“BDS” stands for the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel. I’d like to take this time to dismantle some of the major antisemitic lies put forward by BDS.
1. BDS claims that there is an Israeli sponsored genocide of Palestinians. This is blatantly false. The Palestinian population has tripled and risen at the same rate as the Israeli population since 1967. Populations do not triple in genocide.
2. BDS claims Israel is an ethno State. This is blatantly false. Israel is about 70 percent Jewish. This includes Jews of other races. Including the tens of thousands of Black Ethiopians that Israel saved from genocide by sending in Boeing 747s and flying them to Israel. 20.1 percent of Israeli citizens are Palestinians. They have all of the same exact rights and privileges as all other Israeli citizens. They have more rights than Palestinians are granted by the PA and Hamas. That’s why they moved there. In comparison 80 percent of the UK is white, and some Scandinavian countries are almost 100 percent white and nobody is calling them an ethno state. The truth is that Israel is a safe space for Jews. It is a haven that is safe from government sponsored genocide. It is the only place on the planet that this is true. In every other country on earth there is a possibility that Jews will be rounded up and killed in genocide. It has happened in some capacity almost once a century for the past 2,000 years. Jews in diaspora are in danger. This is especially apparent the last few years. The rise in antisemitism, and antisemitic hate crimes has been exponential. In most western governments, both sides of the political isle have elected officials that are blatantly antisemitic. Currently jews are fleeing Europe in huge numbers and going to Israel to escape antisemitic violence and harassment. In contrast to Israel, surrounding Arab nations have a zero percent Jewish population. They have actually removed Jews.
3. BDS claims Israeli is committing apartheid against Palestinians in Gaza. This is false. Israel is being accused of what Hamas and other Arab governments are causing. The reason Gaza has no infrastructure has nothing to do with Israel. Israel is not stopping them from developing. The reason they have no real infrastructure is because all of their funding is stolen by the PA and Hamas to finance terrorism and propaganda campaigns like BDS. In fact Israel tries to send humanitarian aid to Gaza and it is taken by Hamas. Hamas says they refusing it because they refuse to take help from Jews, but in reality they are greedy and take it for themselves. They also blame the blockade and lie about what the blockade is. The blockade does not stop supplies and food from reaching Gaza. It is solely for stopping weapons. The truth is that Hamas lives lavishly while Gaza’s people suffer. They deflect and blame Israel for the purpose of keeping the focus off themselves. Now the Gazans are catching on and protesting Hamas. Hamas’s response is to kill them. For weeks Hamas has been shooting Palestinians in the street and we here almost nothing about it from BDS. It’s because Hamas doesn’t want that truth out there. This is because Hamas oppresses and controls Palestinians like the Italian mob did to people in Italy.
4. BDS claims Gaza is an open air prison. This is somewhat true, but not because of Israel. This is actually caused by other Arab counties. Palestinians can move to Israel before they could ever move to a surrounding Arab country. This is because in 1959 the Arab league adopted resolution 1547. This states that all Arab nations will deny citizenship to any Palestinians to perpetuate the right right of return. The reasons for this stem from antisemitism that is 1,300 years old. This has created a perpetual refugee crisis. One in which Hamas doesn’t want to ever end because when that ends, their funding and control over Gaza comes to an end. If Palestine wins, they lose. They will have no place to operate hide from anti terrorist authorities.
5. BDS claims that Israel commits human rights violations and targets Palestinian civilians. This is blatantly false. Israel solely targets Hamas terrorists and the infrastructure they use to launch rockets in to civilian populations. Unfortunately Hamas chooses to do this from densely populated neighborhoods. Hamas purposely uses Palestinians as human shields. Fortunately Israel knows this and does their best to prevent non combatants from being hurt or killed. Before they strike they actually call every phone in the area and drop pamphlets from the air that warn people when they will strike and to leave that area. Unfortunately Hamas actually forces people to stay in those areas. On top of that Hamas sends its operatives to Palestinian protests to commit acts of violence while hiding amongst the crowd. They recruit woman and children too. They will dress them as civilians too. This is for the purpose of manipulating the world in to thinking Israel is targeting peaceful protests, but when the numbers are examined the vast majority of people that are hurt or killed by the idf are Hamas operatives. For instance Hamas actually claimed that 60 of the 62 people killed in the large protests in Gaza earlier in the year were Hamas operatives. This was later confirmed by international intelligence agencies. News organizations actually redacted stories and apologized to Israel. The reality is that 30,000 people were rushing the border fence of Israel and Israel defended its self against armed attackers that were throwing Molotov cockatiels and shooting rifles at them.The reason these are called human rights violations is because 2/3s of the countries on the UN human rights council are openly and unapologetically antisemitic. Therefore every time jews defend themselves from violent attack on their own land, they label it a human rights violation.
