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2020-04-08 01:05:01 UTC
The cofounder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
(BDS) movement, which urges a complete boycott of Israeli-made
products, encouraged the movement's supporters to seek out one Israel-
made product, if it materializes: a vaccine to inoculate them against
the coronavirus.
The pandemic has created a dilemma for BDS, a Palestinian-led movement
that wages economic warfare on Israel by pressuring other countries to
boycott it. Israeli researchers said on Thursday they could begin
testing the active component of a potential vaccine by June 1. If
successful, the treatment could save countless lives in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip. Israel's assistance, however, would undermine the
efforts of BDS supporters to crush Israel's economy.
The leader of the BDS movement, Omar Barghouti, said in a webinar
Sunday that it is "not a problem" for movement supporters to use
medical equipment from Israel.
"Cooperating with Israel against the virusto begin with, we didnt
consider it normalization," Barghouti said in an Arabic language
Facebook webinar first reported by the Jerusalem Post.
"Normalization" is defined by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic
and Cultural Boycott of Israel as "participation in any project,
initiative or activity, in Palestine or internationally, that aims
(implicitly or explicitly) to bring together Palestinians (and/or
Arabs) and Israelis (people or institutions) without placing as its
goal resistance to and exposure of the Israeli occupation and all forms
of discrimination and oppression against the Palestinian people." That
strategy does not extend into health care, according to Barghouti.
"The BDS announced normalization criteria long ago," he said. "If
Israel finds a cure for cancer, for example, or any other virus, then
there is no problem in cooperating with Israel to save millions of
lives."
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,
told the Washington Free Beacon that "hypocrisy is the middle name of
BDS."
"BDSers are hypocrites just following the examples of Hamas and
Palestinian Authority, whose leaders rush to Israeli hospitals when
they or their children are suffering, yet pursue zero tolerance for any
normal contact with their Israeli neighbors," he said. "Bottom line,
BDS is a hypocritical, ideologically inspired anti-Israel campaign."
Roz Rothstein, CEO of the pro-Israel nonprofit StandWithUs, said the
scenario exposed the inability of BDS to stick to its ideology and
"refuse medical innovations for the Palestinian people."
"This hypocrisy is certainly not unusual for them," Rothstein said.
"Although they work hard towards Israel's destruction, they will
continue to benefit from Israel's generosity while being dishonest
about how Israel regularly helps the Palestinians and the rest of the
world."
The Anti-Defamation League calls BDS anti-Semitic for its efforts to
delegitimize Israel and deny the Jewish state a right to self-
determination. The movement has links to Palestinian terrorist groups,
according to investigations by Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs
and numerous media outlets.
"It's amazing to see Barghouti claim the BDS movement prioritizes
saving lives when Barghouti himself openly advocates terrorism against
Israelis," said Jacob Baime, the executive director of the Israel on
Campus Coalition. "He wants his life saved by the very people he's
trying to eradicate. That's chutzpah."
The BDS Facebook page accused Israel of exploiting Palestinians and of
"looting [the] land, arrests, oppression and killing" during the
pandemic. Yet the United Nations has praised Israel for its "excellent"
cooperation with the Palestinian Authority to combat the coronavirus.
BDS proponents are following the lead of Iranian hardliners, who
reassured followers that they could accept a cure originating in
Israel. Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, a top Iranian cleric,
said in March that it would be permissible to use an Israeli-
manufactured vaccine if there were "no substitute." The leaders of
Iran, one of the world's hardest-hit countries by coronavirus,
frequently call for Israel's destruction.
"The Ayatollahs will push their way to the front of line for Israeli
medicines that will save their own hides even as they threaten
genocide," Cooper said.
Top Palestinian officials and their family members have received
treatment from Israeli physicians over the years.
Israel reportedly sent a doctor to Ramallah to help save Palestinian
Authority president Mahmoud Abbas last year from life-threatening ear
infection complications. Senior Fatah leader Jibril Rajoub, who spent
15 years in prison for throwing a grenade at an Israeli army bus near
Hebron in 1970, was treated in an Israeli hospital in 2019. The
daughter of former Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh received medical
treatment in Israel following the Gaza War in 2014.
