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ABSTRACT
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led anti-Israel international campaign, seems necessary to many ‘progressive’ activists, especially from the radical left. However, it promotes antisemitism through boycotting; legitimisation of terrorism through whitewashing; the destruction of Israel via support for the Palestinian ‘right of return’; and acceptance of antisemitic anti-Zionism by associating Jews, all Jews, with Israel.
Acknowledgments
The author wishes to thank Prof. Jonathan Rynhold and Prof. Jonathan Fox for their guidance and support during his research. He would also like to thank Dr. Dana Barnett for her helpful and pleasant editorial work for this issue.
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Notes
1. This was already expressed in the BDS’s launching announcement that called inter alia for “Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.” See: “Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS.”
2. IHRA, “Working Definition of Antisemitism.”
3. Reuters, “Germany designates BDS Israel boycott movement as anti-Semitic,” May 17, 2019.
4. Nye, “Soft Power.”
5. Jerusalem Post Staff, “Johannesburg Names Road After Palestinian Terrorist Leila Khaled.”
6. Karsh, Arafat’s War.
7. Kabha, The Palestinian People 255-331.
8. Barnett, “Neo-Marxist Israeli academics.”
9. PACBI Statement.
10. Barghouti, BDS 4-5.
11. Ibid., 6.
12. Sharansky, “3D Test for Antisemitism”; and Radoshitzky, “Containing the Link Between BDS and Antisemitism.”
13. Fine and Spencer, Antisemitism and the Left; Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession 104-5.
14. Topor, “Explanations of Antisemitism.”
15. Apartheid Free Zones, BDS Movement, https://bdsmovement.net/apartheid-free-zones.
16. Friedman, “The Jewish ghettos of the Nazi era,” 73.
17. Bennhold, “German Parliament Deems BDS MovementAnti-Semitic”; and Michman, The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos 1-14.
18. See note 14 above.
19. Klug, “Interrogating ‘New Antisemitism’.”
20. Liebovitz, “Rashida Tlaib’s Unbelievable Lies”; and Heni, “Antisemitism in UK Academia.”
21. Karagiannis and McCauley, “The emerging red-green alliance”; Zieve, “Protesters burn Israeli flag in London Temple Mount demonstration”; and Topor, “Explanations of Antisemitism.”
22. Geras, “Alibi Antisemitism”; and Hirsh, “Hostility to Israel and Antisemitism.”
23. MacShane, Globalising Hatred 1-18; and Paul, “British Film Director.”
24. Kantor Centre, “Antisemitism Worldwide 2018”; and Hirsh, “Hostility to Israel.”
25. Simcox, “Jeremy Corbyn Has a Soft Spot for Extremists”; Sabbagh, “Jeremy Corbyn: I was present at wreath-laying but don’t think I was involved”; and Stewart, Elgot and Parveen, “Keir Starmer denies Jeremy Corbyn Labour whip despite end of suspension.”
26. Moore, “The Venn diagram of misogyny.”
27. See note 14 above.
28. Karagiannis and McCauley, “The emerging red-green alliance.”
29. Ministry of Strategic Affairs, “Terrorists in Suites.”
30. Report of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.
31. Steinberg, “From Durban to the Goldstone Report.”
32. Islamic Human Rights Commission, “Al Quds Day 2019.”
33. Richards, “Charlie Hebdo given ‘Islamophobe of the Year’ award”; and Sleigh, “Swathe of anti-Semitic abuse is uncovered at pro-Palestinian group backed by Jeremy Corbyn.”
34. Tazpit News Agency, “Anti-Israel Marchers in the Center of London Espouse Antisemitism”; and Thurlow, “The Straw that broke the Camel’s back: Public order, civil liberties and the battle of Cable street.”
35. See note 29 above.
36. Visser, Lubbers and Kraaykamp, Jaspers, “Support for radical left ideologies in Europe.”
37. Weinthal, “German Bank and BDS Group”; Times of Israel, “UN condemns ‘severe’ human rights violations in Iran.”
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Lev Topor
Lev Topor is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Cyber Law and Policy, University of Haifa, Israel.