6. BDS says Israel has expanded. The truth is that Israel actually only has 17 percent of the land they were originally mandated. They have given up the vast majority of the land in the name of peace. They haven’t been in Gaza or other areas in over a decade. Their current tiny expansions are in disputed territories. There were agreements that Israel would not build there, that were based on peace treaties. Those peace treaties were violated by Hamas. Therefore they are null and void.
7. BDS says Jews are colonizing white Europeans, and Zionism is racist. First off, BDS doesn’t not get to redefine Zionism and twist it to mean something that it is not. The definition of Zionism is simple. It means the return of an indigenous people to their homeland. That’s it. Calling Jews white Europeans is scientifically and historically false. The DNA of most Jews in Europe has matching DNA of bones found in the Levant from over 5,000 years ago. The DNA of modern Jews matches the DNA of the Canaanite tribes that were there before Judaism was even a religion. Israel is the indigenous homeland of most Jews. This is also proven in archaeological evidence other than bones. There is ancient Hebrew on tablets, coins, books, etc. This was non disputed history until BDS came around. The bottom line is that BDS is committing antisemitic revisionism. For 2000 years Jews have never been excepted as white because of these very reasons. Now all of a sudden they are told they are white by people that have no knowledge of Jewish history because they are white passing. That’s racist. That’s like telling a white passing African American they’re not black anymore.
8. BDS says Israel is denying the Palestinians a state. The is blatantly false. Israel has proposed a two state solution 8 times since 1937. Even before 1967, Jews were trying to compromise a solution for Jews to be able to live in Israel in peace. Yet every single time, the Palestinian leadership has betrayed the Palestinian people and refused a two state solution. Their reasoning is that they refuse to live near or with Jews. They want all the land or none of the land. This is why they chant ‘from the river to the sea’ and ‘death to the Jews. This is because their ideology is based in Islam based Arab supremacy that is 1300 years old. This is not a strike against Muslims. This is a reference to history of the Islamic colonization of the entire Middle East. This brings me to my next point.
9. BDS claims that Zionism is white people oppressing brown people. This is a very clever way to trick Americans by applying western racial dynamics to the Middle East where the same dynamics do not exist. We’ve already covered why Jews are not white, but we haven’t covered the historical racial dynamics of the Middle East. The historical truth is that Arab supremacist armies violently conquered and colonized the Middle East in the same exact way that European white supremacist armies colonized the Americas. The Arab armies murdered and pillaged every tribe in their way the same way white peoples. Massive genocides. The Israelite tribes were among them. They’re still doing it to the Kurds. Again this is not a strike against Muslims, this is just the history of the region. There were many empires made like this that have all come and gone.
10. Israeli Jews are like Nazis. This is blatantly antisemitic and false. The fact that I even have to say this disgusts me. In fact, during World War Two, the Palestinian leadership worked directly with Hitler and tried to convince him to invade the Middle East and kill all the Jews there too. Leading members of modern Palestinian political parties have direct ties to these old parties and were formed from those old parties. Many of them still wave the swastika flag. In reality BDS is defending actual Nazis while vomiting antisemitic acts.
11. BDS says Jews and Arabs got along fine before modern Israel. This is false. I send this out when people tell me Arabs and Jews lived peacefully before Zionism – this list only goes till 1967. It’s actually longer now. It’s a list of all the times Arabs have committed systemic violence against Jews. 622 – 627: ethnic cleansing of Jews from Mecca and Medina, (Jewish boys publicly inspected for pubic hair. if they had any, they were executed)
629: 1st Alexandria Massacres, Egypt
622 – 634: extermination of the 14 Arabian Jewish tribes
822 – 861: Islamic empire passes law that Jews must wear yellow stars, (a lot like Nazi Germany), Caliph al-Mutawakkil
1106: Ali Ibn Yousef Ibn Tashifin of Merakesh decrees death penalty for any local Jew, including his Jewish Physician, and Military general.
