Israel, being the only Jewish State in the world is subject to disproportionate hostility experienced by no other member country of the United Nations. This ubiquitous phenomenon facilitated by mainstream media and magnified on the floors of Parliaments, the United Nations, NGO’s, universities and colleges, charities and numerous other global political organizations.
The propaganda campaign waged against Israel has been so successful that even within many elements of secular Jewry living outside of Israel, the hostility is obsessive and most disturbing is that fiction is believed and the truth discarded.
The Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels knew that if lies were told often enough to racists, cowards and imbeciles, the lies would soon morph into facts and believed by the mob. Israel and those who support Israel have been the victims of mob hate for decades.
The Palestinians were established in the early 1960’s as the puppets with which the Soviet bloc would counter US dominance in the Middle East. History has been so successfully revised by pro-Palestinian supporters that a non-indigenous group, the Palestinians, are now believed to have been the victims of stolen land, ethnic cleansing and even genocide by Jews who are the indigenous people. At the forefront of this revisionism is an organization known as the BDS or Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement promoting economic and cultural boycotts of Israel. Some countries under Islamic rule have attempted with mixed results to parallel the BDS agenda but the Abraham Accords have mocked their rather futile attempts. Islamic and Arabic countries now normalizing trade with Israel has grown and is growing exponentially on an immutable, upward trajectory. Trade and cultural ties prompted by shared military interests, western promotion and ironically Arab national frustration of feeding the never-ending Palestinian begging bowl have created these remarkable turns of events.
When the BDS movement have a propaganda success, no matter how economically insignificant, the exposure is massive.
The Republic of Ireland are reintroducing legislation to criminalize trade with Israel and BDS are orgasmic over the potential of Irish anti Jew legislation. Apparently 1,500 artists in Ireland have signed a petition in support of anti-Jewish State legislation although as some scribe noted it would be impossible to find so many artists in Ireland. Moreover, it must be considered that antisemitism and sympathy for Nazism is very much a part of Ireland’s DNA. History records that Ireland were the only country in the world to offer condolences on the death of Hitler and mocked the Allies during WW2 openly flaunting wanted Nazis to whom they had provided safe haven. Even to this day there are numerous memorials on public display in Ireland of Nazi collaborators. It is also a truth that Ireland were the only country in the world to punish those few brave Irish who went to fight on the side of the allies in WW2. These brave souls who survived on their return to Ireland were punished, losing their right to work for Government, government suppliers and contractors and lost all pension rights. Given that the Palestinian charters demand Jew extermination it really isn’t that difficult to connect the Palestinian and Irish love for Nazism and Jew hatred.
A grassroots challenge to the Irish boycott, BROIGAS (Boycott Republic Of Ireland Goods And Services) is apparently having just the kind of negative impact on Ireland’s economy that is becoming of increasing concern. I love the acronym BROIGAS as it is a Yiddish word meaning anger or annoyance and I originated it!
History teaches us that not too much effort is needed to create the conditions whereby Jews become victims of mob hatred and BDS have succeeded in such efforts. But just how successful has BDS actually been in achieving their main goal in economically damaging the only Jewish state in the world?
The anti-Jewish state public relations campaign becomes overjoyed with minor successes such as the recent cancellation of a tour to Israel by a very strange singer called Sam Smith who has a penchant for dressing up as a woman. The paradox is that he would be welcomed in Israel but executed in Gaza. Sam is not the sharpest pencil in the box as we say. Nevertheless, the Jew hating mob spent huge amounts of money advertising this boycott by SS (appropriate initials methinks) as a success. The fact that a more talented and more recognized cultural icon, Robbie Williams was performing simultaneously was ignored. And the to and from of propaganda gains and losses will undoubtedly continue.
Whilst all this was being exposed on social media, Estonia signed a $100m plus agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries to procure long range munitions. Romania recently signed a $400m deal with another Israeli company for technical equipment and partnering with economic friends, Greece and Cyprus Israel has embarked on a multibillion-dollar agreement to supply Europe with gas. Together with the unstoppable economic benefits now being derived from the Abraham Accords the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and others to follow will determine Israel’s ability to survive economically. BDS apart from pandering to Jew haters and occasionally stopping a third rate, transgender performer who would be murdered on Palestinian territory for the way he / she dresses is an amusing sideshow.
Economically the BDS movement has had not damaged Israel economically. Israeli innovation in medical research and development, water irrigation and agricultural technology helps numerous countries in Asia, Africa and South America.
BDS is a minor boil on the backside, an irritant and nothing more than that.
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