The Bds War Against Israel: The Orwellian Campaign to Destroy Israel Through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement by Jed Babbin & Herbert I London

Author:Jed Babbin & Herbert I London
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781499606454
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2014-05-27T22:00:00+00:00

83 Supra, Pacepa and Rychlak

84 Id., p. 35

85 Id., p. 276

86 Email interview with Pacepa, February 23, 2014

87 Supra, Pacepa and Rychlak, p. 38

Chapter 4

The International

BDS Movement

BDS has found a welcoming home in some European governments, in NGOs, and among a growing number of supporters around the world. That support needs to be understood in the context and terms of its supporters in the media.

The BDS movement appeals naturally to the majority of the global media, playing into the liberal sensibilities of most journalists. It is as Washington Post book editor Maria Arana said in 2005:

The elephant in the newsroom is our narrowness. Too often, we wear liberalism on our sleeve and are intolerant of other lifestyles and opinions. ...We’re not very subtle about it at this paper: If you work here, you must be one of us. You must be liberal, progressive, a Democrat. I’ve been in communal gatherings in The Post, watching election returns, and have been flabbergasted to see my colleagues cheer unabashedly for the Democrats.88

Media liberalism is accepted in the U.S. as the norm. It’s neither a shock to those it affects, nor is it given much conscious thought. In a word, it’s not a conspiracy: it’s a culture.

That culture is found in most newsrooms throughout the Western world, deeply embedded in networks and newsrooms such as the BBC and the New York Times. It is the reason the media will report eagerly on the action of a Dutch pension manager to divest itself from Israeli banks but will leave almost completely unreported the fact that a wealthy Chinese businessman would donate $130 million to create a partnership with an Israeli university.89

In parallel evolution, different species develop the same traits. Because it takes place in politics as well as in biology, the NGO community has developed the same sort of culture as the media. That culture dominates the NGO community for three important reasons.

First, the NGO community is composed primarily of groups that wish to take a supranational approach, claim to embrace altruistic principles, and thus generate a smoke screen behind which they can engage in political activism. (This distinguishes NGOs such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, which, although it sometimes falls into political activism, does not regularly engage in it.)

Thus, NGOs such as Amnesty International—which has a virulently anti-Israel track record stretching back to the 2001 Durban NGO Forum and before—states:

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights. Our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.90

Second, what Amnesty International values above anything else is the “halo effect” that results from the supposed dedication to such lofty supranational missions and purposes. This halo surrounds its actions, regardless of their anti-Israeli bias and wrongheadedness, with an aura of beneficence as would befit the Little Sisters of the Poor.

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