters about Israel, through claims of a genocide that never occurred, or deliberate mass killing of innocents, or that the Jews and/or Israel are the main cause of violence in the world, a danger to humanity or to world peace.
 We have become accustomed to the fact that Hamas and the Iranian regime openly support the denial of Israel's right to exist. The problem is that those who were supposed to be enlightened ... join the coalition of insanity, and a worldwide struggle against the very existence of one country of the all countries in the world....
An expat Israel-bashing Israeli academic reacts to this article
Israel cannot be defeated on the battlefield. But Israel can be defeated on the propaganda field. When the Foreign Ministry is split into six, because politicians need the honor, the war against this demonization absorbs a blow. But the war against BDS is not a political issue, it is a matter of national interest. All sane forces, left and right, must be enlisted in this fight against it....' [Emphasis added]
Read the entire article (with its many examples of the evils of the BDS movement including its funding, its antisemitism, and its warping of minds) here

3 comments:

  1. We face the problem that Israel's idiot of a Prime Minister is content with lying to the West and playing for time rather than being forthright and stating why a Palestinian Arab state is a threat to Israel's existence. Its difficult for Israel's friends to fight BDS when the Israeli government itself is pursuing a policy that could do great damage to Israel's viability as a Jewish State.

    The main reason BDS is so successful is Jews have forgotten to articulate the justice of Israel's cause and its rights to the Land and the Israeli government has bought into the Arab narrative, lock, stock and barrel.

    All of this needs to change if BDS is to be defeated.

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  2. I am a huge proponent of calling their bluff. Pull 100% of all Israeli technology and intellectual capital from every western academic and medical institution. Break all ties with 100% of all western academic and medical institution and bar entry of any of their members, staff, students, researchers, board members from Israel, for life, in any capacity, public, private or personal.

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