Ehud Rosen,
February 12, 2014
The BDS initiative, inspired by the 2001 “Durban Strategy,” was launched in
July 2005, when its proponents called for “non-violent punitive measures” to be
maintained until Israel meets three basic obligations:
It is this last point that has raised suspicions about the ultimate aim of the BDS movement. Writing in the New York Times, Roger Cohen, who is often critical of Israeli policy, nonetheless concludes that the BDS movement has a “hidden agenda,” which he states is “the end of Israel as a Jewish state.” Indeed, Barghouti wrote back in December 2003 that his goal is a one-state solution, which he defines earlier in the same article as a unitary state in which “by definition, Jews will be a minority.”3 Nevertheless, he is outraged by Cohen’s charge, calling him “a bigot, not a liberal.”4
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- Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall;
- Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
- Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194 [which, according to the Palestinian interpretation, means returning to the whole of Israel].1
It is this last point that has raised suspicions about the ultimate aim of the BDS movement. Writing in the New York Times, Roger Cohen, who is often critical of Israeli policy, nonetheless concludes that the BDS movement has a “hidden agenda,” which he states is “the end of Israel as a Jewish state.” Indeed, Barghouti wrote back in December 2003 that his goal is a one-state solution, which he defines earlier in the same article as a unitary state in which “by definition, Jews will be a minority.”3 Nevertheless, he is outraged by Cohen’s charge, calling him “a bigot, not a liberal.”4
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" If the left’s foreign policy these
days had a slogan, it would be, “Boycott Israel, not Iran.” The double
standard, dishonest as it is ugly, is also the motto of Obama’s foreign
policy, which benevolently blesses Iran’s nuclear program with one
outstretched hand in the name of peace and chokes concessions out of
Israel to the terrorists with the other also in the name of peace..."
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