History-making website aims to beat BDS with facts

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1. So, essentially this just another pro-Israel propaganda effort.

If the BDS efforts are so unimportant and ineffective, as we are told often and repeatedly, then why is this group trying so hard to "beat back the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement"? BDS must be having a much bigger impact than we've been led to believe. Evidently consumers aren't as naive and credulous about world events as the pro-Israel folks might hope, and this suggests that BDS efforts will continue to grow and advance in coming years.

Clearly this pro-Israel group is rattled by the new generation of young people who are not willing to accept the excuses for Israel's entrenched military occupation and the continuing abuses of basic Palestinian rights. More and more people are realizing that BDS is the only effective means of criticizing Israel's official policies of oppressing people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion and nationality.

The group in the article is rightfully worried. Public opinion on Israel is changing, in no small part do to their own policies. Targeting college campuses is not going to prevent the BDS movement from attracting more students who want to sanction Israel over the opposition to their occupation, discrimination and inequality of Palestinian people. The students and faculty who support the growing BDS efforts are representative of the future, but predictably, the website cited above does not address any of these critical issues.