On April 30, 2013, Julia Gillard, then Australian prime minister and leader of the Labor Party, denounced the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as “not serving the cause of peace and diplomacy for agreement on a two state solution” of the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
She was aware of a number of factors. One was that, despite pretenses, BDS in reality aimed at targeting a whole nation, not individuals or groups responsible for any particular activities.
Secondly, she was experiencing BDS action at the University of New South Wales that had mutated from anti-Zionist rhetoric to expressions of anti-Semitism and Holocaust-denial on campus. She was also aware of the absurd concentration of left radicals on the issue of Israel rather than on Iran, “whose regime has for decades been a patron of the darkest forces in the region.”...
http://balfourpost.com/leftist-radicals-never-right-about-israel/
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