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Hollywood Delivers a Crushing Blow to the Anti-Israel BDS Movement
Celebrities are refusing to boycott an upcoming Israeli LGBTQ+ film festival in a sharp rebuke of the Boycott, Divest & Sanction (BDS) movement.
The past year has not been a great one for advocates of the movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) the world’s only Jewish state out of existence.
With the advent of the Abraham Accords, just over a year ago, came a somewhat chilling effect.
If Israel’s Muslim-majority neighbors weren’t willing to boycott Israel, what hope did BDS advocates have of convincing nations and people much further removed from the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian land conflict?
The decision by the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and later, Morocco, to normalize diplomatic ties with Israel represented a remarkable reversal. Those nations were using BDS against Israel long before U.S. progressives caught on.
That these nations have now reversed the policy, after so many years, was a blow to BDS activists hoping to recruit nations, corporations and other multinational interests to economically punish the people of Israel for supposed human rights violations.
Many other countries- including the U.S.- have been or stand accused of human rights violations. Objectors to BDS…