Miriam Elman |
Is it possible for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to be anything other than anti-Semitic? In a recent lecture in Rochester, New York, Syracuse University professor Miriam Elman explained why the answer to this question is “no.” A.J. Cascetta’s report, sponsored by Campus Watch, appears today at American Thinker:
[Miriam] Elman is no firebrand rhetorician, but rather a level-headed, meticulous scholar. She focused on the differences between legitimate criticism of Israeli policies and anti-Semitism, which “is not in the eye of the beholder.” Anti-Semitism “crosses the line” surpassing the merely uncivil to constitute an assault on Jewish identity. We see it when historical and cultural links between Jews and Israel are refuted and when Israel is singled out for scrutiny like no other nation on earth. Most of all, we see it when three age-old stereotypes of Jews are projected onto the entire nation of Israel: the lust for power and control, the lust for blood, and the portrayal of Jews as animals, inferior to non-Jews. This rhetoric is the lifeblood of the BDS movement.
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