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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

03/15 Links Pt1: Russia’s Anti-Ukraine Propaganda Has Its Roots in Soviet Anti-Semitism; Neoconservatism: A Vindication; Jewish groups call for pre-Purim fast for Ukraine, Zelensky

From Ian:

Russia’s Anti-Ukraine Propaganda Has Its Roots in Soviet Anti-Semitism
Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, and Ukraine’s resistance has confirmed some old assumptions, shattered prevalent illusions, and led to a remarkable response by the democracies. It also offers yet another example of the disastrous consequences of antisemitism that emerged in the Soviet Union and has persisted in the decades since its demise.[1]

Putin justified his aggression against Ukraine with a lie. Ukraine, he said, had to be “de-Nazified.”[2] Ukraine today is the only state in the world besides Israel that has a President and a Foreign Minister who are Jewish. Accusing political opponents within, liberal democracies outside the Soviet bloc, and Israelis of being fascists and Nazis is a lie with deep roots in the history of the Soviet Union’s foreign policy after World War II. In the anti-cosmopolitan and antisemitic purges of 1949 to 1953, the Soviet Union hurled the accusation at Communists who supported the state of Israel, and at political opponents who rejected the Communist one-party. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union repeatedly denounced the United States and West Germany as fascist or Nazi. In 1961, when East Germany built the Berlin Wall–a wall that turned that country into a prison with seventeen million inmates–it described it as “the anti-fascist protection wall.”[3]

In 1967, Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko at the United Nations described Israel’s military operations as examples of “fascist aggression.” During the Yom Kippur War of 1973, his successor, Jakob Malik compared Israel’s response to the Arab state attack to Nazi aggression during World War II in Europe.[4] The Israeli as Nazi canard spread to the radical left around the world. On the West German far left, it served to justify terrorist attacks against Israelis as a form of revolutionary anti-fascism. Such falsehoods about Israeli democracy played a role in Islamist and radical leftist attacks on Israel.[5]

This reversal and transformation of the meaning of antifascism from what it meant during the years before and during World War II and the Holocaust was consequential. It lent apparent legitimacy to what were, in fact, antisemitic and false conspiracy theories about the policies of Israel. Sadly, the Soviet Union achieved great success with its “Israeli as Nazi” propaganda. Associating attacks on the Jewish state with the language of antifascism comprised a crucial chapter in the reemergence and renewed respectability of antisemitism in the international radical left during the Cold War. So, it is not at all surprising that Putin, whose roots lie in the Soviet era KGB intelligence services, denounced Ukraine as a state of Nazis and fascists.

Putin’s aim to “de-Nazify” Ukraine has had predictable and grave consequences. They are evident on our TV, computer and smart phone screens as missiles and artillery shells—and cluster bombs—crash into Ukrainian civilian areas—just as they did in Aleppo and other cities in Syria not so long ago. The Nazi accusation is enormously dangerous because, for civilized humanity, Nazism represents absolute and radical evil. Hence, if, you describe your enemy or adversary as a Nazi and assert that the Ukrainians used their rights as citizens to vote for Nazi leaders, then those civilians are also guilty of complicity in this Nazism. Thus, the cruise missiles and artillery shells crashing into civilian homes and apartment buildings in these days are, from Putin’s perspective, part of a noble battle against a Nazified Ukraine. The accusation leads to a policy that abolishes the distinction between soldiers and civilians in an era in which modern weaponry makes that distinction possible. This mendacious and corrupt version of antifascism serves as a justification for viewing the civilian population of Ukraine as a legitimate military target. It serves as an immoral justification for what international law now recognizes as war crimes.
Russia-Ukraine conflict: ICJ to rule Wednesday on genocide claims
The United Nations' International Court of Justice will rule on Wednesday regarding accusations of genocide in Ukraine.

The announcement was made on the ICJ's Twitter account that it would announce its decision on the case, which has been named "Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation)."

The ruling is set to be made at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, at 4:00 p.m. local time.

