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....There was backlash even within the African American community. The Ecumenical Leadership Council of Missouri, which represents hundreds of predominantly African American churches throughout the state, issued a statement saying it “rejects without hesitation any notion or assertion that Israel operates as an apartheid country” and reminding the public that Jewish Americans have “worked with African-Americans during the civil rights era when others refused us service at the counter — and worse.”

What accounts for this extraordinary nihilism on the part of supposedly progressive BDS activists? Holding an extreme position on Israel is one thing—that can be the result of ideology, religious beliefs, ignorance or something else. Being willing to sacrifice all other causes and concerns ordinarily convergent with one’s worldview for the sake of hurting the Jewish state is something altogether different.

[font color = "blue"]This unusual grade of obsessive, self-destructive antipathy is a hallmark of classical eliminationist anti-Semitism. Unlike ordinary intergroup prejudice “found in the suspicion and resentment which are often directed against neighbors of another tribe, another race, another faith, or from another place,” explains historian Bernard Lewis, anti-Semitism is a “special and peculiar hatred” that attributes to Jews “secret and diabolical power.”

Against such a perceived enemy, no sacrifice is too great. Nazi Germany’s diversion of much-needed resources in the final months of World War II from fighting the Red Army (and providing for the escape of German refugees) to exterminating more Jews makes sense only to someone who sees the latter as a cosmic evil.

Although anti-Semites often go to great pains to avoid expressing their hatred as anti-Jewish (indeed, they coined the term “anti-Semitism” itself as a politically correct euphemism for Judenhass), this unique cognitive signature is easy enough to spot—just take a measurement of what the subjects are prepared to sacrifice to harm Jews.

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....by allowing BDS to sabotage, poison & devastate their movements?

There are other occupations & settlements throughout the world. No one knows or cares about them. So why this obsession with Israel, which destroys & rots out each and every progressive movement it touches? Why is this being allowed?

That reason is explained in the OP, second part which was cited in post #1. BDS turns into shit everything it touches. You don't see the problem?

...to live in their historic homeland? And why do you care more about Israeli settlements than settlements anywhere else around the world in other occupations?

As for your second question, we're talking about Israeli settlements forcing others off their land, not some other settlements.

Over the past two thousand years.

Either forced off their land or exterminated.

That was part of the motivation behind trying to have one country where they wouldn't be subject to that sort of thing.

A quick Google reveals that he's a prolific writer for various conservative and neocon outlets. Either way, it's very probable that he never liked BLM anyway, regardless of their stance on Israel.

If you find something wrong, inaccurate, stupid.... let me know.

Fortunately, I doubt that right-wing conservatives have much leverage with a progressive movement like BLM.

white people telling black people what to do and why they are wrong. The comments like the one I blockquoted below that are on the site at your link provide a wonderful look into the minds of these white benefactors:

You have nothing to teach anyone you mush brained BLM activist... the DNC is the
organization that kept blacks as slave in the south and and the theory
of "southern strategy" IS DEMOCRAT REVISIONIST BS .. DNC has always been
the party of slavery, and they still are to this day. You are a globalist loving, multi national corporate lackey... that's all you are. So buy your brands, like your Nikes and your Jordan's and act like you have something to say , but you just dont. Once the democrat burn the Constitution .. the black people are going to be the first to feel the wrath of what a police state really is. You know where white systemic racism really lives... in most countries BESIDES the USA. You people are digging your own graves.

....every progressive movement it touches. Anyone for BLM who actually cares for Black lives should want Jew hating BDS holes out of their movement altogether.

your advice and has just been waiting for white people to point out the error in their ways.

Jews have a right to be offended @ Jew hating ass holes taking over progressive movements.

And we sure as hell don't need your permission to speak out.

pretend to be in the position of granting you permission to do anything. You should keep speking up like this I can't begin to say how effective I think it is for whtie people to point out to black people how wrong they are.

White people can't say anything, but they're expected to take in every syllable from Black people?...Sorry, but that ain't gonna play...Nice fantasy, though.

of this little den of white supremacy at this point. Thanks for showing me who you are. Maya Angelou was correct. I believe you.

"This den of 'white supremacy?? Really? You're funny.

The antisemitism of the the BLM platform is not merely an unfortunate add on by radical Leftists. It is in fact the tip of a completely rotten iceberg. Yes, Jews care about the antisemitism, but everyone should care about what that means. It's another canary in the coal mine. The antisemitism is a warning of greater problems in the movement. Unfortunately the current BLM platform is not only a complete non-starter. The more ordinary Americans understand the substance of it, the more of them will just shut down whatever conversation is beginning on this important issue.