God I fucking HATE this discourse.
BDS is not antisemitic.
BDS is also not NOT antisemitic.
BDS is an action. It's one that can be - *and too often is* motivated by antisemitism. It doesn't remotely need to be so motivated. And that's true whether you think it's right or wrong, good or bad.
BDS is not antisemitic.
BDS is also not NOT antisemitic.
BDS is an action. It's one that can be - *and too often is* motivated by antisemitism. It doesn't remotely need to be so motivated. And that's true whether you think it's right or wrong, good or bad.
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No, boycotting Israeli products because of Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank is not antisemitic.
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This is not a “one or the other” situation.
It might be worth putting those in the spotlight more.
It's like the dispute with Canada over tarifs and Trump's idea of invading Canada.
A lot of Americans were supportive or comprehensive of the Canadians initiative to boycott US products.
When you start using Jewish tropes in defining your objections to Israeli policy, you might be crossing that line.
That thing where y'all stuff more and more things into a definition rendering it useless.
The world is not, has never been, a binary thing.
All good guys do not wear white hats, all bad guys do not wear black hats.
BDS is a movement/concept/idea.
It is nothing on its own.
If the person screaming you should support BDS is talking about genocide is bad, that person might not be antisemitic.
Neither example proves BDS is or is not antisemitic.
'I think Bibi might be a bad person'
Unleash the antisemitic proclamation horde
'I think Bibi is a bad person trying to kill all non-jews & start forest fires!'
Unleash the antisemitic proclamation horde
If you don't see...
I can have an issue with someone who happens to be Jewish, this does not/should not imply that I think all Jewish people aren't worthy of life... but there is the die hard group who screams antisemitic, both are the same!!
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