Reply #49: your linked article entitled ""BDS" - deceptive, antisemitic and genocidal' [View All]

lets take a closer look shall we?

first a you tube vid that you've posted here many times before and I'm sure will many times again that cherry picks statements from speeches, makes claims about documents it gives us a quick glance at and some of the lines are blacked out, why, not to mention starts out with a still of masked (Hamas?) gunmen and the sounds of repeated shots being fired, but most of us have seen it already but I guess a 'classic' never wears out.

the second is an unsubstantiated statement that has no link we'll just take the writers word for it huh?

now the third lets take a closer look at the complete stament that is paraphrased in the article

Now on the ground, back to your question, there is no political party in Palestine now or among Palestinians outside either calling for a secular, democratic one-state solution. Despite this, polls in the West Bank and Gaza have consistently in the last few years shown 25-30 percent support for a secular, democratic state. Two polls in 2007 showed two-thirds majority support for a single state solution in all flavors — some of them think of a purely Palestinian state without Israelis and so on — in exile it’s even much higher because the main issue is that refugees in particular, and people fighting for refugee rights like I am, know that you cannot reconcile the right of return for refugees with a two state solution. That is the big white elephant in the room and people are ignoring it — a return for refugees would end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. The right of return is a basic right that cannot be given away; it’s inalienable. Â A two-state solution was never moral and it’s no longer working — it’s impossible with all the Israeli settlements and so on. We need to move on to the more moral solution that treats everyone as equal under the law, whether they are Jewish-Israeli or Palestinian.

http://electronicintifada.net/content/boycotts-work-interview-omar-barghouti/8263

hardly genocidal or even antisemitic is it? it is simply an alternate view nothing more nothing less

but now one must ask you claim to against Israel's new anti-boycott law but yet have spent a goodly number of posts demonizing and attempting to delegitimize the BDS movement it self can we come to the conclusion you against the law not in it's spirit and intent but indeed because it 'looks bad'?

and as to the BDS movement itself not so long ago we were quite regularly being told that it would have no effect on Israel what so ever it implied that a boycott was piffle not even worthy of consideration, but now we have Israel instituting a law against boycotts and the demonization of its supporters it seems some effect is being felt or is it something else?