The true aims of BDS!!
Omar Barghouti
Co-founder and Steering Committee member of Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). He was also a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University.
“‘The only ethical solution is a (single) democratic, secular and civic state in historic Palestine,’ says Omar Barghouti, founder member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.”
“(The one state solution means) a unitary state, where, by definition, Jews will be a minority.”
Barghouti also falsely claims a “right to resist”:
“International law does give people under occupation the right to resist in any way, including armed resistance.”
Dr. Norman Finkelstein
A major BDS supporter, severely critiqued the BDS movement for being “dishonest” about their goals, saying,
“We have to be honest, and I loathe the disingenuousness. They [BDS] don’t want Israel… And they think they’re very clever because they know the result of implementing all three [demands] is what? What’s the result? You know and I know, what’s the result? There’s no Israel.”
Dr. As’ad Abu Khalil
A California academic and BDS campaigner, responding to Finkelstein: “Finkelstein rightly asks whether the real aim of BDS is to bring down the state of Israel. Here, I agree with him that it is. That should be stated as an unambiguous goal. There should not be any equivocation on the subject. Justice and freedom for the Palestinians are incompatible with the existence of the state of Israel.”
Ahmed Moor
A leading BDS activist in the United States
“Ending the occupation doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t mean upending the Jewish state itself… Ok fine. So BDS does mean the end of the Jewish state… I view the BDS movement as a long-term project with radically transformative potential. I believe that the ultimate success of the BDS movement will be coincident with the ultimate success of the Palestinian enfranchisement and equal rights movement. In other words, BDS is not another step on the way to the final showdown; BDS is The Final Showdown.”
Michael Warschawski
“Peace—or, better yet, justice—cannot be achieved without a total decolonization (one can say de-Zionization) of the Israeli state; it is a precondition for the fulfillment of the legitimate rights of the Palestinians—refugees, those living under military occupation, and the second-class citizens of Israel.”
Ronnie Kasrils
“BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine
Thanks to Yitzhak Santis for above info.
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