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tax dollars to the Palestinian Authority until the PA stopped all pay- ments to terrorists. This incentive to commit terror was funded by international foreign aid, and when Americans discovered their tax dollars were being used to reward terrorism they were outraged.
ANTI-SEMITISM REBRANDED: BDS
Having failed to destroy Israel by traditional methods of war and terrorism, Israel’s enemies devised a new plan. They would target Israel’s political and economic stability with boy- cotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS). The BDS movement is insidious because it manipulates world opinion of Israel through thinly veiled anti-Semitic rhetoric.
This movement is especially active on college campuses, where young people are presented with a false narrative by indi- viduals appropriating the lexicon of the civil rights and social
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BDS protest in Melbourne, Australia.
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