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\"\"<\/a>Unmasking BDS: A new method to fight the movement has emerged, and it’s working<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Barry Shaw<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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From Radiohead’s adamant refusal to take the heat from anti-Israel advocates to the bestseller “BDS for Idiots,” the fight against the movement is going strong.
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\n Rod Stewart arrives in Israel ahead of his concert in Tel Aviv, June 13, 2017. (photo credit:LIOR KETER)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

After decades of allowing the BDS Movement a free playing field on which to spin their allegations against Israel, a trend is discernible that is making headway into the jumble of their narrative. Slow but sure progress is being made against the radical accusations that have been fired at the Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n

The old tactic of branding Israel as the Start-Up Nation had limited value. What benefit is it extolling the wonders of Waze if the other side is using negative emotional imagery of a Zionist state as child-killers and brutal occupiers? Instead, a new strategy took root. Take Israel out of the equation. Put the spotlight onto our enemies. Concentrate on the messaging and the character of our BDS adversaries. Target those who are attacking Israel and Jews, and retaliate directly at them. Expose them and expose their hypocrisy and lies.<\/span><\/p>\n

The anti-Israel BDS advocates are caught in a trap of their own making, namely the paucity of their argument and often the deep antisemitism that drives them.<\/span><\/p>\n

The battle has been joined and rapid progress has been made. Part of the offensive involves the naming and shaming of Israel\u2019s BDS enemies. Often this is done via the social media as with the Canary Mission website that documents individuals and groups promoting hatred against Israel and Jews on college campuses in America. Their site catalogues people and groups listing their names, locations, which radical group they belong to, the roles they play, and detailing the negative actions or statements made by them.<\/span> Their profile usually includes a headshot photo. Often the person\u2019s profile includes their social media presence.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past, entertainment figures wielded influence in the cultural world. Recently, their radical bias has been exposed and they are increasingly ignored. One example is Roger Waters of \u201cPink Floyd\u201d fame. Once a BDS icon, he has become a laughingstock, trashed by artists who ignored his demands for them to boycott Israel. Aerosmith was quickly followed by Radiohead, Rod Stewart and the Pet Shop Boys in performing in front of huge crowds in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

After pressuring Radiohead for months, the band\u2019s Thom Yorke clobbered Waters in a scathing Rolling Stone interview telling him, \u201cIt\u2019s deeply disrespectful to assume that we are either so misinformed or retarded that we cannot make decisions ourselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yorke went on, \u201cI thought it was patronizing in the extreme, really upsetting, that an artist I respect thinks we are not capable of making a moral decision ourselves after all these years.\u201d<\/span>
\n Radiohead\u2019s moral decision was to come to Israel and entertain their multicultural fans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Asher Small, the founder of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) at McGill University, told attendees at the Annual IDC Herzliya Conference that his NGO is working on the documentary, \u201cWish You Weren\u2019t Here,\u201d which examines contemporary antisemitism and the BDS movement. He points to Waters\u2019s history of anti-Jewish imagery, including having a floating balloon in the form of a pig at his earlier concerts with a Star of David and dollar signs emblazoned on its body, and his comparisons of Israel to the Nazis. A new ISGAP website calls to boycott Waters\u2019s concerts in reprisal. The website wedontneedrogerwaters.com asks people to sign a petition urging others to avoid his concerts in protest.<\/span><\/p>\n

A 2016 best-selling book, \u201cBDS for Idiots,\u201d urged anti-BDS campaigners to take Israel out of the equation when debating BDS activists and instead to concentrate on the BDs narrative. The book suggests we are engaged in an intellectual ju jitzu fight in which our anti-BDS campaigners need to find the BDS weak spots, of which there are many, and use them effectively to unbalance and ultimately defeat their arguments.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book details with glaring facts how those who profess to be pro-Palestinian are caught out not really caring and even damaging Palestinian lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evidence of this became clear when BDS protests led SodaStream to move its factory from Mishor Adumim in Judea and Samaria to the Negev, causing unemployment for hundreds of Palestinian workers. Palestinians lives were damaged, but BDS looked at this as a victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, Sodastream and the Israeli government found a way in which Palestinian workers can be bused to the new Rahat factory to be reemployed and reunited with their Jewish and Beduin co-workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

This case clearly illustrates who harms and who cares for Palestinian workers. It exposes the fraudulent message of BDS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pro-Israel groups have been surprised to discover the relative ease in setting back BDS by going on the offensive.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Spain, Angel Mas and his pro-Israel ACOM legal organization has repealed several BDS actions taken by Spanish cities by applying law against council decisions to boycott Israel. They include La Guardia, the Rivas Vacia district of Madrid, the Olesa district of Barcelona, Campezo and Valencia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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