{"id":59923,"date":"2018-03-09T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=59923"},"modified":"2018-03-01T09:13:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T07:13:24","slug":"08-00-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=59923","title":{"rendered":"WHY BDS DESERVES A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>CENTER FIELD: WHY BDS DESERVES A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

GIL TROY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I nominate BDS for the Nobel Peace Prize to expose this (dis)honor for what it has become.<\/strong><\/p>\n

BDS activists in Berlin. (photo credit: REUTERS)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A radical Norwegian MP has nominated the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement for a Nobel Peace Prize. Bjornar Moxnes says BDS uses \u201cstrictly legal and non-violent means to advance a legitimate agenda that is perfectly in line with international law and universal human rights.\u201d Moxnes is onto something. As an academic who, like legislators and judges, can nominate candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize \u2013 I second the nomination.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, BDS \u2013 more accurately called Blacklist, Demonization and Slander \u2013 is \u201cperfectly in line\u201d with what \u201cinternational law and universal human rights\u201d have become: travesties, Orwellian betrayals of their actual meaning and founding mission, and battering rams against Israel. Last year, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed five times more resolutions condemning democratic Israel than any other country.<\/span><\/p>\n

I nominate BDS for the Nobel Peace Prize to expose this (dis)honor for what it has become. It\u2019s the prize of Yasser Arafat, the grandfather of modern terrorism. He showed how to boost your cause by killing Olympic athletes, slaughtering school kids, blowing up buses, wiping out three generations of one family sitting at a caf\u00e9 \u2013 and getting away with it as long as you target Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the prize of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Human Rights Hypocrite. After years of celebrating democracy when she lacked power, now that she has power her silence as soldiers rape, massacre and exile Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, her country, teaches that if your people perpetuate crimes like ethnic cleansing, keep quiet or, if pressed, blame violence on \u201cboth sides.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the prize of Jimmy Carter, the Dupe of Despots. The ex-president is the oppressor\u2019s enabler, soft on Arafat, on Hamas, on Hafez Assad, Syria\u2019s old autocrat, soft on tyrants in North Korea and Haiti too. Carter demonstrates a great way to earn a Nobel Peace Prize: suck up to dictators.<\/span><\/p>\n

The BDSers fit in with these scoundrels. Like Arafat, they justify terrorism, encouraging the Palestinians\u2019 sick fantasy of destroying Israel. Their demonization of Israel draws on traditional antisemitism, treating Israel as the collective Jew threatening innocents \u2013 and green-lighting Palestinian violence. Read their founding call of July 9, 2005, caricaturing Israel as \u201ccolonial,\u201d practicing \u201cracial discrimination\u201d and being \u201cbuilt mainly on land ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian owners.\u201d Those lies delegitimize Israel, justifying Israel\u2019s destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

True, BDS has a powerful impact on Middle East peace \u2013 it derails it. It encourages extremists who fear any two-state compromise, while sabotaging liberals trying to build ties. To skeptical Israelis, BDS proves that anyone who hates us so much they wish to quarantine us can\u2019t be trusted, won\u2019t ever compromise and seeks our annihilation. Palestinian calls for anti-normalization have undermined people-to-people projects that had Israelis and Palestinians cooperating \u2013 and of course, has most hurt lovely left-wingers \u2013 Israeli, Palestinians, Europeans, Americans, trying to build bridges.<\/span><\/p>\n

And BDS, with its antisemitism-masquerading-as-anti-Zionism, has unleashed harsh Jew hatred on campuses worldwide. No wonder Bassam Eid, the Palestinian human rights activist who, seeking a real Palestinian civil society, bravely criticizes Palestinian corruption, autocracy and terrorism, fears: \u201cBDS tactics are a prelude to the destruction of the Palestinians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So yes, if the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to continue awarding sinners and suckers, give the BDS people the prize. But first, be honest. Stop the charade. Call the (once) Nobel Peace Prize, the Ignoble War Prize.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, good, sane people who want to help Palestinians, Israelis and advance peace should award Bassam Eid for his courage; honor the women Zionists of the Hadassah Medical Organization for creating hospitals which are healing spaces where Jews and Arabs work together to serve humanity; or consult the speaker\u2019s list at yesterday\u2019s tenth annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twenty-five authentic human rights NGOs assembled a galaxy of human rights superstars, who aren\u2019t politically correct. They\u2019re simply morally upright, confronting dictators \u2013 even if the UN excuses their commandant-in-chief. Speakers included Antonia Ledezma, a Venezuelan opposition leader who fled political imprisonment; Asli Erdogan, Turkish novelist, former political prisoner; Farida Abbas Khalaf, freed Yazidi Islamic State slave, author of The Girl Who Beat ISIS; Kasha Jacqueline, Ugandan LGBT activist; Julienne Lusenge, Congolese women\u2019s rights champion fighting rape as a weapon of war; Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary tortured by North Korea; Maziar Bahari, journalist and filmmaker tortured by Iran; Maryam Malekpour, the sister of Saeed Malekpour, imprisoned in Iran for \u201cspreading corruption on earth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At the conference, once again protecting the world\u2019s rejects, defending beaten, oppressed, never-quite-silenced democratic heroes who risk everything for ideals we take for granted, was my McGill colleague Prof. Irwin Cotler, former Canadian justice minister and MP, now heading the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (where I am a senior fellow). If he won a Nobel, Cotler\u2019s record would Make that Peace Prize Noble Again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, BDS\u2019s liars and spin doctors are hailing the nomination as a moral victory. Zaki Bani Irsheid of the Islamic Action Front claimed the nomination indicates \u201cgrowing support of the Palestinian cause in western communities\u201d and proves \u201cthe Zionist lobby\u2019s influence is breaking down.\u201d Such hype overlooks Moxnes\u2019 marginality, chairing as he does the ultra-left Red Party, holding one seat in Norway\u2019s 169-person parliament. It overlooks the fact that tens of thousands of no-name academics like me could nominate anyone from Bart Simpson to O.J. Simpson for the prize.<\/span><\/p>\n

Being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize truly is meaningless. The committee has until October to decide if the prize itself has become meaningless too.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The writer is the author of The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s. His forthcoming book, The Zionist Ideas, which updates Arthur Hertzberg\u2019s classic work, will be published by The Jewish Publication Society in Spring 2018. He is a Distinguished Scholar of North American History at McGill University. Follow on Twitter @GilTroy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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