First Victim of American Studies BDS Boycott of Israel was Palestinian Student

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Why does BDS hate Muslims?

This BDS victory was almost as successful as getting a whole bunch of Arab Muslims fired by shutting down the Sodastream plant. As a story in Dissent Magazine reveals, BDS kills its own. (via Elder of Ziyon)

The American Studies Association’s radicals decided to take a break from studying sixth wave feminist anti-capitalist readings in Navajo weaving to boycott the only country in the Middle East that protects their kind from being murdered in the street by angry mobs.

Whom did the boycott hurt? The same people BDS always hurts. Muslims and lefties.

The ASA boycott’s first victim was a PhD student at Tel Aviv who recently completed his doctoral dissertation. His advisor was unable to recruit qualified outside readers to review the thesis due to its Israeli provenance. The fact that this same student is Palestinian (in this case, an Arab citizen of Israel) contributes an element of black comedy to an already unhappy situation.

It’s another BDS victory.

That will teach that Muslim student we’re trying to advocate on behalf of to study an academic subject that we’re trying to promote.

Most recently, Dr. Yael Sternhell has undertaken steps to organize another conference in Tel Aviv, this one to be devoted to the history of segregation. The intention is to generate a comparative discussion about racial and ethnic discrimination as practiced over the past century in the United States (which is Sternhell’s own specialty as a historian of the American South) as well as in Europe, India, Africa, and Israel. It is not yet clear whether her efforts will bear fruit, though recent experience raises serious doubts.

The aptly named Sternhell is a radical anti-Israel leftist who compares Israel to the South. Now she’s having problems organizing an anti-Israel conference accusing Israel of Segregation… because the participants are boycotting Israel.

This is like the time that Hitler accidentally bombed Mussolini.

What’s next? BDS boycotting Israeli boycotters? Then the snake can finally finish eating its own insane tail.

What does this mean in terms of the future of the Palestinian struggle? Will the ASA boycott, for instance, deter Drs. Shamir and Sternhell from continuing their own activist politics against the Israeli occupation of Palestine? I expect not. Will the ASA boycott demoralize them, politically as well as professionally? It already has.

I’m starting to like this BDS thing. Where can I sign up to professionally demoralize anti-Israel academics?

What is the source of such inanity? Why is the ASA determined to aid the forces of reaction in Israeli society while weakening those struggling on behalf of peace and coexistence?

Why do you hate us? We want to collaborate with you in destroying our own country. Stop kicking us. We’re trying to kick ourselves.

I don’t mean to suggest that there is no place for foreign intervention in bringing about an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, assuming that this is the ASA’s objective. Divestment, for instance, should continue to be one of its goals…   But international economic sanctions are a potentially powerful tool for change.

Boycott them. Don’t boycott us. We’re the good Jews.

  • Atikva

    “BDS kills its own…” well, more power to them!

  • Jerry

    In Cape Town,.ZA, BDS decided to take drastic action against a major retailer called Woolworths which sources supplies from all over the world, including Israel. They searched for but could not find a Kosher butchery counter, so they stuck severed pig heads in the Muslim “Halal” butchery counter. Allahu Kakbar!

    • Jack

      What a lying racist moron you are.

      • Jerry

        The report is factual. BDS, is a front for Islamic Jihaddi organisations and movements including Hamas, which, in Article Seven of the “Hamas Covenant” re-affirms their commitment to a genocidal agenda against all Jews of this planet.

        You support them and thus you label me a “racist moron”.

        Makes perfect Jack A.s sense, does’nt it?

        They call your kind of sense ” taqiyya” – Arabic for deliberate misleading false information in the cause of and support of
        Islam and Islamic atrocities.

  • http://bdslist.org BDSlist

    The Academic Boycott is proving a great success… more power to it. Glad to hear the Peace and Justice Studies Association has just voted 85% in favor to join in. It makes sense for the best and brightest thinkers in the field of peace and justice to join BDS.

    • UCSPanther

      We will not join your brownshirt movement. Peddle it elsewhere.

  • Gee

    Just as the ‘Palestinians’ claim a victory for harming Israel no matter how many Arabs are hurt or killed – so goes the BDS.

    There is only one reason for BDS – and that is their absolute hatred of Jews

    • Jack

      Yeah, that’s right. All anti-Israel apartheid action is just hatred of jews. Live in your little glass bubble a while longer. It will shatter soon.

  • Jack

    Yep. Boycotting buying goods from a slave camp owner sometimes hurts the slaves. They’re being slowly starved by their Israeli overlords anyway. BDS will win long term. Maybe you should point the finger at those apartheid Israelis instead. Yes, go do some good in the world instead of supporting this smug apartheid state with your smug attempt at a hit piece.