The ruling is in response to a suit Ukraine filed on February 27 following Russia's accusations that it was committing genocide against Russian speakers. Ukraine denies these allegations, with President Volodymyr Zelensky saying that Russia is distorting and manipulating the very concept of genocide as a pretext to invade his country.

"Russia must be held accountable for manipulating the notion of genocide to justify aggression," Zelensky wrote on his Twitter account. "We request an urgent decision ordering Russia to cease military activity now and expect trials to start next week."
John Podhoretz: Neoconservatism: A Vindication
In 2022, the idea that Vladimir Putin’s Russia would actually roll the tanks and march the soldiers across the border into Ukraine seemed so irrational and peculiar to the Western consciousness that most of us—and in that “us” I would even include the heroic Volodymyr Zelensky—were living in a kind of weird haze of disbelief and denial that it could even happen.

Then it did.

And the surprise Jimmy Carter had felt in 1979 was as nothing compared to the shock wave across Europe in 2022. It took the United States three years to double its defense budget after the Soviet invasion. It took Germany three days. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced his country would increase its defense spending from 47 billion euros to 100 billion euros 72 hours after the Russians crossed the Ukrainian border.

History. Speeding up. And rhyming.

Will this be a hinge moment in history as well? If so, the rhymes of history may be heard in the surprising present urgency of neoconservatism.

Throughout the 1970s, the band of writers and thinkers who came to be known as “neoconservatives” had taken defiantly unfashionable positions when it came to matters of defense and foreign policy. The neoconservatives opposed negotiations and treaties with the Soviet Union, which they considered a great evil. They reviled the United Nations for its “Zionism is racism” resolution at a time when the UN was almost sacrosanct (millions of little boys and girls across America, including me, had proudly toted orange tzedakah boxes on Halloween to raise money for UNICEF). And they feared that the United States had, in the wake of Vietnam, undergone what a 1975 symposium in this magazine called “A Failure of Nerve” that would have global consequences.

The general opinion among the American cognoscenti was that the neoconservatives were hysterics and vulgarians incapable of seeing shades of gray. A more mature sense of the world’s complexity was supposedly represented first by the hard-won realism of the establishmentarians who had embraced the policy of détente with the Soviet Union—and second, by hipper foreign-policy thinkers whose worldview was encapsulated by Carter’s May 1977 declaration that America had gotten over its “inordinate fear of Communism.”

Then came 1979. The year began with the Iranian revolution engendering an oil crisis. By the end of the year, Iran’s fundamentalists had taken 52 American diplomats hostage as crowds chanted “Death to America” in the greatest public humiliation the United States had ever experienced as a nation. A thousand miles from the U.S. border, Nicaragua fell to a puppet guerrilla army of the Cubans and the Soviets while a similar puppet force was threatening to do the same in El Salvador—thus potentially creating a Soviet-friendly anti-U.S. bloc on the American subcontinent.

Suddenly the vulgarity of the neoconservatives didn’t seem quite so vulgar. But they remained prophets without much honor in the quarters in which they had traveled for most of their adult lives. Both the old and new establishments were largely impervious to the way history was vindicating their warnings and fears.


Jewish groups call for pre-Purim fast for Ukraine, Zelensky
Russia’s war on Ukraine was only a week old when Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz tweeted a bold suggestion: He called for a Jewish fast day dedicated to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Now, Borovitz is among a growing number of Jews who are planning to dedicate a traditional fast this week to Ukraine, in hopes of delivering spiritual strength to the forces defending that country from Russia.

The day before Purim is known as Ta’anit Esther, or the Fast of Esther, when many observant Jews fast from sunrise to sunset. It is an an echo of the fast that Esther, the heroine of the Purim story, asked the Jews of Shushan to observe before she petitioned the king to save them from a murderous villain intent on their destruction.

“Esther asked the people to fast because she wanted through the fasting of the Jewish people to give her strength, which is, I think, a deep idea in the Jewish tradition,” Borovitz told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

About Zelensky, he said, “This is a Jew in the world who needs our strength right now.”

