I am an Arab.I am a Muslim.
And I have spent years trying to understand the movement that calls itself BDS, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.I still don’t.I understand grievances.
I understand the pain of a conflict that has cost lives on every side and broken too many families.What I do not understand is a movement that insists it advances justice by demanding that human beings reject the very things that heal them, feed them, protect them and connect them.Here is the uncomfortable truth that BDS will never print on a placard.
If you truly boycotted everything Israel has given the world, you would have to dismantle a large part of modern life.So let me make the offer seriously.
If you are fully committed to BDS, then in the name of consistency, you must give up the following.FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE: FIVE YEARS ON, THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS STILL POINT THE WAY TO PEACECapsule endoscopy devices like PillCam allow doctors to view the digestive tract without invasive scopes or sedation.(Medtronic)Local farmers and daily wage laborers are seen in the agricultural fields as they are busy working in Nabrangpur district area, near the eastern Indian state of Odisha's capital city Bhubaneswar.
In these areas, people started agriculture in the drip irrigation method as they adopted it from Israel and harvesting good crops using less water also earning more benefits through vegetable and other money crop farming to help their families.(STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)The plump, sweet, long-lasting variety in supermarkets everywhere was developed by Israeli scientists.
(Michael Jacobs/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)SIGN UP FOR ANTISEMITISM EXPOSED NEWSLETTERAnti-Israel activists hold banners that include, "globalize the intifada" during a protest commemorating Nakba Day on May 15, 2025 in the Brooklyn, New York. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)Now notice something.No one in the BDS movement actually does any of this.
They will boycott Israel...