Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel"s Birth and Growth

 Nadene Goldfoot                                   

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CODEPINK, or Code Pink: Women for Peace, is a left-wing organization that supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. BDS is a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement that promotes economic sanctions, divestments, and boycotts against Israel.  I note that usually such groups turn nasty, violent.  
            

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) started July 9, 2005 by Omar Barghouti, and Ramy Shaat, Palestinian Arabs and said to be a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel. This has only created much anti-Semitism including violence.                                     

Its objective is to pressure Israel to meet what the BDS movement describes as Israel's obligations under international law,   The problem lies in that Palestinians consider all of Israel as belonging to the Arabs and disregard all legal matters decided after WWI.  Israel offered the sun, moon and stars to the Arabs to gain peace, but they No No No'd from 1967  even before and onward.  Their one goal in mind has been the ones to destroy Israel.  

Their leaders define this  as:                     

            August 18, 2005 when Jews found it hard to leave Gaza after all their work, and because of the government's decision, soldiers had to help them out.  They left their businesses for the Arabs who turned around and destroyed them anyway.  Instead, they learned how to dig tunnels.  

1.  Withdrawal from the occupied territories:  The Occupied Territories, which include Judea/Samaria, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, are subject to the jurisdiction of Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), with the division of responsibilities overlapping in much of the territory.  Israel moved out of Gaza and gave it to Palestinians in 2005. By 22 September 2005, Israel's withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip to the 1967 Green Line, and the eviction of the four settlements in Samaria, was completed. In June 2007 Hamas, the terrorists of the PA,  took over the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority by their own election encouraged by Obama.  Jews had created Judea/Samaria and all of Jerusalem.  It's written as such in the Bible for verification.  It's the land they have finally returned to;  and were doing everything for a peaceful Arab-cousin revival, but instead were met with bullets.                                                          

2. Removal of the separation barrier in the West Bank:  The barrier was built by Israel following a wave of Palestinian political violence and incidents of terrorism inside Israel during the Second Intifada, which began in September 2000 and ended in February 2005.   It may be causing inconveniences, but it is saving lives.  

3. Full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and :  Arab citizens of Israel are descendants of Palestinians who remained in the area that became Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. They were automatically granted citizenship and the right to vote. Why were they granted citizenship?   The Israeli government granted citizenship to Palestinians who remained or were not expelled after the 1948 war. Anyone born in Israel to at least one Israeli parent automatically becomes a citizen.  In the early 1980s, Israel granted citizenship eligibility to the Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the Syrian citizens of the Golan Heights by annexing both areas, though they remain internationally recognized as part of the Israeli-occupied territories, which came into being after the Six-Day War of 1967.

4. "respecting, protecting, and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties".  They left because their leaders told them to do so.  They expected to win the war and all the civilians could take over Jewish homes.  The Jews won the war instead and the Arabs continued to live in refugee camps.  

• Arabs comprise just over 20 percent of Israel’s population. The vast majority are citizens, while those in Jerusalem, which Israel claims as its capital, are considered “permanent residents.”  Israel is the only country created for Jews and by Jews because they have suffered anti-Semitic discrimination ever since they were Hellenized by the Greeks.  Britain held the 30 year mandate and at the end promised to help build the Jewish Homeland.  Instead, they helped more Arabs to enter while keeping Jews out at the time of WWII.  There has never been a country of Palestine; it was renamed as such by the angry Romans, land named after Israel's worst enemy.

Many critics as well as myself  accuse the BDS movement of antisemitism, as I have seen it grow at Portland State U.  It's a charge the movement denies, calling it an attempt to conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism.  Multiple countries and the majority of U.S. states have passed anti-BDS laws.

Resource:

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2025/02/when-portland-state-u-alma-mater-became.html