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August 21, 2015

BDS and Its Ever-Expanding List of Targets

“An Israeli artist who devotes himself to anything other than denouncing Israel is guilty and deserves to be shunned.”

A Norwegian film festival recently rejected an Israeli movie about disabled children in Israel—on the grounds that it is pledged to boycott any Israeli film with a subject other than Israel’s supposed persecution of the Palestinians. The fact that the film received no government sponsorship, or that its director, Roy Zafrani, does not make a habit of pronouncing on political issues, was of no consequence. Jonathan Marks comments on what this reveals about the purposes of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement:

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