This one was submitted earlier today, the 25th BY AVINOAM BARAL, TAMMY RUBIN AND MIRIAM ESHAGHIAN
Here are some key hightlights:
Omar Barghouti, founder of the BDS movement: “We oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine.”
As’ad Abukhalil, a leading BDS activist: “The real aim of BDS is to bring down the state of Israel.”
The official BDS platform demands a “right of return” to Israel for all descendants of Palestinian refugees, which, in the words of President Barack Obama, “would extinguish Israel as a Jewish state.”
As Jews, we see Israel as our home, a major part of our identity and a symbol of our liberation as a people. In returning to our ancestral lands, reestablishing Jewish independence and building a thriving democracy, our people overcame nearly two millennia of dispossession and oppression across Europe and the Middle East. Thus, our self-determination is not only a right enshrined in United Nations international law, but also a guarantee that grave historical injustices will not be repeated. And yet, under the guise of justice and human rights, BDS effectively seeks to violate our collective rights and negate our existence.
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