2-8-2014 Sanctions against Israel: A campaign that is gathering weight | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21595948-israels-politicians-sound-rattled-campaign-isolate-their-country



Noteworthy because this is mainstream media.



"ONCE derided as the scheming of crackpots, the campaign for boycotts,

divestment and sanctions against Israel, widely known as BDS, is turning

mainstream. That, at any rate, is the fear of a growing number of

Israelis. Some European pension funds have withdrawn investments; some

large corporations have cancelled contracts; and the American secretary

of state, John Kerry, rarely misses a chance to warn Israel that efforts

to "delegitimise" and boycott it will increase if its government spurns

his efforts to conclude a two-state settlement of its conflict with the

Palestinians. Israel, says Yair Lapid, Israel's finance minister, is

approaching the same "tipping point" where South Africa found itself in

opposition to the rest of the world in the dying days of apartheid.

"Let's not kid ourselves," he told a conference of security boffins

recently in Tel Aviv. "The world listens to us less and less." For more

see link above.



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