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Bit of an overreaction, no? How would a boycott destroy one of the most powerful military forces on earth? BDS isn't trying to destroy Israel. It's only attem

by sndman 5y ago

Bit of an overreaction, no? How would a boycott destroy one of the most powerful military forces on earth? BDS isn't trying to destroy Israel. It's only attempting to bring attention to the government's inhuman treatment of Palestinians. Human Rights watch calls the situation in the OT "apartheid" (note the little ' A'). https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/isra... B'Tselem Israeli Human RIghts group: https://www.btselem.org/topic/apartheid https://www.btselem.org/topic/apartheid Not all criticism of the Israeli government is antisemitism.

joelbluminator 5y ago
BDS wants to dismantle/discontinue or whatever word you see fit Israel in it's current form by advocating for "the right of return". That means bringing in around 5-6 million refugees (overwhelmingly 2nd and 3rd generation descendants of the original refugees, since it was 73 years ago not many of the original people are alive) to create a Palestinian majority country. By any meaningful sense it won't be Israel anymore just as the U.S won't be the U.S if 300 million Chinese people move there. So I feel like destroy is a harsh but sensible word to use.
- sndman 5y ago
  ''The cultivated land is probably 1 million dunam. According to international law, we cannot sell anything, so maybe we should buy from those Arabs who do not want to come back.... All we need is 400 tractors, each tractor can cultivate 3000 dunam - cultivating not just for the purpose of procuring food but in order to prevent anyone from returning to their lands. Land of lesser quality should be sold to private or public sectors....At least, let us say that this confiscation is an exchange for the property the Jews from the Arab world lost when they immigrated to Palestine." --Bechor Shitrit, head of the settlement department of the Jewish National Fund, Ben-Gurion's Diary, 18 August 1948.
raxxorrax 5y ago
It isn't a productive political dissent though as many Palestinian products go through Israel to the international market. Still, it should be allowed.

by sndman 5y ago

joelbluminator 5y ago

BDS wants to dismantle/discontinue or whatever word you see fit Israel in it's current form by advocating for "the right of return". That means bringing in around 5-6 million refugees (overwhelmingly 2nd and 3rd generation descendants of the original refugees, since it was 73 years ago not many of the original people are alive) to create a Palestinian majority country. By any meaningful sense it won't be Israel anymore just as the U.S won't be the U.S if 300 million Chinese people move there. So I feel like destroy is a harsh but sensible word to use.

sndman 5y ago
''The cultivated land is probably 1 million dunam. According to international law, we cannot sell anything, so maybe we should buy from those Arabs who do not want to come back.... All we need is 400 tractors, each tractor can cultivate 3000 dunam - cultivating not just for the purpose of procuring food but in order to prevent anyone from returning to their lands. Land of lesser quality should be sold to private or public sectors....At least, let us say that this confiscation is an exchange for the property the Jews from the Arab world lost when they immigrated to Palestine." --Bechor Shitrit, head of the settlement department of the Jewish National Fund, Ben-Gurion's Diary, 18 August 1948.

raxxorrax 5y ago

It isn't a productive political dissent though as many Palestinian products go through Israel to the international market. Still, it should be allowed.