Scratch the surface of the "Film Workers Pledge" to boycott Israel and you see they are really only boycotting Jews

There have been lots of headlines over the past two days about thousands of film professionals signing a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions.

The letter  says "we pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions—including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies—that are implicated* in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people."

And what does "implicated" mean? The footnote says:

Examples of complicity include whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.

How many Israeli filmmakers justify genocide? Not one. But then you look further into the even finer print:

Despite operating in Israel’s system of apartheid, and therefore benefiting from it, the vast majority of Israeli film production & distribution companies, sales agents, cinemas and other film institutions have never endorsed the full, internationally-recognized rights of the Palestinian people.  

Those "rights," according to BDS which this is inspired by, is for Israel to be destroyed and replaced with a Palestinian state where Jews are an oppressed minority, as they were in every other Arab country for the past thousand years. 

What the boycotters are saying is that essentially every Israeli is complicit in genocide. 

Well, not every Israeli. Only Israelis who are not "Palestinian."

There are also 2 million Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, and Palestinian civil society has developed context sensitive guidelines for that community.

There are no "context sensitive guidelines" for Israeli Jews who call the government Nazi. No, they are still benefitting from "genocide." But Arab Israelis are not in that category.

So when you are only boycotting Israelis who work for the film industry who are not "Palestinians," who's left?

Gee, that's a tough question. 

Israeli Jewish filmmakers told The Guardian that they are the only people who tell the stories of Palestinians to the world in a sensitive and accurate way while describing the complexities of life in the Middle East. They want peace and cooperation between Jews and Arabs. 

This is exactly what the boycotters don't want to see.

(Of course The Guardian found one Israeli Jewish idiot who supports boycotting her own films.) 

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