Borovitz works with Hillel International in Berlin as part of a rabbinic career that he said was spurred by his two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine a decade ago.


Ukraine’s Zelensky to address Israeli lawmakers via Zoom on Sunday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address Knesset members via Zoom next week, it was reported on Tuesday.

The event will be held after an initial request to address lawmakers via video link was rebuffed, officially because the Knesset is in recess and renovations will be taking place in the building.

After an outcry, Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy spoke with Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk on Tuesday and reiterated his invitation to Zelensky to address members of the Knesset via Zoom.

The address is slated to be held on Sunday at 6 p.m.

Efforts are underway to ensure that as many MKs as possible will attend the special session next week, even though the Knesset is in recess, the Ynet news site reported.

The Walla site said that it was hoped that by holding the event over Zoom, lawmakers who are abroad on delegations would also be able to attend.

This would not be the first time Zelensky has addressed a country’s lawmakers via Zoom. Earlier this month he held a call with US lawmakers, and he will deliver a virtual address to Congress on Wednesday.

After the initial request to give a virtual address to the Knesset was rejected, Ukraine reportedly asked to hold a large rally at Yad Vashem that would be addressed by Zelensky to discuss Russia’s invasion of his country.
Kyiv's mayor learns from the IDF how to defend Ukraine
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has been a fighter his entire life.

The former World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion knocked out dozens of boxers from around the world during his first career.

But Klitschko, who then shifted to politics and has been the mayor of Ukraine’s capital since 2014, has never faced a fight like the current one against Russia.

The Russian army’s 64-km.-long military column outside Kyiv presents a formidable challenge.

In a Skype interview with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, Klitschko says his models for how to win against all odds are Israel – a country he has visited and admires – and the IDF, which has been successful in mobilizing and maximizing its reservists.

“We have to learn from Israel how to defend our country, with every citizen,” he said. “If they love the country, they need to be ready to defend the country. We have a lot to learn from Israel because we need every citizen to defend his home and his future.”

Klitschko has built strong ties with Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Yaakov Bleich and other Jewish leaders. His father’s mother is Jewish, and he has been told many times by Jews that they wished it was his grandmother on his mother’s side who was a member of the tribe, so that he would be a Jew by Jewish law.
Ukraine Orthodox Church head: 'Killing Russian invaders isn't a sin'
Killing Russian soldiers isn't a sin, Metropolitan Epiphanius I of Ukraine, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, said Monday in a telethon, as reported by Ukrainian state media Ukrinform.

"We, as a nation, do not wish death to our neighbors," Epiphanius was reported to have said. "However, since they came to our land, we're defending our land. Protecting ourselves is not a sin."

The archbishop blessed the Ukrainian people in their fight against Russia.

This is not the first statement he has made regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine: A previous statement in late February argued that "the spirit of the anti-Christ operates in the leader of Russia."

He claimed that the "signs" were revealed to indicate this, citing "Pride, devotion to evil, ruthlessness [and] false religiosity."

This "was [Nazi leader Adolf] Hitler during World War II," Epiphanius claimed: "This is what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has become today."
Symbol of Resistance as EU Leaders Head to Kyiv ‘Where History Is Forged’
Three European prime ministers rode a train for Kyiv on Tuesday, the first visit by foreign leaders to the Ukrainian capital since Russia launched its invasion, and a striking symbol of Ukraine’s success so far in fending off Russia’s assault.

“It is our duty to be where history is forged. Because it’s not about us, but about the future of our children who deserve to live in a world free from tyranny,” said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who set off across the border with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Janez Jansa of Slovenia.

Fiala said the aim was “to confirm the unequivocal support of the entire European Union for the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.”

They will arrive in a city still under bombardment, where around half of the 3.4 million population has fled and many are spending nights sheltering in underground stations.

Two powerful explosions rocked the capital before dawn on Tuesday and tracer fire lit up the night sky. A high-rise apartment building was in flames after being struck by artillery.
Tom Gross: Putin’s war proves a useful distraction from Western leaders’ domestic problems

Tom Gross: What do western media think their armies were doing in Afghanistan for the past 20 years?



