Activists in the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement

will tell you they are only defending the rights of Palestinians, but
when they chant "from the river to the sea," they're calling for the
complete destruction of Israel.
The BDS movement is growing and has become has become a force on
more and more college campuses.
It is aimed at only one nation, the only democracy in the Middle East.
Who Started BDS?
"No other country, just Israel," says Richard Millet, who tracks the
BDS movement through his website. "You won't see this against any
other country in the world that they don't agree with. They won't be
calling for a boycott of America, which they don't agree with, or the
British government, which they don't agree with, before we get into
China, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia. You name it. All the other
countries, there is no boycott, so you answer, 'Why?'"
The answer to that question can be found in the answer to another
important question: Who started the BDS movement?
BDS groups say the movement was launched in 2005 by the
Palestinian Civil Society. But the evidence shows that is not true.
A video of BDS leaders discussing the origin of the movement at a
conference at the University of Westminster on May 25 this year
shows Ilan Pappe, director of the European Centre for Palestinian
Studies at the University of Exeter in England, considered a leading
intellectual in the BDS movement, quietly disagreeing with the
statement that the Palestinians created the BDS movement.
Dr. Ruba Salih, with the University of London, told Pappe, "The
Palestinians launched the BDS in 2005 and 2004."

Pappe responds, "Yes, yes, not really, but yes. For historical records,
yes."
Salih presses him: "That's important."
Pappe responds: "That's not true [that Palestinians started the BDS
movement], but it's important."
It is important because, if the Palestinians did not begin the BDS
movement, then the question, of course, is who did?
BDS expert and president of NGO Monitor, professor Gerald Steinberg,
says BDS is a creation of European socialists and Muslim nations who
oppose Israel, led by the 57 nation Organization of the Islamic
Conference, the largest voting bloc at the United Nations.
"So they get together with the radical Left, it started with the Soviet
Union, certainly filters over to the Trotskyites and the British Labor
Party in the UK and many other radical allies," Stenberg explained.
"The fact that this is in many ways a European radical political
movement makes it even less legitimate."
Who Funds BDS?
There have been Arab boycotts of Israel since 1945, before the creation
of the State of Israel. Some even trace the boycotts back to Nazi
Germany in 1933. But the modern BDS movement took shape at the
2001 U.N. Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa; an
event so rife with blatant anti-Semitism that the U.S. and Israeli
delegations walked out.
"People were selling or distributing copies of the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion. There were people there urging a return to Nazi
anti-Semitism," Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis
Center for Human Rights Under Law, said.

He added, "from that movement, the new BDS campaign emerged."

Another key question is who funds BDS? Steinberg says the movement
gets hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Some of the funding is
difficult to track. But if you live in a Western nation, there's a good
chance you help fund it through your tax dollars and also through
your tithe.
The BDS movement gets most of its funding from the European
Union, European national governments, and even the U.S.
government. The money goes to NGOs (non-governmental
organizations) that claim to fight for human rights but that also
oppose the State of Israel.
"Amnesty International, Ken Roth and Human Rights watch,"
Steinberg said. "These organizations are funded by governments
under the label of international aid promoting human rights,
promoting peace and development, the Swiss, the Swedes, the
Norwegians, the British, Germans, up and down. The money there is
huge."
Some Christian charities also give money to BDS. The website
forChristian Aid makes it look like it only fights poverty, but drill
down on their website and you'll find they also support BDS, as does
thePresbyterian Church, USA.
Brainwashing Students
While the BDS movement has been in one respect a failure--it has
accomplished very little in the policy arena--it is has succeeded in
another area, by spreading anti-Semitism across college campuses.
"What we're seeing increasingly is that BDS activists are intimidating
student governments at colleges and universities to pay for their
activities and if they don't, there may be repercussions," Marcus said.

Jewish students and professors find themselves increasingly

persecuted on campus. The Muslim Student Association and the
Students for Justice in Palestine have hundreds of campus chapters,
aggressively confronting and sometimes assaulting Jewish students
and faculty at pro-Israel events.
Ronnie Fraser, founding director of the Academic Friends of Israel,
warns that the next generation of leaders is being brainwashed that
Israel is the worst nation on earth.
"Students are being fed a diet of Israel is a racist state. Israel is a
Zionist state. Israel equals the Nazis," he said.
With massive funding behind it, BDS is turning people against Israel
and creating a generation of leaders who may someday try to carry
out what some have said is the real goal of the BDS movement: the
elimination of the State of Israel.
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