Omar Barghouti

Barghouti is the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. While he claims that BDS is a nonviolent form of activism, he’s also admitted that its main goal is the end of the Jewish State. He has also rejected any form of the two state solution, saying that Israel has no “moral claim” to the land.

OMAR BARGHOUTI

BDS CAMPAIGN CO-FOUNDER

ADMITS THAT BDS AIMS TO DESTROY ALL OF ISRAEL

“If the occupation ends let’s say, would that be your end for BDS [Boycott Divestment and Sanctions against Israel]? No it wouldn’t.”

“I clearly do not buy into the two-state solution.”

REJECTS JEWISH INDIGENOUS AND LEGAL RIGHTS TO ISRAEL

“I am completely and categorically against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land.”

DOES NOT BELIEVE JEWS, AS A PEOPLE, HAVE A RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION

“If the [Palestinian] refugees were to return you would not have a two-state solution, you would have a Palestinian state next to Palestine, rather than a Palestine next to Israel.”

CONDONES AND LEGITIMIZES PALESTINIAN TERRORISM

“Palestinians have the right to resistance by any means, including armed resistance.
Jews aren’t Indigenous just because you say you are…Jews are not a people…”

Sources:

  1. camera.org/article/ny-times-corrects-on-bds-its-not-merely-anti-occupation/
  2. jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bds-in-their-own-words
  3. “Challenges for America in the Middle East” by Richard W. Mansbach, Kirsten L. Taylor, (223)
  4. camera-uk.org/2016/06/08/the-independent-whitewashes-the-extremism-of-bds/
  5. Photo Credit: Kevin van den for Intal/Flickr
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