1033: 1st Fez Pogrom, Morocco
1148: Almohadin of Morocco gives Jews the choice of converting to Islam, or expultion
1066: Granada Massacre, Muslim occupied Spain
1165 – 1178: Jews nation wide were given the choice (under new constitution) convert to Islam or die, Yemen
1165: chief Rabbi of the Moghreb burnt alive. the Rambam flees for Egypt.
1220: 10s of thousands of Jews killed by Muslims after being blamed for Mongol invasion, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Egypt
1270: Sultan Baibars of Egypt resolved to burn all the Jews, a ditch having been dug for that purpose; but at the last moment he repented, and instead exacted a heavy tribute, during the collection of which many perished.
1276: 2nd Fez Pogrom, Morocco’ 1385: Khorasan Massacres, Iran
1438: 1st Mellah Ghetto Massacres, North Africa
1465: 3rd Fez Pogrom, Morocco (11 Jews left alive)
1517: 1st Safed Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine
1517: 1st Hebron Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine’Marsa ibn Ghazi Massacre, Ottoman Libya’ 1577: Passover Massacre, Ottoman empire
1588 – 1629: Mahalay Pogroms, Iran
1630 – 1700: Yemenite Jews were considered “impure” and thus forbidden to touch a Muslim or a Muslim”s food. They were obligated to humble themselves before a Muslim, to walk to the left side, and greet him first. They could not build houses higher than a Muslim”s or ride a camel or horse, and when riding on a mule or a donkey, they had to sit sideways. Upon entering the Muslim quarter a Jew had to take off his foot-gear and walk barefoot. If attacked with stones or fists by Islamic youth, a Jew was not allowed to defend himself. (anti-Zionist miss those days)
1660: 2nd Safed Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine’ 1670: Mawza expultion, Yemen
1679 – 1680: Sanaa Massacres, Yemen
1747: Mashhad Masacres, Iran’
1785: Tripoli Porom, Ottoman Libya’
1790 – 92: Tetouan Pogrom. Morocco (Jews of Tetouan stripped naked, and lined up for Muslim perverts)’
1800: new decree passed in Yemen, that Jews are forbidden to wear new clothing, or good clothing. Jews are forbidden to ride mules or donkeys, and were occasionally rounded up for long marches naked through the Roob al Khali dessert.’
1805: 1st Algeris Pogrom, Ottoman Algeria’
1808 2nd 1438: 1st Mellah Ghetto Massacres, North Africa’
1815: 2nd Algeris Pogrom, Ottoman Algeria’
1820: Sahalu Lobiant Massacres, Ottoman Syria’
1828: Baghdad Pogrom, Ottoman Iraq’ 1830: 3rd Algeris Pogrom, Ottoman Algeria’
1830: ethnic cleansing of Jews in Tabriz, Iran’
1834: 2nd Hebron Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine’
1834: Safed Pogrom, Ottoman Palestne’
1839: Massacre of the Mashadi Jews, Iran’
1840: Damascus, ritual killings (Muslims, along with french Christians kidnapped, tortured, and killed Jewish Children for entertainment), Ottoman Syria’
1840: blood libels introduced to the Muslim world from Europe.’
