Are supporters of the Israeli Boycott effectively restraining Israel’s brutality?

Question

A wide and sustained conversation about the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) campaign — why it is needed, what conditions it is trying to change, why it is legitimate, and who its opponents are — is a very important educational tool in the struggle for human rights internationally.



http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=13175

Answer 1

Israel was formed using extreme brutality when they went village to village, home to home executing Palestinians like animals. Things haven't changed much since then. The boycott was brought about as a result of years of ethnic cleansing and apartheid policies by Israel. Do I think it will force them to act humane? No. I do think it will make people more aware of their policies and violation of numerous human rights laws, which is a good start. This myth that Israel is a young peaceful nation just defending itself from it's violent neighbors is absurd. Israel and it's bloodthirsty regime are the terrorists in this scenario.

Answer 2

Not too much because so much of US taxpayer money goes straight into Isreali pockets every year anyway. It helps build the illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank & the Israeli wall that is entrapping Palestinians in their own towns. The US gives Billions $ to Israel every year & Israel has one of the strongest economies in the world.

Answer 3

Absolutely this should be public. We're America. Free speech is important to us.

I disagree with much of it.

The biggest enemy Islam has is Islam. During the Suez Canal crisis, the U.S. pushed Israel back using the fleet out of Italy. No one remembers. Palestinian neighbors seized land that was originally part of that area. No Palestinians are asking for that land back, just from Israel. Palestinians were driven back, refused sanctuary in every country in the Middle East, except Israel!

Now, has Israel done plenty that's wrong? Yes, I've read their history, and the commentaries by their detractors.

No defending some of it.

But Islam keeps allowing violence and terrorism in their midst instead of using the times of concession to say, "We don't want violence, here are the people who broke the cease-fire, let's finish the treaty!"

A Palestinian state was offered twice, met with violence twice. Were there reasons? Yes, but did it help Palestine? No. Just the opposite.

Israel will never get the land their Zionist members want unless the rest of the Middle-East acts violent enough that their land is taken from them for attacking everyone else around them.

Islam is heading in that direction.

Answer 4

are you kidding, brutality is what they do. the only reason the jews remember the holocaust is so they know how to treat the Palestine's.

Answer 5

No, they are not, because "Israel's brutality" is but a myth. They are doing a decent job of showing their anti semitism.

Answer 6

There is no Israeli brutality. They are far more restrained than any other country would be under comparable circumstances & far more restrained than they should be.