Israel to Deploy $6.4 Million Field Hospital in Ukraine, Named After Golda Meir
The Israeli government on Monday approved the deployment of a $6.4 million field hospital in western Ukraine to provide aid and medical assistance to refugees.

The one-month humanitarian mission is named “Kochav Meir” (Shining Star) in honor of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who was born in Ukraine and became somewhat of a local hero since Russia’s invasion of the country.

Meir also founded Israel’s development and aid agency Mashav, which is spearheading the project.

“Israel is part of the world, and the world is going through difficult and tumultuous times,” said Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. “We are managing this complex crisis with sensitivity, responsibility and are making an effort to offer assistance however we can.”

The hospital will operate with the help of Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, the Schneider Center, the Clalit Health Insurance Fund, and a delegation of medical and nursing personnel from across the health system.

It will include several divisions, including a children’s ward, a maternity ward and delivery room, an emergency ward, a primary care clinic, an outpatient clinic, and a command center. Laboratory and imaging capabilities, including X-ray labs, will be available, as well as remote medicine technologies pioneered by Sheba.

The mission will be funded by the Health Ministry, the Prime Minister’s Office, and the Foreign Ministry, with the assistance of the Schusterman Foundation and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

“Our humanity is measured first and foremost in times of crisis,” said Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz. “We are committed in every possible way to help the Ukrainian people who are under brutal attack.”


JPost Editorial: Increasing the number of refugees allowed into Israel is the right thing
The guidelines Shaked announced are intentionally ambiguous. For instance, she said relatives of Israeli citizens will be allowed to stay in the country for a limited time, but she did not define the term “relatives” – though Tomer Moskowitz, the director-general of the Population and Immigration Authority, said in a radio interview that it is restricted to first degree relatives, “not every third cousin.”

Moskowitz acknowledged that the government’s change of policy indicated that the original policy of 25,000 shouldn’t have been implemented. It is a positive development that the government can recognize a mistaken policy, and change it.

In a similar vein, it is welcome that foreign minister Yair Lapid made clear on Monday that Israel would abide by the Western sanctions imposed on Russia. But here, too, this should have been Jerusalem’s policy from the outset, not something it was pushed into – this time by outside forces, not domestic ones.

“Israel will not be a route to bypass sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and other Western countries,” Lapid said in Slovakia in comments that cannot be divorced from US criticism that the Jewish state has not fallen fully in line with the West’s sanctions against Moscow. On Friday, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland admonished Israel that it doesn’t “want to become the last haven for dirty money that’s fueling [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s wars.”

Increasing the number of refugees to be allowed into the country – beyond the estimated 200,000 Ukrainian Jews and their relatives eligible to immigrate under the Law of Return – as well as preventing the use of Israel to get around sanctions, is the right thing to do. It’s just a shame the government had to be pushed into doing it.


Passengers on El Al flight to Bucharest carry boxes of aid for influx of refugees
These are unusual times, and an El Al flight on Monday from Tel Aviv to the Romanian capital of Bucharest reflected today’s current situation.

On Sunday, an email from El Al, followed up on Monday morning with a phone call, asked passengers if they would be willing to carry a package of humanitarian aid on board — a box containing items from medicine to baby food and diapers that could be delivered to Ukrainian refugees arriving in Romania within hours of the plane’s arrival.

The joint initiative between El Al, the Sasa Setton organization — which supports education for hospitalized children in Israel — and the Center for Jewish Impact was kicked off for the first time on Monday.

Many passengers aboard the flight agreed to serve as couriers.

The flight was packed. It included a delegation from Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva made up of two doctors and two Russian-speaking nurses planning to spend the week giving medical checkups to Ukrainians bound for Israel.

Also on board were Israelis of Ukrainian descent traveling to help bring their loved ones out of the war-torn country.


Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski 4th journalist killed in Ukraine
Pierre is the 4th foreign journalist to be killed by Russian forces while reporting in Ukraine. Many others including a Sky News team were attacked by Russian forces during the war.

