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)You've been directed to the BDS website before. You know that a primary goal of BDS is enforcement of "Right of Return". You are on record as supporting it. "Right of Return" isn't a civil right. In fact, there is no such right at all. It was manufactured by the anti-Israel crowd as a way to attack the Jewish state. That's why Finklestein believes that the BDS crowd is dishonest. He understands that if BDS gets it's way that there won't be a Jewish state of Israel. Which means that anyone who supports BDS and claims to support two states is lying or seriously deluded.
As for BLM read their platform. It isn't about civil rights so much as it is radically restructuring America. Google Black Lives Matter Orlando, and you'll find a BLM website that claims that the attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando was caused by capitalism and white supremacism. If that isn't radical then nothing is. But you're a Leftist yourself, so of course it looks mainstream to you.