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| A march held by members of New York Students for Justice in Palestine. Source: JCPA. |
By Sean Savage
Jewish News Syndicate
“The New Anti-Semites: The Radicalization Mechanism of the BDS Movement and the Delegimitization Campaign Against Israel” seeks to expose “the BDS faux ‘civil rights’ movement for what it is—a delegitimization campaign with genocidal aims, rather than the human-rights movement that it purports to be.
Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntiSemitism.org, told JNS that the report serves to highlight the fact that the delegitimization of Israel is, in actuality, anti-Semitism.
“Our landmark report brings to light powerful evidence that the delegitimization campaign against Israel is promoting Jew-hatred and uses classic anti-Semitic tropes, language and imagery,” she said. “For far too long, BDS has been able to masquerade as a social-justice movement in America, while spreading vile Jew-hatred, and inciting hate and violence. By exposing the history, methods and networks of the new anti-Semites, we are empowering the American people to effectively combat it.”
The 120-page report, which was endorsed by 23 Jewish and Christian American NGOS, comes just days after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to combat anti-Semitism on American college campuses that clarified the definition of anti-Semitism to address the growing hate stemming from BDS.
The report highlights approximately 100 individual instances of anti-Semitism within the wider delegitimization campaign against Israel, including 30 organizations, in addition to leaders and activists.
Moreover, the report “reveals the process utilized by the delegitimization campaign to radicalize the discourse surrounding Israel from legitimate criticism into delegitimization, and finally, blatant anti-Semitism.”
According to the report, these groups accomplish this by exploiting a gap in the scope of anti-discrimination laws in the United States, which do not explicitly define anti-Semitism to include anti-Semitism, and has been used by BDS proponents to declare their campaign as not being anti-Semitic.
“The same humanitarian pretense affords the campaigns leaders and prominent organizations the ability to express their anti-Semitic beliefs freely and perpetuate the radicalization of the discourse on Israel. As a result, individuals, although sometimes unknowingly, are being used as pawns to promote hate and lend legitimacy to what is, in fact, a radical anti-Semitic movement,” it adds. “The legal loophole of anti-Zionism not being explicitly defined as a form of anti-Semitism must be closed by incorporating the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition into all federal and state anti-discrimination laws.”
‘United in Their Goal of Destroying Israel’
Marc Greendorfer, president of the Zachor Legal Institute, told JNS that the report seeks to expose the ties between the BDS movement and terrorist groups.
“The information presented in our report ‘The New Anti-Semites’ documents the inherent discrimination promoted by adherents of the BDS movement. Our report is meant to complement the report published earlier this year from Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Terrorists in Suits, which detailed BDS’s extensive ties to designated terrorist organization,” he said.
Last February, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs released a report, “Terrorists in Suits” that found that Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine activists had infiltrated organizations that call for the boycott, divestment and sanctions of Israel.
The report, which examined 13 international BDS organizations, discovered that senior positions were held by 30 terror activists—20 of whom who had actually spent time in prison for their crimes, including murder.
Additionally, the report also determined that global interconnections between BDS and terror organizations were vast, with more than 100 connections being identified.
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