Anti-Israeli activists were urged by their handlers to “celebrate their achievements” on July 9th by
- Publishing BDS articles in the local and national press;
- Briefing journalists on BDS activities, establish enduring relationships and make a case with them on why they should cover BDS;
- Staging public actions with focus on media, such as direct action and launching of high profile campaigns, publicize legal actions, expose violators and promote public debates;
- Use alternative media to mark the anniversary;
The day instead was marked by neither sound nor fury, nor press coverage.
I visited the Berkeley Bowl, a local independent grocer on July 9th, to see what was happening in the campaign to bully the Bowl into compliance by the local enforcers of "political correctness". The store was quiet, though I couldn’t help but notice they’ve added a new line of Israeli olive oils to their stock.The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement has a long history of failure. The single best documentation of the divestment movement can be found here
"During the very period when BDS was supposedly on the march, the size of Israel’s economy (as measured by GDP) nearly doubled from $110B to $190B. Now given that the BDS project is based on their activity having economic consequence for the Jewish state, the takeaway from this chart seems to be that such consequence has been an explosion of growth in the Israeli economy."
A recent article in Bloomberg News called the Israeli economy one of the world's "happy stories"
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman described Israel was one of the small number of countries, such as Canada and Australia, that were able to weather the current crisis well. Israel’s rebound from the global financial crisis has been powered by exports, which make up almost 50 percent of gross domestic product.
Israel’s economy expanded an annualized 3.6 percent in the first quarter of 2010, led by exports.
Omar, what were you saying about "momentum" in the BDS movement again?
Its actually ten years of failure
ReplyDelete"Those involved with boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns targeting Israel like to use the 2005 call by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel as the start date for their “movement.” This is despite the fact that BDS and the “apartheid strategy” behind it (designed to have Israel replace apartheid South Africa as a global pariah) began in 2001 at the NGO meeting associated with the now-notorious Durban “anti-racism” conference.
The revised launch date for boycott and divestment campaigns serves two purposes: to portray a project that began as a coordinated effort by Arab and Western NGOs as “welling up from Palestinian civil society,” and to flush a series of BDS disasters that took place between 2001 and 2006 down the memory hole. "
read more here:
http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=178466
It wasn't a TOTAL failure. they did get one store in New Jersey to stop carrying ISraeli dates- that happened to be grown by an Israeli Arab!
ReplyDeleteRead more here:
BDS'ers succeed - in hurting Palestinian Arabs
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/07/bdsers-succeed-in-hurting-palestinian.html
And if you are in New Jersey, stop by Corrado’s and tell them they are complete fools.....