“Boycotts work”: An interview with Omar Barghouti. ElectronicIntifada.net, 31 mei 2009. "A common secular democratic state: one person, one vote — regardless of ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, and so on and so forth ...Full equality under the law with the inclusion of the refugees ... this must be based on the right of return for Palestinian refugees."
Israel's Military Intelligence Monitoring Dozens of BDS Groups Around the World — While the IDF is responsible for foreign groups, local groups supporting BDS are monitored by the Shin Bet. Gili Cohen, Haaretz, 18 augustus 2015 (premium)
"Among the overseas organizations monitored by Military Intelligence are dozens affiliated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, though groups with the same goals working within Israel are not monitored by the department."
Israel's anti-BDS Ministry Pushes to Keep Its Activities Secret. Jonathan Lis, Haaretz, 16 mei 2017 (premium)
"Last year, it was reported that the ministry recruited personnel to head a "smear campaign" division in charge of collecting information on "organizations and those who lead de-legitimization in order to create counter-de-legitimization including directly and through non-governmental entities."
Israel Secretly Using U.S. Law Firm to Fight BDS Activists in Europe, North America — Israeli government hired lawyers to counter BDS; nature of work is kept a secret, and defined as 'extremely sensitive'. Haaretz, 26 oktober 2017
"The government has been secretly using a U.S. law firm to help it fight the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement in Europe, North America and elsewhere, according to documents obtained by Haaretz."
"The Strategic Affairs Ministry transfers some of the money to the Foreign Ministry in various places worldwide and some money has been given to Jewish organizations overseas for public relations work on campuses and elsewhere."
BDS: how a controversial non-violent movement has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian debate. Nathan Thrall, The Guardian, 14 augustus 2018.
"Since its founding 13 years ago, it has acquired nearly as many enemies as the Israelis and Palestinians combined. [...]
... the charge of apartheid ... was not merely a provocative analogy to South Africa but a legal claim, based on the crime of apartheid as defined in international conventions and the founding statute of the international criminal court: [...]
The more deeply entrenched this one-state reality became, the more resonant the charge of apartheid, and the more difficult to imagine undoing it through partition into two states. [...]
Perhaps Israel’s most powerful tool in the campaign against delegitimisation has been to accuse the country’s critics of antisemitism. Doing so required changing official definitions of the term. This effort began during the final years of the second intifada, in 2003 and 2004, as pre-BDS calls to boycott and divest from Israel were gaining steam."
Omar Barghouti – Strategies for change (5:32-6:05), video van interview uit 2013.
"A Jewish state in Palestine in any shape or form cannot but contravene the basic rights of the land’s indigenous Palestinian population and perpetuate a system of racial discrimination that ought to be opposed categorically. As we would oppose a Muslim state or a Christian state, or any kind of exclusionary state, definitely, most definitely we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine."
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Israeli minister: Criticizing Israel is the new anti-Semitism. Voormalig minister Ayelet Shaked in de Washington Post van 4 mei 2016:
"In the past, we saw European leaders speaking against the Jews. Now, we see them speaking against Israel. It is the same anti-Semitism of blood libels, spreading lies, distorting reality and brainwashing people into hating Israel and the Jews,"
Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS. BDS-movement, 9 juli 2005
"We, representatives of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era."
EJA Annual Conference 2018- day 2. EJA, nov 2018
"followed by a return to the conference venue for a plenary where we voted on our red lines [...] All political parties to pass, in accordance with their respective rules of procedure, binding resolutions that reject BDS activities as fundamentally anti-Semitic."