{"id":372827,"date":"2018-08-10T12:07:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T11:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-faulty-logic-behind-the-attack-on-bds-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10T12:07:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T11:07:57","slug":"the-faulty-logic-behind-the-attack-on-bds-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-faulty-logic-behind-the-attack-on-bds-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faulty Logic Behind the Attack on BDS \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Defenders of Israel are using flawed logic in trying to tar supporters of the age-old tactic of boycotts as anti-semitic, argues Lawrence Davidson. <\/span><\/span><span id=\"more-29465\"\/><b style=\"font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.05em;\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b style=\"font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">By Lawrence Davidson<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Larry-Davidson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Larry-Davidson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27062\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27062\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Larry-Davidson-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/noscript><\/a>If you search the topic boycotts on Google you immediately realize how historically common they are. There are a lot to choose from, and one of the first listed is the 1769 boycott instituted by the First Continental Congress against Great Britain over the issue of \u201ctaxation without representation.\u201d That makes a boycott against a perceived oppressive power an integral part of American heritage.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As you move into the modern era, a reaction against racism also becomes a noticeable motivating factor for many boycotts. The Chinese instituted a boycott against the United States over the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1892 and 1904. Then, in 1933, the American Jewish Congress declared a boycott of Nazi Germany in protest to its racially motivated oppression of the German Jewish community. In the 1940s, Ghandi would encourage Indians to boycott imperial Britain. In the 1950s and 1960s, African Americans would boycott segregated institutions in the U.S. South. In the 1960s through the 1990s, much of the world would boycott South Africa over issue of apartheid. And this is but a short list.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In 2005, 170 Palestinian civil society organizations, including unions, refugee networks, women\u2019s organizations, and political parties, put out a call for a boycott of Israel. This was to be a non-violent effort to pressure the Zionist state to conform to international law and cease its oppression of the Palestinians. The call was also for divestment from Israel and all entities that assisted and profited from its behavior, as well as for eventual sanctions. This is known as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, or BDS for short.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Redefining Anti-Semitism<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29467\" style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Feb-2017-Rome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Feb-2017-Rome.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29467\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"407\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29467\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Feb-2017-Rome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"407\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Protest in front of City Hall in Capitoline Hill on February 28, 2017 in Rome, Italy. The event organized by the Italian BDS movement.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">(Photo by Stefano Montesi\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Even though Jews had suffered in the Holocaust during World War II and had used boycott as a weapon against their oppressors, the Israelis and their Zionist&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/08\/09\/the-faulty-logic-behind-the-attack-on-bds\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defenders of Israel are using flawed logic in trying to tar supporters of the age-old tactic of boycotts as anti-semitic, argues Lawrence Davidson. By Lawrence Davidson If you search the topic boycotts on Google you immediately realize how historically common they are. There are a lot to choose from, and one of the first listed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}