Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (better known by its acronym, BDS) is an international campaign to delegitimize the State of Israel as the expression of the Jewish people’s right to national self-determination by isolating the country economically through consumer boycotts, business and government withdrawal of investment, and legal sanctions. Critics allege that the group crosses the line from opposition to Israeli policy or to the administration of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into open anti-Semitism. 2 It also echoes the Arab League’s failed boycott of Israel, which the organization has claimed to maintain since 1948 amid numerous defections.49 The organization has condemned American54
BDS Response to Hamas Attack
On October 7, 2023, the BDS movement published a press release blaming Israel for the Hamas massacres of Israeli citizens. The movement claimed that “Israel’s far-right government is the most racist, fundamentalist and fanatic ever” and had “been ruthlessly escalating its ethnic cleansing, siege, killings, incarceration, and daily humiliation of millions of Indigenous Palestinians.” BDS condemned Western governments for their lack of context and disregard for the alleged history of oppression of Palestinians by Israel. BDS said that Israel is “drunk with power and impunity as a result of unconditional US and European collusion, funding and arming.” BDS claimed that oppression is the root of violence and so justifies Hamas’ violence against Israel. BDS said that its tactics of divestment and sanctions “are the most ethical and strategic forms of international solidarity to end all oppression and all violence.” 0){
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