“I am writing to express my alarm over the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction [BDS] movement. . . I know you agree that we need to make countering BDS a priority. . . . I am seeking your advice on how we can work together across party lines and with a diverse array of voices to reverse this trend with information and advocacy, and fightback against further attempts to isolate and delegitimize Israel. . . . Particularly at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise across the world especially in Europe — we need to repudiate forceful efforts to malign and undermine Israel and the Jewish people.”
Hillary Clinton, speaking to AIPAC on March 21, 2016:
“Many of the young people here today are on the front lines of the battle to oppose the alarming boycott, divestment and sanctions movement known as BDS. Particularly at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise across the world, especially in Europe, we must repudiate all efforts to malign, isolate and undermine Israel and the Jewish people. I’ve been sounding the alarm for a while now. As I wrote last year in a letter to the heads of major American Jewish organizations, we have to be united in fighting back against BDS.”
The @NCAA is right to pull tournament games from North Carolina because of the anti-LGBT HB2 law. Discrimination has no place in America. -H
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 13, 2016
Could someone explain why it’s noble, enlightened, justifiable and progressive to boycott an American state, but hateful, bigoted, retrograde and evil to support a boycott of a foreign country that has been imposing a brutal, discriminatory and illegal occupation for many decades, a boycott that is led by people with virtually no political rights? How did that happen? Hillary Clinton is far from the only person espousing this bizarre distinction — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, as but one example, is punishing companies that support a boycott of Israel while forcing state employees to honor the boycott of North Carolina — but what could possibly justify U.S. politicians drawing the moral and ethical lines about boycotts in this manner?
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