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In reply to the discussion: Detroit Jews ask: Are settlement boycotts the same as BDS? [View all]aranthus
(3,386 posts)3. It's not that at all.
It is that so much of the anti-Israel crowd seeks the destruction of the Jewish state, and that there is so much interconnection between groups with legitimate concern and those that are hateful and that try to conceal their hatefulness in the usual high souding slogans, that it is safer to err on the cautious side and have no truck with anything that smacks of being anti-Israel.
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Fortunately, today there's the internet, and it's very good at unindoctrinating people.
Little Tich
May 2016
#2
No IMO it's that many proIsrael American already believe that the West Bank settlements
azurnoir
May 2016
#4
What an ignorant,sexist and in this case - homophobic thing to say on a progressive forum...
King_David
May 2016
#34
What an ignorant,sexist and in this case - homophobic thing to say on a progressive forum...
King_David
May 2016
#48
I have absolutely no idea WTF your talking about here and I assume you have absolutely no idea WTF
King_David
May 2016
#32
Adalah is a joke. We went over that already with their fictitious list of 50 discriminatory laws...
shira
May 2016
#16
Adalah's claims would make the Gregorian Calendar & Scandinavian flags discriminatory....
shira
May 2016
#24
I think that it would be more inclusive to include official references to Israel's Arab heritage and
Little Tich
May 2016
#49
The Christian Gregorian Calendar is not discriminatory, nor are Scandinavian flags....
shira
May 2016
#50
It seems to me that the offer to the Palestinians was just unspecified areas of desert:
Little Tich
May 2016
#46