The Israeli apartheid state seems to be taking the international campaign of boycott and disinvestment as well as other forms of protest against Israel’s decades-old occupation of the Palestinian homeland more seriously than ever before.
According to the Hebrew media Israel is utilizing its political and intelligence assets to thwart efforts to boycott Israeli settlements especially in countries considered close friends and allies of the Jewish state such as Canada and the United States.
Israel is also pressuring governments and parliaments to take decisions and pass laws incriminating boycott of Israeli products.
Last week some irate Israeli officials sounded quite hysterical when they labeled the BDS movement “anti-Semitic.”
In the past we thought that anti-Semites were those bigots who hated Jews for being Jewish. Now Israel is redefining anti-Semites as those Zionists hate for criticizing the evil Israeli occupation of Palestine and systematic oppression and persecution meted out to the non-Jewish population.
The exaggerated Israeli apprehension about solidarity displayed by many people around the world with oppressed Palestinians languishing under a Nazi-like occupation reflects a deep moral crisis facing the apartheid state.
One Israeli friend told this writer last week that “the BDS movement could have very dangerous potentials for Israel.”
“Israel through its many canticles especially in the West could bully governments and business firms to stand against the BDS but Israel cannot force ordinary people to buy Israeli goods and products.”
Moral Stance
The BDS movement is not anti-Semitic or anything of this sort. It is rather a moral conscientious endeavor aimed at discouraging the apartheid state from pursuing its manifestly murderous tactics and policies against the helpless Palestinians.
Needless to say these evil tactics are intended first and foremost to make life for Palestinians unbearable so much that these thoroughly persecuted people would be forced to leave their historical and ancestral homeland.
Hence many ordinary people around the world have reached the moral conviction that buying Israeli products and doing business with Israel actually amounts to complicity to murder and oppression.
This is not an exaggeration. Israel has been carrying out a slow-motion ethnic cleansing against Palestinians aimed at forcing them or as many of them as possible to emigrate so that the apartheid entity would be able to establish an ethnically and religiously pure and racist state.
Needless to say Israel is using the same tools that Nazi Germany used to carry out its racial policies.
I am not eager to hurl the Nazi epithets at Jews. But let us be honest. When Jews think behave and act like the Nazis did we should be able to compare these oppressors with the Nazis.
Today Israel emulates Nazi Germany in many respects. In Germany they had the Master Race whim. And here in Israel-Palestine Jews are treated as Chosen People whereas non-Jews are treated as children of a lesser God. In Germany non-Aryans were viewed as “untermenschen” and in Israel non-Jews are called “Goyem” a connotation for animals.
In Germany the Nazis had the Lebensraum concept and in Israel Jews are taking over Palestinian homes land property and businesses as well as building Jewish-only settlements.
And as the Nazis used military might to reach their nefarious goals the apartheid state of the Jews are employing the same tools in order to reach very much the same goals including the acquisition of neighbors’ lands ethnic cleansing of non-Jews military supremacy and regional hegemony. And they do all of this in the name of the holocaust.!!!!
For these reasons it is morally imperative that every honest woman and man around the world take a moral decision now not tomorrow to refrain from buying Israel produces and products from the nearby supermarket or grocery store. Don’t buy Israeli products. Doing so helps Israel murder another Palestinian child.
This is the very least honest people around the world could do in order to prevent evil from prevailing in Occupied Palestine. Israel may be hell-bent on crushing the Palestinians and dispossessing them of their land and human rights. But we who are loyal to our moral conscience first and foremost must be as determined to stand on the side of truth and justice.
A final word: We Palestinians depend for our very survival let alone steadfastness in the face of Israeli oppression on the goodwill and solidarity of the peoples of the world.
So please don’t forsake us don’t leave us alone.
Because if you do we might be forced God forbid to face the unthinkable at the hands of Hitler’s disciples.
Khalid Amayreh is a veteran journalist and current affairs commentator living in Occupied Palestine