1844: 1st Cairo Massacres, Ottoman Egypt’
1847: Dayr al-Qamar Pogrom, Ottoman Lebanon’
1847: ethnic cleansing of the Jews in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine’
1848: 1st Damascus Pogrom, Syria’
1850: 1st Aleppo Pogrom, Ottoman Syria’
1860: 2nd Damascus Pogrom, Ottoman Syria’
1862: 1st Beirut Pogrom, Ottoman Lebanon’
1866: Kuzguncuk Pogrom, Ottoman Turkey’
1867: Barfurush Massacre, Ottoman Turkey’
1868: Eyub Pogrom, Ottoman Turkey’
1869: Tunis Massacre, Ottoman Tunisia’
1869: Sfax Massacre, Ottoman Tunisia’
1864 – 1880: Marrakesh Massacre, Morocco’
1870: 2nd Alexandria Massacres, Ottoman Egypt’
1870: 1st Istanbul Pogrom, Ottoman Turkey’
1871: 1st Damanhur Massacres,Ottoman Egypt’
1872: Edrine Massacres, Ottoman Turkey’
1872: 1st Izmir Pogrom, Ottoman Turkey’
1873: 2nd Damanhur Massacres, Ottoman Egypt’
1874: 2nd Izmir Pogrom, Ottoman Turkey’
1874: 2nd Istanbul Pogrom, Ottoman Turkey’
1874: 2nd Beirut Pogrom,Ottoman Lebanon’
1875: 2nd Aleppo Pogrom, Ottoman Syria’
1875: Jerba Island Massacre, Ottoman Tunisia’
1877: 3rd Damanhur Massacres,Ottoman Egypt’
1877: Mansura Pogrom, Ottoman Egypt’
1882: Homs Massacre, Ottoman Syria’
1882: 3rd Alexandria Massacres, Ottoman Egypt’
1890: 2nd Cairo Massacres, Ottoman Egypt’
1890, 3rd Damascus Pogrom, Ottoman Syria’
1891: 4th Damanahur Massacres, Ottoman Egypt’
1897: Tripolitania killings,Ottoman Libya’
1903 & 1907: Taza & Settat, pogroms, Morocco’
1890: Tunis Massacres, Ottoman Tunisia’
1901 – 1902: 3rd Cairo Massacres, Ottoman Egypt’
1901 – 1907: 4th Alexandria Massacres,Ottoman Egypt’
1903: 1st Port Sa”id Massacres, Ottoman Egypt’
1903 – 1940: Pogroms of Taza and Settat, Morocco’
1907: Casablanca, pogrom, Morocco’
1908: 2nd Port Said Massacres,Ottoman Egypt’
1910: Shiraz blood libel’
1911: Shiraz Pogrom’
1912: 4th Fez , Pogrom, Morocco’
1917: Baghdadi Jewish Inquisition, Ottoman empire’
1918 – 1948: law passed making it illegal to raise an orphan Jewish, Yemen’
1920: Irbid Massacres: British mandate Palestine’
1920 – 1930: Arab riots, British mandate Palestine’
1921: 1st Jaffa riots, British mandate Palestine’
1922: Djerba Massacres, Tunisia’
1928: Ikhwan Masacres, Egypt, and british mandate Palestine.’
1928: Jewish orphans sold into slavery, and forced to convert t Islam by Muslim Brotherhood, Yemen’ 1929: 3rd Hebron Pogrom British mandate Palestine.’
1929 3rd Safed Pogrom, British mandate Palestine.’
1933: 2nd Jaffa riots, British mandate Palestine.’
1934: Thrace Pogroms, Turkey’
1934: 1st Farhud Massacres, Iraq’
1936: 3rd Jaffa riots, British mandate Palestine’
1936: 2nd Farhud Massacres, Iraq’
1941: 3rd Farhud Massacres, Iraq’
1942: Mufti collaboration with the Nazis. plays a part in the final solution’
1942: Struma disaster, Turkey’
1942: Nile delta Pogroms, Egypt’
1938 – 1945: Arab collaboration with the Nazis’
1945: 4th Cairo Massacres, Egypt’
1945: Tripolitania Pogrom, Libya ‘
1947: Aden Pogroms’
1947: 3rd Aleppo Pogrom, Syria’
1948: “emptying” of the Jewish quarter of Damascus, Syria’
1948: 1st Arab Israeli war (1 out of every 100 Jew was killed)’
1948: Oujda & Jerada Pogroms, Morocco’
1948: 1st Libyan Inquisition of Jews’
1951: 2nd Libyan Inquisition of Jews’
1955: 3rd Istanbul Pogrom, Turkey’
1956: 1st Egyptian Inquisition of Jews’
1965: 5th Fez Pogrom, Morocco’ 1967: 2nd Egyptian Inquisition of Jews’
1967: Tunis riots, TunisiaIn
Conclusion, who is BDS at their core? They are an an antisemitic propaganda wing of a terrorist organization who’s goal is the destruction of the Jewish people. They have stated that even if all Jews leave Israel they will still pursue them globally.
