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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153042#.T0VFZXkY07o Finkelstein Sparks Outrage Within BDS Movement
BDS activists, Finkelstein and Chomsky, acknowledge that the movement calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.
By Rachel Hirshfeld
First Publish: 2/22/2012, 9:00 PM
Zeev Shemer
In a surprising and atypical interview, last week, controversial author and ‘Palestinian’ rights activist, Norman Finkelstein called the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement “a cult.”
Finkelstein's comment sparked outrage within the BDS movement and other, like-minded, anti-Israel groups. The video which had been spreading widely on the Internet, was soon removed by 'Palestinian' activists clearly were dismayed with Finkelstein for defending Israel’s right to exist.
Noam Chomsky, controversial historian and avid 'Palestinian' activist, and has voiced similar criticism of the BDS movement, citing the “hypocracy [that] rises to heaven,” and questioning why other countries haven’t been the targets of such boycotts due to “human rights” concerns. Chomsky even “went so far as to suggest the movement was calling for the ‘destruction of Israel,’” Campus Watch reported.
“While no one can gauge individual motivations for persons in the BDS movement, the movement as a whole is going about its activism all wrong. Urging the self-determination of Palestine isn't innately anti-Semitic. But cutting off, and in essence damning, the whole of the Israeli people because of the policies of the current (or past) administration(s), ignores and inflames an issue of great complexity. A crisis of this magnitude will never find itself bettered without an approach that is sensitive, subtle, and mindful,” Campus Watch stated.
“Lumping the entire Israeli people together through calls for a wide-sweeping boycott is not the answer… such categories are feeble in their ignorance,” it continued.
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