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(BDS) movement, which urges a complete boycott of Israeli-made
products, encouraged the movement's supporters to seek out one Israel-
made product, if it materializes: a vaccine to inoculate them against
the coronavirus.
The pandemic has created a dilemma for BDS, a Palestinian-led movement
that wages economic warfare on Israel by pressuring other countries to
boycott it. Israeli researchers said on Thursday they could begin
testing the active component of a potential vaccine by June 1. If
successful, the treatment could save countless lives in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip. Israel's assistance, however, would undermine the
efforts of BDS supporters to crush Israel's economy.
The leader of the BDS movement, Omar Barghouti, said in a webinar
Sunday that it is "not a problem" for movement supporters to use
medical equipment from Israel.
"Cooperating with Israel against the virusto begin with, we didnt
consider it normalization," Barghouti said in an Arabic language
Facebook webinar first reported by the Jerusalem Post.
"Normalization" is defined by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic
and Cultural Boycott of Israel as "participation in any project,
initiative or activity, in Palestine or internationally, that aims
(implicitly or explicitly) to bring together Palestinians (and/or
Arabs) and Israelis (people or institutions) without placing as its
goal resistance to and exposure of the Israeli occupation and all forms
of discrimination and oppression against the Palestinian people." That
strategy does not extend into health care, according to Barghouti.
"The BDS announced normalization criteria long ago," he said. "If
Israel finds a cure for cancer, for example, or any other virus, then
there is no problem in cooperating with Israel to save millions of
lives."
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,
told the Washington Free Beacon that "hypocrisy is the middle name of
BDS."
"BDSers are hypocrites just following the examples of Hamas and
Palestinian Authority, whose leaders rush to Israeli hospitals when
they or their children are suffering, yet pursue zero tolerance for any
normal contact with their Israeli neighbors," he said. "Bottom line,
BDS is a hypocritical, ideologically inspired anti-Israel campaign."
Roz Rothstein, CEO of the pro-Israel nonprofit StandWithUs, said the
scenario exposed the inability of BDS to stick to its ideology and
"refuse medical innovations for the Palestinian people."
"This hypocrisy is certainly not unusual for them," Rothstein said.
"Although they work hard towards Israel's destruction, they will
continue to benefit from Israel's generosity while being dishonest
about how Israel regularly helps the Palestinians and the rest of the
world."
The Anti-Defamation League calls BDS anti-Semitic for its efforts to
delegitimize Israel and deny the Jewish state a right to self-
determination. The movement has links to Palestinian terrorist groups,
according to investigations by Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs
and numerous media outlets.
"It's amazing to see Barghouti claim the BDS movement prioritizes
saving lives when Barghouti himself openly advocates terrorism against
Israelis," said Jacob Baime, the executive director of the Israel on
Campus Coalition. "He wants his life saved by the very people he's
trying to eradicate. That's chutzpah."
The BDS Facebook page accused Israel of exploiting Palestinians and of
"looting [the] land, arrests, oppression and killing" during the
pandemic. Yet the United Nations has praised Israel for its "excellent"
cooperation with the Palestinian Authority to combat the coronavirus.
BDS proponents are following the lead of Iranian hardliners, who
reassured followers that they could accept a cure originating in
Israel. Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, a top Iranian cleric,
said in March that it would be permissible to use an Israeli-
manufactured vaccine if there were "no substitute." The leaders of
Iran, one of the world's hardest-hit countries by coronavirus,
frequently call for Israel's destruction.
"The Ayatollahs will push their way to the front of line for Israeli
medicines that will save their own hides even as they threaten
genocide," Cooper said.
Top Palestinian officials and their family members have received
treatment from Israeli physicians over the years.
Israel reportedly sent a doctor to Ramallah to help save Palestinian
Authority president Mahmoud Abbas last year from life-threatening ear
infection complications. Senior Fatah leader Jibril Rajoub, who spent
15 years in prison for throwing a grenade at an Israeli army bus near
Hebron in 1970, was treated in an Israeli hospital in 2019. The
daughter of former Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh received medical
treatment in Israel following the Gaza War in 2014.
--
Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
love this country.