"We have confirmed that cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski was killed on Monday in Ukraine during an incident that also left the network’s correspondent Benjamin Hall hospitalized," Fox News reported on Tuesday.

Prior, an American journalist was killed and another wounded by Russian forces in Irpen near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, the Kyiv Region Police head said Sunday.

The killed journalist was identified by Ukrainian police as Brent Renaud, a 51-year-old journalist, filmmaker and US citizen. While Ukrainian authorities initially identified Renaud as a The New York Times correspondent, he was not in Ukraine reporting on behalf of The Times.

The journalist Victor Dudar was lost during hostilities near Nikolaev. Live cameraman Yevhen Sakun was killed in a rocket attack in Kyiv.

Two journalists from the Czech edition of Voxpot, Maida Slamova and Vojtech Bogach, came under fire from Russian troops. Two Danish Ekstra-Bladet correspondents, journalist Stefan Weichert and photographer and reporter Emil Filtenborg Mikkelsen, were shot.


Did Peter Beinart Just Blame Israel For Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?
In an article in The Guardian titled, “The US supports illegal annexations by Israel and Morocco. Why the hypocrisy?,” Peter Beinart draws a parallel between Russia’s incursion into Ukraine and Israel’s defensive actions during the 1967 Six-Day War.

In the piece, Beinart suggests that the United States should no longer continue providing the Jewish state with military aid because doing so would “make Ukraine, Taiwan and every other weaker nation bordered by a rapacious neighbor more vulnerable.”

Beinart frames his argument by quoting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who described Russia’s aggression as an affront to “Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” as well as “gross violation of international law.”

Beinart proceeds:
Remaking borders by force violates a core principle of international law. Which is why the Biden administration must do more than resist Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. It must stop violating that principle itself.

Beinart writes this in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, accusing the Jewish state of disregarding “a core principle of international law” when it annexed the Golan Heights that were “seized from Syria in the 1967 War.”

What Beinart fails to note is that, in stark contrast to Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, Israel, which indeed gained control of parts of the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War, had been attacked by neighboring Arab countries and as such, was forced into fighting for its very survival.

Indeed, regional leaders in the run-up to launching the 1967 war launched by neighboring Arab states against Israel (in a manner similar to Putin’s invasion), repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel. Not only did then Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser impose a blockade of Israeli goods through the Straits of Tiran, itself an act of war, all while ordering a massive military buildup and demanding the removal of UN peacekeeping forces monitoring the shared border, but top Arab officials repeatedly made genocidal statements — such as the following by then Syrian defense minister (and later president) Hafez Assad:
Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse any aggression, but to initiate the act ourselves, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland of Palestine. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united. I believe that the time has come to begin a battle of annihilation.

Moreover, Beinart blithely ignores the fact that Syria remains in the throes of a decade-plus-long war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, and that the country is run by a murderous dictator. Beinart also discounts the strategic importance of the area as it relates to Israel’s security, even as Iranian-backed fighters are trying to remilitarize the region so that they may one day exterminate Israel.


MEMRI: Antisemitic Article In Qatari State Daily: Putin Invaded Ukraine To Stop The Corrupt Jews From Establishing A Presence There
In his March 13, 2022 column in the Qatari state daily Al-Watan, Palestinian journalist Samir Al-Barghouti wrote that the real reason for the Russian invasion of Ukraine is President Putin's desire to prevent the Jews from establishing a presence on Russia's border. The column states that Jews have begun migrating to Ukraine with the intention of turning it into a place sacred to them, and that Putin, who is aware of the "danger" represented by the Jewish nation, went to war in order to prevent the Jews from harming Russia. Rife with antisemitic allegations and historical errors, the column goes on to blame the Jews for a series of historic events, including the assassination of American presidents Lincoln and Kennedy and of Russian Czar Nicholas II, financing the Soviet leaders Stalin and Lenin, planning the attack on the World Trade Center, stealing the gold of Chinese emperors, toppling the Ottoman caliphate and "selling the Middle East to the West for the lowest possible price," among other things.

