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Yes it is. Read the BDS website. They advocate boycotting "nearly" every Israeli company. > Virtually all Israeli companies are complicit to some degree in I
by Mikeb85 5y ago
Yes it is. Read the BDS website. They advocate boycotting "nearly" every Israeli company.
> Virtually all Israeli companies are complicit to some degree in Israel’s system of occupation and apartheid.
From https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott
Last dropdown link at the bottom of the page.
- malermeister 5y agoYou just did it again. Israeli != Jew. There's plenty of Muslim, Christian and secular Israelis. Stop conflating religion and nationality.
- pydry 5y agoYou are still deliberately conflating race and state. We both know that calling a boycott of "nearly every American" company an "attack on the white race" would be a racist wolf whistle, and not a particularly subtle one. Yours is no different.
- mattzito 5y agoSo - let's say that a business owner in Texas thinks BDS is at best misguided, and at worst anti-semitic, and does not want to align themselves with them. However, they also believe that the Israeli government is creating a humanitarian crisis and wants to protest, however symbolically, so they decide they're not going to do business with any Israeli company who directly does business with the Israeli government. In this case, they're not part of BDS, they are boycotting based on their sincere beliefs, and this law constrains their speech regardless. It's clear that BDS is the precipitating cause of this law, and so it's reasonable to look at BDS as the way that this was put into place, but the law itself doesn't have anything to do with BDS, and so it's not relevant to talk about BDS in the context of its effects on people today.