In Defense of BDS
A letter to the European Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism about her recent conflation of the BDS movement and antisemitism.
EU and Palestinian flags hang together during a joint press conference in 2012. (Al Araby)
Dear Ms. von Schnurbein,
We wish to record our dismay at the smear campaign directed against Ana Gomes MEP following the event she held in the European Parliament on the 28th of February entitled “The Israeli settlements in Palestine and the European Union”.
It took great courage to invite the co-founder of the BDS Campaign, Omar Barghouti, especially since the European Parliament passed a resolution in May 2017 adopting guidelines which equate criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism.
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