Bundestag capitulates and condemns Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign as antisemitic.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-bds-antisemitic-israel-palestine-nazi-campaign-a8919536.html

Germany condemns BDS movement as antisemitic

Complete garbage from the German government. It now seems that the Bundestag has capitulated to the growing pressures from other quarters that anything remotely critical of Israel and its government is automatically antisemitic and must be condemned or even outlawed. In this case, the BDS Campaign (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) has been singled out because, "The argumentation patterns and methods used by the BDS movement are anti-Semitic". Complete nonsense which in no way reflects the BDS campaign or its objectives. Everyone including the Germans should recognise and remember, that it was campaigns such as BDS which was instrumental in bringing down the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Without boycott campaigns the evils of unjust and oppressive regimes would be free to continue their excesses against sections of their own society, without fear of criticism or protest. 

The Afrikaner government introduced legislation which any civilised people would find repulsive and quite rightly, was challenged by individuals and organisations around the world. The BDS campaign is but the latest movement to challenge a political system which is oppressive against parts of is population and should therefore be supported not stigmatised with the cliched coverall label of antisemitic.I do not accept that criticism of the Israeli government or support for the BDS campaign is antisemitic.In the same way that I supported the AA movement, I support and shall continue to support BDS no matter what he Germans or anyone else may think or say and I make no apology to anybody.

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