Netanyahu:
It's Time to Delegitimize the Delegitimizers
Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu lashed out on Monday at those in Europe
who are encouraging a boycott of Israel, calling their actions “an
outrage.” “In the past, anti-Semites boycotted Jewish businesses,
and today they call for the boycott of the Jewish state,” he told a
gathering of the Conference of Presidents. “The boycotters must be
exposed for what they are: they’re classical anti-Semites in modern
garb,” Netanyahu declared, adding, “We have to fight them. It’s
time to delegitimize the delegitimizers.”
The
Prime Minister’s comments come in the wake of repeated calls for
boycotts against Israel, not just by BDS organizations but also by
the European Union (EU), which recently published new guidelines
boycotting Israeli entities operating beyond the 1949 Armistice
Lines. Among the leaders of the anti-Israel BDS campaign are
left-wing Canadian Jew Naomi Klein, Roger Waters of the band Pink
Floyd and physicist Stephen Hawking. While the BDS movement sees some
success, it has also seen quite a few failures. One such recent
example was when actress Scarlett Johansson stepped down as an
ambassador for Oxfam, after the group tried to force her to boycott
Israel by not appearing in a commercial for Israeli company
SodaStream.
Source: Arutz
Sheva
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