BDS is real obstacle to peace
The Times of Israel (via Honest Reporting) tells how the BDS movement is the real destroyer of peace:
When the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement launched its latest campaign against SodaStream, it never could have imagined the level of defeat it would suffer in the process.There's the answer right there. The BDS movement is so full of hate for Israel, they want to drag down the Arabic workers with it by costing them their jobs. As a result, their attempts have backfired.
Instead of drawing attention to Israeli abuses of Palestinians, the BDS campaign generated discussions about just the opposite – that Palestinians actually benefit from the economic cooperation generated by companies like SodaStream.
In the process, the BDS managed to bring into question one of the sacred cows of the movement – that settlements are the “obstacle to peace” in the region. A reasonable person following the news might conclude that the real obstacle is the sort of blanket boycotting advocated by the BDS.
The SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum told reporters he was keeping the factory in Ma’ale Adumim open out of loyalty to the hundreds of Palestinians who work there. If he moved inside the Green Line, as the BDS demands, the workers would lose their jobs.
Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, Jerusalem
