BDS Now a Human Rights Organization?

There are lots of ways to use labels to muddy the waters. South African Broadcasting Corp. News just came up…

By August 29, 2013

There are lots of ways to use labels to muddy the waters. South African Broadcasting Corp. News just came up with a new one:

Human rights organisation, Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) has called on Wits University’s Vice Chancellor Adam Habib to cancel Wednesday’s Daniel Zamir concert because of what it says is a racist rant.

BDS is a human rights organization?

It’s as political as you can get. Norman Finkelstein went so far as to call BDS “a cult of dishonesty.”

Terrorists are activists, Gaza is occupied, Hezbollah has a legitimate political wing, black is white, up is down, and BDS is humanitarian.

Yeah, right.

(Hat tip: Elder of Ziyon)

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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