Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
29 March
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BDS AND THE STRANGE ATTACKS THROWN AT IT
On this day in 2017, Reut Institute founder Gidi Grinstein tells UN ‘Ambassadors against BDS’ conference that “in 2016 our community probably invested 20 times … more resources in dealing with this problem compared to what we invested in 2010 [so] why are we not winning?” Other speakers throughout the day had been assuring attendees that BDS was being rolled back. “Operation Fightback is underway, and we are winning,” claimed World Jewish Congress chief executive Robert Singer.
المقاطعة والتهم الغريبة التي ألصقت بها
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في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2017 ، أخبر مؤسس معهد روت السيد جيدي جرنشتاين مؤتمر "سفراء ضد مقاطعة اسرائيل" التابع للأمم المتحدة أنه "في عام 2016 ، ربما استثمر مجتمعنا 20 ضعفا ... من الموارد للتغلب على هذه المشكلة مقارنة بما استثمرناه في عام 2010 [فلماذا] لم نفز على هذه المجموعة؟" كان المتحدثون الآخرون طوال اليوم يؤكدون للحضور أن حركة المقاطعة تتراجع. "ان عملية الهجوم المضاد جارية ، ونحن ننتصر ،" هذا ما قاله الرئيس التنفيذي للكونغرس اليهودي العالمي روبرت سينغر.
Note: the Reut Institute is an Israeli think tank that has only one customer - the Israeli Government.
In 2007 the Reut Institute assessed the BDS campaign as a "strategic threat" after Isrsael's 2006 invasion of Lebanon, when "hundreds of thousands of Europeans marching against Israel, although it was Israel that was provoked and its civilian population that was systematically attacked and subjected to war crimes." [On war crimes, see HRW 2007 report: Israel/Lebanon: Israeli Indiscriminate Attacks Killed Most Civilians]
By 2010 the Reut Institute was proposing a strategic response to "the erosion in Israel's diplomatic status over the past few years, which reached its peak with the Goldstone report. This attack possesses strategic significance, and may develop into a comprehensive existential threat within a few years."
It identified the BDS movement, which it calls the "Delegitimization Network", and the political threat "that aims to supersede the Zionist model with a state that is based on the ‘one person, one vote' principle". Promoting such democratic rights could seriously damage Zionism "by turning Israel into a pariah state and by challenging the moral legitimacy of its authorities and existence."