That is the truth, which is poison to BDS, which immorally equates Israel with white-dominated South Africa, and even Nazi Germany. That's what follows when you ally yourself with those who deny the Holocaust.
Rooted in propaganda, BDS parallels the delegitimization movement seeking to destroy Israel's status as a state. Not blood-soaked Iran, Syria, North Korea or Somalia. In the alternate universe of BDS (Bigoted Double Standards), Israel is the world's worst nation. BDS hypocritically heaps all blame for Palestinian misery on Israel, never whispering of Arab culpability.
BDS "is counterproductive" to peace, Israeli Consul General Daniel Kutner told me. BDS doesn't merely oppose Israeli policy, which is fair game, he said. "Its hidden motive is to delegitimize Israel in general."
With Israel's existence at stake, BDS holds it to a higher standard than it does any other nation. The tiny democracy lives in a sea of foaming hate, surrounded by Holocaust-denying neighbors pledging death to Jews. To this day, the Palestinian Authority praises murderers of Israeli children.
It is a spectacular lie, and arguably anti-Semitic, to accuse Israel of apartheid while ignoring nations actually practicing it. Try to open a church in Saudi Arabia and see what happens. There are mosques and churches all over Israel. An Arab justice sits on Israel's supreme court. An Arab woman has won the Miss Israel beauty contest. Is that apartheid?
No, this is apartheid: Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas demands a Jew-free Palestine. He wants what the rest of the Arab world already has - lands that are judenfrei, the Nazi term meaning "no Jews."
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs have been refugees for decades because their Arab neighbors lock them out and then use them as a club to bash Israel, where 20 percent of the citizens (with full rights) are Arab.
