No. A boycott is a boycott. You can’t “pick and choose” which items are, uh, “kosher” for boycott and which ones are not.
And here is a handy-dandy guide for the Israel-hating ‘Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions’ crowd, to make sure they stay “true” to their Jew-hating beliefs: So You Want to Boycott Israel? Here’s A List of Products and Services You Need to Start With.
Via Free Beacon.
The cofounder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which urges a complete boycott of Israeli-made products, encouraged the movement’s supporters to seek out one Israel-made product, if it materializes: a vaccine to inoculate them against the coronavirus.
The pandemic has created a dilemma for BDS, a Palestinian-led movement that wages economic warfare on Israel by pressuring other countries to boycott it. Israeli researchers said on Thursday they could begin testing the active component of a potential vaccine by June 1. If successful, the treatment could save countless lives in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel’s assistance, however, would undermine the efforts of BDS supporters to crush Israel’s economy….
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the Washington Free Beacon that “hypocrisy is the middle name of BDS.”
“BDSers are hypocrites just following the examples of Hamas and Palestinian Authority, whose leaders rush to Israeli hospitals when they or their children are suffering, yet pursue zero tolerance for any normal contact with their Israeli neighbors,” he said. “Bottom line, BDS is a hypocritical, ideologically inspired anti-Israel campaign.”
Roz Rothstein, CEO of the pro-Israel nonprofit StandWithUs, said the scenario exposed the inability of BDS to stick to its ideology and “refuse medical innovations for the Palestinian people.”
“This hypocrisy is certainly not unusual for them,” Rothstein said. “Although they work hard towards Israel’s destruction, they will continue to benefit from Israel’s generosity while being dishonest about how Israel regularly helps the Palestinians and the rest of the world.”….
