Israel/Palestine

The article admitted that BDS condemned the pig head attack. Why wasn't that enough?

Why is this incident, an incident BDS(with all its flaws) was not responsible for(as the article itself admits) being used to demonize BDS?

I agree that its wrong to describe life within Israel proper(the Israeli side of the Green Line) as "apartheid", but why is that term inaccurate when used to describe the situation in the Illegally Occupied Territories? It's not as though Israel HAS to have the West Bank settlements (the settlements are an ideological want supported solely by the Israeli right-they are not in any way necessary to Israel's security or survival-and all the settlements have ever done is to create a quasi-colonialist privileged settler vs. powerless Palestinian dynamic.)

The leadership of both sides have done wrong. It serves no purpose to ascribe most, if not all criticism of what the Israeli government has done in the West Bank and to Gaza to "hatred of Jews". And it has been shown that no good has ever come of any Israeli government attempts to dictate which groups should or should not be "the Palestinian leadership"-Netanyahu's party's efforts to do that in the Eighties, and his own fixation with "sidelining the PLO" the last time he was prime minister, are the main reason Hamas has the power it has now. If they had just negotiated with the PLO when Arafat was at the height of his powers, there would be peace now.

If anyone, through his actions, is demonstrating hatred of Jews these days, it is Binyamin Netanyahu-the man who is endangering most of them through the arrogance and brutality of his "security policies" and through his pointless and anti-peace campaign to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state at all costs-even though Netanyahu knows that his government has no right to block Palestinian self-determination and at the same time expect the Palestinians to give up all resistance and the other Arab countries to make peace.