Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Ilan Pappe admits that BDS was not initiated by a “call” from Palestinian Civil Society [View all]aranthus
(3,386 posts)First, it's one more lie told by the BDS crowd. Further evidence that the entire enterprise is a massive fraud.
Second, BDS has tried to establish credibility by claiming that it was a grass roots movement among Palestinians. Credibility it doesn't deserve.
Third, it is one more example of Leftists co-opting someone else's cause to advance their own radical agenda, which ultimately ends up hurting the people they falsely claim to be fighting for. In this instance, the primary results of BDS are that the Israelis become more convinced that the Palestinians are too steeped in their own version of antisemitism to ever make peace with the Jewish state, and damage to the Palestinian economy and workers, with no real positive gains (unless you count the rise in antisemitism as a positive).