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Noam Chomsky comme Norman Finkelstein et MJ Rosenberg vient de prendre ses distances avec le mouvement de boycott d'Israël, BDS. Tous les trois sont des intellectuels américains bien connus pour leurs critiques virulentes contre Israël et leur goût pour la médiatisation.  En vertu de leur judaïté, ils confèrent à l'Israël-bashing de la visibilité, de la légitimité, de la gloire (ou de l'infamie, selon votre point de vue). C'est bien que des Juifs hyper-critiques d'Israël prennent conscience, même tardivement, du dogmatisme anti-sioniste et de l'antisémitisme omniprésent dans le mouvement BDS. Il leur a fallu longtemps pour réaliser que l'anti-sionisme et l'antisémitisme font partie de l'ADN du mouvement depuis sa naissance à l'occasion de l'égout moral que fut la conférence des ONG de Durban 2001 (dans lequel l'Europe s'est distinguée et notamment le Belge francophone Pierre Galand).  Mais au moins maintenant ces intellectuels américains interpellent ouvertement les le mouvement BDS et ses leaders haineux. [Image: dépliant à la gloire d'Hitler et appelant à la destruction d'Israël distribué à Durban: "Que se serait-il passé si j'avais gagné? Les bonnes choses: Il n'y aurait pas eu d'Israël ni de sang palestinien versé. Je vous laisse deviner le reste. Les mauvaises choses: J'aurais empêché la création de la nouvelle coccinelle. Je vous laisse deviner le reste."] 


Chomsky disses BDS-- and he's STILL wrong about it @ Blue Truth
This week in The Nation, Noam Chomsky has joined Norman Finkelstein and MJ Rosenberg in distancing himself from the BDS movement. All three are well known as harsh critics of Israel, with added legitimacy and fame (or infamy, depending on your viewpoint) granted to them by virtue of being Jewish. Yet, starting with the posting on YouTube of Finkelstein's 2012 interview with a BDS activist that became a must-watch for those involved in this issue, they have each called out BDS quite publicly.

Finkelstein was entirely clear about what BDS was about; referring to it as a "cult", he noted the implications of their demands: "We want the end of the occupation, the right of return, and we want equal rights for Arabs in Israel. And they think they are very clever because they know the result of implementing all three is what, what is the result'  You know and I know what the result is. There's no Israel!"

Rosenberg, in a Huffington Post column a few months ago, gave his message away in the title of a column that, except for a few statements, I could have written myself: "The BDS Movement Is About Dismantling Israel, Not The '67 Occupation". He stated "The demands make clear that the movement's goal is ending Israeli statehood, not just the post-1967 occupation..... If the BDS goals were achieved, there would be no State of Israel at all. That is why so many proponents of BDS have such a hard time even referring to Israel as a country. It's often the "Zionist entity" or the "occupying regime." Rosenberg has also denounced one of the leaders of the BDS movement, Ali Abunimah, for open anti-Semitism-- and recognized that Jews on the left tolerate that far too easily: "There is a tendency among Jews on the left, including myself, to argue so vehemently that being anti-Israel does not make one an anti-Semite that we don't notice when being anti-Israel coexists with anti-Semitism, that one just feeds the other. We should".


Now Chomsky has joined with his denunciation of BDS, but even in recognizing its errors, he continues to get the story wrong. [...]

It's good that even severe Jewish critics of Israel are waking up to the dogmatic anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism that is baked into the BDS movement. They may be a bit late, having failed to notice that these have been part of the DNA of the movement since its birth in the moral sewer of the 2001 Durban NGO conference, but at least they are now calling BDS and its hateful leaders out openly. It seems that Jewish Voice for Peace has now left itself out alone on the BDS island, as they still stubbornly refuse to see the anti-Semitic hate speech of those with whom they choose to stand.