The Swedish government funds numerous Israeli and Palestinian NGOs that lead campaigns and political activities that are inconsistent with Swedish government policies to promote peace and a two-state framework for the Arab-Israeli conflict.
NGOs that receive significant Norwegian government funding have been highly instrumental in lobbing the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) to impose a ban on Israeli companies.
The German government funds organizations that contribute to the growing demonization of Israel and BDS campaigns. Such funding is a major source in manipulating German societal perceptions of Israel and constitutes a misuse of taxpayer monies.
Gerald M. Steinberg maintains that by standing firm, Johansson and the owners of SodaStream demonstrated that even the most full-blown BDS attacks can be defeated.
As acknowledged by BDS ideologues and stated in the declaration of the 2001 Durban NGO Forum, the objective of BDS is the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state using the strategy of exploiting the rhetoric of human rights and false apartheid analogies to demonize and isolate Israel.