The following are translated excerpts from his column:
"Putin's stated reason for launching the all-out war [against Ukraine] is [his demand] that Ukraine be a neutral country and his opposition to the presence of NATO forces on the Russian border. But [the real reason,] which is presently secret, is the Jewish immigration to Ukraine, which started recently, and the [Jewish] declaration that the sanctity of Jerusalem will be transferred to the sky of Kiev. The meaning of this is the arrival of a nation that Putin knows is dangerous, and President Putin, who came from [Russian] intelligence, will not allow those who are harming the U.S. and Europe to harm Russia [as well]. He sees Ukraine as an outpost for harming Russia, and [already] suffers from the history of the Jews and what they have done in Russia and the world.

"Putin knows what the Jews did in the Byzantine Empire in Russia [sic], and his sleep is troubled when he reads that [the Jews] executed [Russian Czar] Nicholas II, along with his entire family in 1918 after the Bolshevik Revolution. He is aware that the circles of global Zionism financed Stalin, Lenin and the crimes committed by the Bulak [sic][2] for 70 years, during which 62 million Russians were executed. He has a dossier on the unrestrained capitalist imperialism that will [only] come to an end – as the great Kuwaiti intellectual Faisal Madouh says – by eliminating the Israeli entity, which is the head of the foremost [imperialist] serpent. He [also] knows that [the force] behind Napoleon's revolution was the Jewish capitalist Rothschild, that the Jews own the [U.S.] Federal Bank – which prints U.S. dollars – and that they were responsible for the carrier pigeons by means of which they took control of the central bank of Britain.[3] He knows about Adam Weishaupt[4] and Shabbatai Zevi,[5] who were behind the Dönmeh cult, [6] whose members converted to Islam in order to infiltrate the Turkish parliament and sold the Middle East to the West at the lowest possible price after they toppled the Ottoman caliphate.

"Putin believes that the Jews, [descendants of the] Khazars,[7] caused the death of 26 million out of the 62 million Russians [who were killed in the Gulag]. He knows that the Jews are behind the fall of currencies and control the arms trade in the West; that they planned… the toppling of the Twin Towers in the World Trade Center; that they are behind the Evangelical Christians and the Mormons in the U.S…. that they were responsible for the assassination of American president Abraham Lincoln… and [president] John Kennedy, who tried to close down the Federal Bank; that they stole the gold of the Chinese emperors and started the war between China and Japan, and that they are behind the masked Shylocks and dukes of Venice.[8]

"Putin does not want these people on his border, after they declare that the sanctity of Jerusalem will be replaced with the sanctity of Ukraine and have started migrating there because the end of their [stay] in Palestine is coming near."
CTV News Montreal Gives Soapbox To Anti-Israel Groups In Coverage of Boycott Against Russia
As the Russia-Ukrainian war rages on, efforts to boycott Russia and those affiliated with Vladmir Putin’s regime, is gaining steam in a number of Western countries, including Canada.

For example, 20-year-old Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev was scheduled to perform with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in mid-March, until his performance was cancelled as a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Importantly, it’s noteworthy that Malofeev condemned the Russian invasion on social media, but despite this, the young Russian’s piano performance was cancelled, which prompted outcry that he was being discriminated against by way of national origin.

While media coverage of this controversy is certainly newsworthy, when Selena Ross, Digital Reporter from CTV News Montreal, reported on the story on March 10, the article managed to shoehorn in an entirely different subject, referring to activists “who have studied and organized major sanction campaigns, such as those against Israel and South Africa.”

Ross interviewed Corey Balsalm, national coordinator of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Canada, an organization which supports the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement against Israel, and quotes him by saying “If we’re looking to the example of the Palestinian BDS movement, they’re very clear that individuals are not targeted.”

Despite Balsalm’s whitewashing, in reality, the BDS movement has actively and aggressively attempted to boycott anyone or anything, even remotely connected with Israel.






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