“ anti-Israel (“pro-Palestinian”) ….anti-Jewish or anti-Israel”

What does that mean? The implication is that one who is pro-Palestinian is really anti-Jewish. But how could this be? Can someone, by the nature of being born to Palestinian parent(s) and therefore pro-themselves and their community be inherently anti-Jewish? Can you not uphold the dignity of one group without putting down another? If you cannot, how can one in good conscious be pro-a-whole-group-of-people? Why do you have to be anti-Palestinian? Can’t we just be pro-Human?

Brazen Truth on Israel

Here in the UK, where support for the BDS Campaign is understood by all fair minded people in academia and elsewhere, there is growing dismay about the daily life the Palestinian community have to tolerate in the Holy Land.
To enable your correspondent and readers to grasp the situation I take a look at these You Tube reports.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNlcH7Tejd8

http://youtu.be/c4ZfnpN4Dfc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gymxY2zM8

http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/map_1620.pdf

Thank you for your time
James from the United Kingdom

So a Penn alum’s wife gets to write for the DP…

About an “Arab War Against Israel” ??

About “Arab Storm Troopers” ??

Lady, you cray cray

Oh, and you racist.

nice personal attack. way to verbally chastise a lady and not address a single thing! what an idiot

Notice how there are about four times as many anti-BDS articles as pro-BDS ones. “War against Israel?” more like a war against free speech. Please forgive me if I decide to make my own informed decision on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rather than listen to hyperbolic suggestions that link freedom of expression to the holocaust. I don’t understand why we on this campus can’t figure out to have POLITE discussions on matters without resorting to mud-slinging. Fine, you disagree with them. Say it civilly. Criticism of Israel does not make one anti-Semitic—we can critique our own government’s actions, why can’t we speak up against others? Make your point without hyperbole please—it makes for a more civil and harmonious debate.

“BDS is built on a brazen lie. The stories and pictures fed to the public are carefully crafted — all to “prove” that Israel is usurper, occupier, human-rights abuser. Facts don’t support this — but facts don’t surface when one side controls all.”

Neither side controls all!

As a scholar who specializes in the history of the Middle East, I can attest that what Ms. Dzubow writes in her letter is true.

All the shouting and sloganeering from those who, for whatever their reasons, hate the world’s single Jewish State, doesn’t change the facts.

People who are exposed to the lies and historical distortions presented by the BDS movement have a simple choice: they can jump on its bandwagon of scapegoating and hate, or they can choose to look deeper into the facts, and take the lonely road of morality and fairness.

Ultimately, it is your own soul and its yearning for truth that you must answer to. Even against the loud hate-shouting mob with their made-up justifications for the cruel, discriminatory policies of BDS.

I can’t help thinking that James must be living in a different United Kingdom to me.
BDS is supported by a minority group of ill informed people who do not have the sense to realise that boycotts do nothing to help the Palestinains and indeed often harm them. The vast majority of “fairminded people” who are prepared to listen to truth and context arewell aware of how damaging and counter productive BDS is. I do hope those who support it are consistent in their b oycotting and do not take advantage of the many benefits Israeli research and technological and medical developments have brought to the world. For a start I do hope the computer they are using does not have a pentium chip, or that they do not use a mobile phone or voicemail or the many other technological benefits that have changed the world. Also while I do not wish the BDS brigade any personal harm I do trust they are vey careful to look at any medication they take and make sure it does not owe its existence to Israeli medical research. If they suffer from cancer, Alzheimers, MS, Cystic Fibrosis, Parkisnons or even the common cold they must be sure that they do not benefit from any of the remarkable progress Israel is making in combatting these. As for academics I am pleased to say that joint UK Israeli research and development goes on al the time, and that the level of cooperation beteeen “fairminded people” and at grass roots level in Israel and the territories continues to bring mutual benefit
By the way the BDSers need to talk to Arab Israelis and other minority groups in Israel including refugees from Africa and other oppressed places currently seeking refuge in Israel, and their eyes will be open to the fact that practically every single Israeli Arab would not want to live anywhere else and values their Israeli citizenshp. It is important not to forget there are many Jewish Israel Palestinians as well by the way.

As the husband of the passionate Zionist who wrote the article, I am continually amazed at the vitriol and unsubstantiated biasdness directed towards Israel based solely on proaganda created by the anti-Israel lobby.

Israel – the only Democracy in the Midddle East.

Israel – who has the greatest number of Nobel Prize Winners in the world proportionate to its population

Israel – one of the first countries to respond with medical assistance to catastropic disasters around the world (e.g. Haiti, Japan, etc.)

Israel – a major exporter of computer and healthcare technology that benefits all on mankind

And what is the major contribution of the Palestinians – antisemitism and hatred of Israel.

But why confuse the issues with the facts?

Mrs. Dzubow is right that the Jews of Israel are not “usurpers.” They are the indigenous people of the land. The Arabs are called Arabs because they come from Arabia. The Jews are called Jews because they come from Judeah.

The question is what to do today. The Arabs must negotiate without preconditions as asked by the Quartet and the U.S. The Arabs must stop embracing terrorists like Hamas, PFLP, Al Aqsa Brigade, Hezbollah, et al. They must embrace peace. Accept the existence of the one and only Jewish State of Israel and accept the peace she has been offering since she was re-established in 1948.

BDS activists against Israel ignore Syria burning up before our eyes. The BDS anti-Israel claim that they are “only standing up for human rights” is shown to be bogus. They don’t oppost Syrian atrocities now going on for almost a uear. It is only Israel’s right to exist that they truly oppose

BDS activists against Israel ignore Syria burning up before our eyes. The BDS anti-Israel claims that they are “only standing up for human rights” is shown to be bogus. They don’t oppose Syrian atrocities now going on for almost a year. It is only Israel’s right to exist that they truly oppose.