The BDS Movement seeks the boycott of products made in Jewish areas of the West Bank. The rhetoric of the movement accuses Israel of being an "apartheid state", but this is ridiculous since it is the BDS Movement that uses apartheid tactics.
Apartheid was the policy followed in South Africa that kept people separated by race. In essence, it was the South African variant of segregation. There is no policy of this sort in Israel. Indeed, there is nothing that even resembles it slightly. The so called "settlements" consist for the most part of Jews who have moved into the eastern areas of Jerusalem and its nearby suburbs. Many of the people in those areas are Arabs, either Moslem or Christian. This is mixing, not separation.
The BDS Movement, however, wants to keep eastern Jerusalem and all of the West Bank free of Jews. Simply put, the Palestinians and the BDS Movement want a separate area in which only Palestinian Arabs will be allowed to live or work; it's apartheid in every way. So the racist BDS Movement calls for what amounts to "racial purity" in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem and denounces its opponents as purveyors of apartheid.
Let's put it this way: the BDS Movement is the rough equivalent of the American Atheist league denouncing the Vatican for not believing in God.
Apartheid was the policy followed in South Africa that kept people separated by race. In essence, it was the South African variant of segregation. There is no policy of this sort in Israel. Indeed, there is nothing that even resembles it slightly. The so called "settlements" consist for the most part of Jews who have moved into the eastern areas of Jerusalem and its nearby suburbs. Many of the people in those areas are Arabs, either Moslem or Christian. This is mixing, not separation.
The BDS Movement, however, wants to keep eastern Jerusalem and all of the West Bank free of Jews. Simply put, the Palestinians and the BDS Movement want a separate area in which only Palestinian Arabs will be allowed to live or work; it's apartheid in every way. So the racist BDS Movement calls for what amounts to "racial purity" in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem and denounces its opponents as purveyors of apartheid.
Let's put it this way: the BDS Movement is the rough equivalent of the American Atheist league denouncing the Vatican for not believing in God.
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