[Opinion] On Jew-Washing And BDS
Yitzhak Santis and Gerald Steinberg describe the phenomenon of Jewish activists providing cover for double standards, demonization, and antisemitism directed against Israel.
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Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 14 Sep 2017 |
Yitzhak Santis and Gerald Steinberg describe the phenomenon of Jewish activists providing cover for double standards, demonization, and antisemitism directed against Israel.
The decision by Presbyterian Church (USA) to reject divestment was both moral and a fitting rebuff to the decade-old worldwide NGO political war that seeks to co-opt major Christian denominations to the anti-Israel cause.
Taxpayer funds are transferred to highly politicized NGOs that promote BDS, the one-state solution and, in many cases, antisemitic supercessionist, or replacement, theologies within mainline churches worldwide.
Jason Edelstein argues for a more pro-active and expansive strategy to combat the delegitimization campaign against Israel.
In sharp contrast to Dutch government policy, direct and indirect funding supports NGOs that are active in BDS campaigns. In their response to this report, the Dutch Foreign Minister and State-Secretary of Foreign Affairs indicated that failure to end these activities may result in a cessation of funding.
Sabeel attempted to galvanize support for the pro-BDS Kairos Palestine document at a Protestant Churches of the Netherlands (PKN) conference. Instead, leading voices within the Church criticized Sabeel.