Israel’s new coalition government is beginning to take shape and Gilad Erdan will have two roles. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has selected the outgoing Minister of Public Security and Strategic Affairs to become ambassador to the United Nations and the United States. In his previous role, Erdan led Israel’s fight against the BDS movement.
At a Jerusalem Post conference in New York last year, Erdan bragged about the Israeli effort to combat the BDS movement and took credit for inspiring U.S. states to adopt their own anti-BDS laws:
When I was charged with leading this fight, BDS leaders operated freely and were largely successful in disguising themselves as human rights organizations… We tore off their masks. We exposed their ties to terror, we exposed their deeprooted antisemitism, we exposed their opposition to peace, and we exposed of course their hypocrisy. They couldn’t care less about the real human rights violations, for example in Syria and Iran. All they care about is demonizing and delegitimizing the world’s only Jewish and democratic state…..Our efforts are producing results. 27 US states now have counter-BDS legislation. Let’s give a hand to all the governors and state legislators who supported this law. They deserve it.
At the conference, Erdan also called for even more aggressive anti-BDS policies to be implemented:
We need to take the fight against BDS to the next level. We must encourage investigations of terror-linked BDS groups and promote legislation that counters all forms of anti-Semitism including of course the anti-Semitic delegitimization of Israel.
In 2017, Erdan said that his ministry wanted to create a database of Israelis that supported the BDS movement. “It is not at all surprising that Mr. Erdan and his government should spy on Israeli citizens, whether Jewish or Palestinian, or set up a database of those supporting BDS in order to target anyone working for the freedom, justice and equality of Palestinians,” said General Coordinator of the Palestinian BDS National Committee Mahmoud Nawajaa at the time, “Support for the BDS movement has been growing around the globe in recent years, as more and more people recognize the brutal reality of Israel’s apartheid regime and nearly 50-year-old military occupation of Palestinian lands.”
Erdan also helped coordinate the move to bar Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from entering Israel last year.
Foreign interference in US politics? Isn’t that supposed to be a Bad Thing?
Mr. Erdan deposits a steaming pile of Zionism composed of the usual elements:
– a lack of self-awareness;
– whataboutism;
– hypocrisy;
– lies; and
– anti-Semitic conflation of Zionism and related colonialism, (war) crimes and religion-based supremacism with all Jews.
“… We tore off their masks. We exposed their ties to terror, we exposed their deep rooted antisemitism, we exposed their opposition to peace, and we exposed of course their hypocrisy.” Gilad Erdan ignores the horrors Zionists of foreign origin inflicted and continue to do so on the native Palestinians:
One of countless examples: What happened in Palestine in 1947 and 1948 was aptly described by eye-witness Nathan Chofshi, a Jewish immigrant from Russia who arrived in Palestine in 1908 in the same group as Polish born David Ben-Gurion (real name, David Gruen):
“…[W]e old Jewish settlers in Palestine who witnessed the flight know how and in what manner we, Jews, forced the Arabs to leave cities and villages…some of them were driven out by force of arms; others were made to leave by deceit, lying and false promises. It is enough to cite the cities of Jaffa, Lydda, Ramle, Beersheba, Acre from among numberless others.” (Jewish Newsletter, February 9, 1959).
Chofshi was deeply ashamed of what his fellow Jews did to the Palestinians: “We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees. And still we dare to slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed of what we did and of trying to undo some of the evil we committed…we justify our terrible acts and even attempt to glorify them.” (ibid)
https://al-awda.org/on-israels-little-known-concentration-and-labor-camps-in-1948-1955/
“On Israel’s little-known concentration and labor camps in 1948-1955”
@Misterioso
Many thanks for the link to the article detailing the Zionist equivalent of the “Arbeit Macht Frei” camps. Interesting to note that apart from the obvious inability to go the whole mile with actual full scale extermination of the indigenuous natives the Zionists actually needed a captive supply of male labour to underpin their economy as their proud sons were on active duty defending the new Middle East colonial master race colony which included of course continued ethnic cleaning spiced with the occasional mini massacre.
The picture in the barbed wire speaks volumes about the ugly reality which was and is Zionism and the more archive material which is becoming accessible and distributable to in particular to the younger generation on the click of a mouse button the more the ugly reality of what Israel was and has remained will become clearer by the day.
Nothing like bragging about directly interfering in the internal political affairs of the US, as well as interfering in the exercise of the basic right of every American citizen to peacefully express themselves against violence and oppression abroad.
A very good measure of how distorted and upside-down matters have become.