JERUSALEM POST
Combating BDS by legislation: Different approaches, same goal
by Alan Dershowitz
June 22, 2016

…Before examining these legal differences, I should state the obvious: governors and legislatures are morally and politically right to counter-boycott BDS. The so-called BDS movement is part of a broader campaign to delegitimize, demonize and discriminate against the nation state of the Jewish people, and to undermine any reasonable prospect of a negotiated peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The claim of BDS advocates that their bigoted boycott is really about promoting international respect for human rights is demonstrably false. If BDS were concerned with human rights, it would target first the worst human rights offenders and those regimes that permit no dissent or access to justice. But the so-called BDS movement does not target Iran, China, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, Cuba or other such offenders (indeed many BDS advocates seek to increase ties with Iran, Cuba, and China despite their horrid record on human rights). Instead BDS targets only one nation: the democratic nation state of Israel, which, despite being subjected to terrorist attacks virtually on a daily basis, has a free press and an independent judiciary. READ MORE