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Thread #163483   Message #3902659
Posted By: Steve Shaw
29-Jan-18 - 03:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: Trump Station in Old Jerusalem
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Station in Old Jerusalem
What nonsense. There is no desire within the movement to eliminate the state of Israel and you know it. That is empty words intended to inflame. If I'm wrong, prove it. Show me any BDS publication or quote me one speech sanctioned by BDS that has called for it. I'll save you the trouble: there aren't any. BDS is an international movement. The people who support it get their information from many sources within their own countries and from online sources, among others, and they mainly live in countries which are democracies with free and open media. I support BDS and I get my information about what goes on in Israel from a multitude of sources, thank you very much, and my antennae are kept tuned for sites or publications that don't meet my requirements for free and factual non-tendentious reporting, whatever side they belong to. BDS is fully open about its aims and is in no way subversive, another lazy slur. You talk as if all the people who oppose the policies of the Israeli regime towards Palestinians are a bunch of half-wits who rely solely on electronic intifada. Well we don't. And yes, regime. If you act in discriminatory fashion against a section of your population and barricade almost two million people for over a decade in what amounts to an open-air prison, lock up people for months or years without charge or trial, evacuate families from their homes in order to build exclusive walled settlements for Jews only and build a wall that divides Palestinian farms and families, you are acting like any regime that was ever worthy of the accolade. Perhaps your problem is YOUR sources. They certainly don't appear to be giving you the information you need for you to come to even a remotely fair-minded judgement about what's going on.