Very good. BDS needs to be stamped out.
There shouldn't be a movement at all. Anti-Israel sentiment should be as marginalized and ostracized as neo-Nazi sentiment. If any of these white teenagers who support BDS ever spent a week in Palestine or Lebanon they would change their tune real quick.
Israel was an abandoned wasteland in the 19th century, that was why the British let the Jews have it in the first place. The Israeli Jews have worked tirelessly to build a modern, decent society in what was once a miserable desert. Their country, built from scratch, is one where you can live a decent, safe life as a member of the most oppressed minority group in the history of the world, a minority group that was the target of the largest genocide in history. They have managed to build this country despite most of the developed world oscillating between foot-dragging non-opposition and seething hatred. When Hitler ruled Germany, for instance, the British took up arms to prevent German Jews from defying quota by immigrating to Israel.
They have also managed to build this thoroughly decent country despite an absolute outpouring of bigotry and hatred from their neighbors. These neighbors desire nothing more than to complete what Hitler started by "driving the Jews into the sea." They have tried, on three separate occasions, to accomplish that goal by teaming up to murder all the Jews in Israel. Israel won all three of those wars despite facing overwhelming odds (and dealing with broken promises from the rest of the world). As part of winning those wars (which they did not start), they conquered territory, but were forced by their western "allies" to give most of it back to the people who had just tried to kill them.
Some of the territory, they kept. Some of this was territory originally promised to them anyway, and other parts of it are strategically important locations to prevent more wars. Although their Muslim neighbors, had they conquered Israel, would have exterminated every Jew on sight, the Jews try to coexist peacefully with the Muslims in these conquered territories. Unfortunately, the Muslims react to this peaceful coexistence by organizing mass-murder brigades and electing, as their leadership, a group dedicated to destroying all Jews. Thus Israel is in a constant state of war and has to defend itself against threats both from within and from without. Remember they also have had to deal with Iran and Iraq trying to get nuclear, biological and chemical weapons with the expressed intent of using those weapons to obliterate Israel.
But in America, the average white college student doesn't learn any of this. Your average kid doesn't know a damn thing about the history of Israel. They don't know what "intafada" means. They don't even know who Hamas or Hezbollah are. They don't recognize the name "Yasser Arafat." All they know about Israel is a bunch of extreme-left propaganda about how Israel is a cruel, oppressive government that commits daily atrocities against the poor, sweet, innocent Palestinian civilians while illegally occupying their land.
Let me ask you something. Why do you not hold the Palestinians, or any of Israel's neighbors, to the same standard as Israel?
Imagine if Israel were to develop biological weapons, say they had several factories producing anthrax bombs, and they explicitly said they wanted these biological weapons so they could exterminate the Palestinians.
Imagine if Israel had, in its constitution, a desire to "drive the Muslims into the gulf." Imagine if Israel organized and armed militias to commit daily atrocities against Palestinian civilians. Imagine if Israel sponsored terrorist groups in Jordan to go around blowing up school buses and hospitals. Imagine if Israel had a huge propaganda machine dedicated to spreading anti-Muslim sentiment. Imagine if Israel taught in its schools that the Muslims were all monsters who needed to be destroyed like weeds.
Imagine if Israel had, in the 1960s-70s, refused any peace talks until all Muslims agreed to leave the Palestinian territory. But they didn't do that. It was the Muslim nations refusing any peace until the Jews left Israel.
Imagine if Israel had treated the conquered Muslims the same way the Muslims intended to treat the conquered Jews.
Why is it that, despite all of this, the Jews are the bad guys and the Muslims are the good guys?
