Netanyahu: BDS Advocates ‘Should Be Treated as We Treat Any Anti-Semite or Bigot’

PJ Media ^ | 3/5/14

[Impala64ssa]

Over the course of the three-day AIPAC conference in Washington, politicians delivered speeches overwhelmed by audience skepticism over the Obama administration’s Iran deal and what the White House’s Middle East peace process framework might look like in the end.

But one issue that took on a new life proved to be the glue that brought politics and the 14,000 AIPACers together: the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns.

Like the fizzy fruits of a SodaStream, BDS bubbled to the top of the one-liners that consistently brought the crowd to its feet and helped some political figures during addresses that were otherwise on shaky ground.

On Monday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed with “every fiber of my being” to keep Iran from getting a nuke, stressing “we must keep tough sanctions in place until Iran agrees to give up nuclear weapons.”

He encouraged the crowd to look on the bright side of President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry’s negotiations, though, claiming “whatever you think of President Obama on other issues, it cannot be disputed” that he made sanctions have enough teeth to get Iran to the negotiating table and lined up partners to accomplish this task.

Schumer didn’t bring down the house until he stressed the anti-Semitic roots of the BDS movements.

“It is very suspicious that those who promote boycotting Israel do not seek boycotts against any other nations in the world, particularly those nations in the Middle East whose human rights records include hanging dissenters from cranes in city squares and imprisoning and torturing critics of the government,” the senator said. “I believe that those who call for boycotts of Israel without calling for boycotts of other neighboring nations whose human rights records are in fact reprehensible are practicing,-snip- a modern form of what we call anti-Semitism.”

[Impala64ssa]

Schumer on the right side of an issue for a change. Too bad he's a member of the political party that brought us the klan, Jim Crow, and made anti-Semitism an art form.

[Norm Lenhart]

He’s a regular Chuck “Schlinder” come election season...

[Lonely Bull]

Netanyahu: BDS Advocates ‘Should Be Treated as We Treat Any Anti-Semite or Bigot’

But one issue that took on a new life proved to be the glue that brought politics and the 14,000 AIPACers together: the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns.

Heh. To this day, I see "BDS" and think "Bush Derangement Syndrome."

(Well, there's this obviously recent thread: "MSNBC's Maddow: G.W. Bush Is to Blame for Ukraine Crisis.")

[GBA]

“whatever you think of President Obama on other issues, it cannot be disputed” that he made sanctions have enough teeth to get Iran to the negotiating table and lined up partners to accomplish this task.

I should trust anything he says?

Luke tells me that "One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much."

I trust Chuck Schumer to be Chuck Schumer and am more inclined to believe obama's poll numbers are giving him reasons to say whatever necessary for his job security.

[montag813]

What about sanctions and divestment against China for their 50-year brutal and murderous occupation of Tibet, for which there were TWO Security Council resolutions against them?

{ c r i c k e t s }

[Vendome]

Funny they want to boycott Soda Stream, which employs their favorite disenfranchised people, so called palescaminators

[Ramius]

Uh... What is “BDS”?

[shove_it]

I thought BDS was Bush Derangement Syndrome.

[kcvl]

I had to look it up. I hate when people use alphabet abbreviations.

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a global campaign which uses economic and political pressure on Israel to comply with the stated goals of the movement: The end of Israeli occupation and colonization of Arab land, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and respect for the right of return of Palestinian refugees.

The campaign was started on 9 July 2005 by 171 Palestinian non-governmental organizations in support of the Palestinian cause for boycott, divestment and international sanctions against Israel. Citing a body of UN resolutions and specifically echoing the anti-apartheid campaigns against white minority rule in apartheid era South Africa, the BDS campaign called for “various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets its obligations under international law.”

[fruser1]

“Schumer on the right side of an issue for a change”

I doubt it. AIPAC = American Israel Public Affairs Committee which is a pro-israel lobby.

So Schumer is likely just pandering to the crowd for cash and votes.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Impala64ssa.

Schumer... claiming “whatever you think of President Obama on other issues, it cannot be disputed” that he made sanctions have enough teeth to get Iran to the negotiating table and lined up partners to accomplish this task.

That's just a baldfaced LIE, and Schumer's a baldfaced LIAR for saying it. Partisan Media Shills ping.