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Schumer: BDS is antisemitic
Senator Charles Schumer used harsh rhetoric against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement on Monday, saying the movement is a modern form of antisemitism.
“It is very suspicious that those who promote boycotting Israel do not seek boycotts against any other nations in the world, particularly those nations in the Middle East whose human rights records include hanging dissenters from cranes in city squares and imprisoning and torturing critics of the government.,” Schumer told the audience at this year’s conference for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
“I believe that those who call for boycotts of Israel without calling for boycotts of other neighboring nations whose human rights records are in fact reprehensible are practicing, whether they know it or not, whether they admit it or not, a modern form of what we call antisemitism,” Schumer said to rousing applause....
...“One further thought on these boycotts. Those who even with the best of intentions warn Israel that she must make agreements she feels unjust because the boycotting will only get worse in the future, those people have it all wrong,” Schumer said. “Those quote-unquote friends should be condemning the boycotts in every possible way and weakening them,” he said.
“It is very suspicious that those who promote boycotting Israel do not seek boycotts against any other nations in the world, particularly those nations in the Middle East whose human rights records include hanging dissenters from cranes in city squares and imprisoning and torturing critics of the government.,” Schumer told the audience at this year’s conference for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
“I believe that those who call for boycotts of Israel without calling for boycotts of other neighboring nations whose human rights records are in fact reprehensible are practicing, whether they know it or not, whether they admit it or not, a modern form of what we call antisemitism,” Schumer said to rousing applause....
...“One further thought on these boycotts. Those who even with the best of intentions warn Israel that she must make agreements she feels unjust because the boycotting will only get worse in the future, those people have it all wrong,” Schumer said. “Those quote-unquote friends should be condemning the boycotts in every possible way and weakening them,” he said.
http://antisemitism.org.il/article/85573/schumer-bds-antisemitic
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I couldn't put together how Bush Derangement Syndrome was anti-Semitic, from the title on the latest threads page. 
