Oct. 11, 2018 By Daniel Koren Manager, Media Relations & Communications B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Metro Ontario Inc., the corporation that oversees the chain of Metro grocery stores across the province, is decrying the anti-Israel, pro-BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) stickers that were recently discovered at two of its Toronto locations. “This signage was […]
I had a discussion about BDS with a friend’s husband around that time, and he basically said that he didn’t think it was fair to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel because the people didn’t deserve to be scapegoated and economically harmed for the choices of their government.
I was completely in awe of how confidently he spoke when he didn’t even know the basics of Israel’s colonial/genocidal history or what BDS was. He didn’t even know what an ethnostate was or that it’s morally fucked up to want one. I don’t talk to him anymore, because wow. Reminded me a lot of people who are anti-BLM because they don’t like loud black people.
The thing to remember is that BDS is not a revenge inflicted to punish immoral individuals. It is not demonization and it is not bullying.
BDS is a nonviolent pressure tactic to get the Israeli government to change policies. It is giving an argument to civil society organizations to say “is the apartheid worth it for us?” and “can’t we just be a normal country?”.
I had a discussion about BDS with a friend’s husband around that time, and he basically said that he didn’t think it was fair to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel because the people didn’t deserve to be scapegoated and economically harmed for the choices of their government.
I was completely in awe of how confidently he spoke when he didn’t even know the basics of Israel’s colonial/genocidal history or what BDS was. He didn’t even know what an ethnostate was or that it’s morally fucked up to want one. I don’t talk to him anymore, because wow. Reminded me a lot of people who are anti-BLM because they don’t like loud black people.
The thing to remember is that BDS is not a revenge inflicted to punish immoral individuals. It is not demonization and it is not bullying.
BDS is a nonviolent pressure tactic to get the Israeli government to change policies. It is giving an argument to civil society organizations to say “is the apartheid worth it for us?” and “can’t we just be a normal country?”.
Ask him about boycotting the usa, would he say thr same?