#BDSFail! | HuffPost
With the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) campaign in full swing, and lovers of Israeli pickles and hummus stocked up for fear of their favorite gourmet delicacies going out of stock, one may be forgiven for asking - why don’t the BDS activists just go all the way; and if so, how would that look?
Let’s start with something easy, you know, like not using computers anymore. In the past year alone, Apple, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Facebook have invested billions of dollars in Israel, opening up R&D Centers, high-tech incubators, headquarters and buying out & investing in Israeli start-ups.
How about cell phones? Samsung just made a major long term investment in Israel, Motorola’s Israel office was instrumental in actually creating the world’s first cell phone, while some of the most popular iPhone apps have also been produced in Israel.
But that’s fine, our BDS activists can still coordinate the Israel Apartheid Week by telegram or Morse code.
Now what if, heaven forbid, our BDS activists get cancer? Do they know that Israel is a world leader in bio-medicine and cancer research? Take for example the Israeli company IceCure Medical, which has developed a revolutionary system to treat breast cancer without surgery by destroying tumors by turning them into balls of ice. Or what about Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, which designed a simple blood test that reveals women at risk of breast or ovarian cancer, allowing them to get early treatment (Editor’s note: sorry, not clear if the test was designed in ‘West’ or ‘East’ Jerusalem). But that’s ok too. You can just twiddle your thumbs and hope everything will go away.
With the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) campaign in full swing, and lovers of Israeli pickles and hummus stocked up for fear of their favorite gourmet delicacies going out of stock, one may be forgiven for asking - why don’t the BDS activists just go all the way; and if so, how would that look?
Let’s start with something easy, you know, like not using computers anymore. In the past year alone, Apple, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Facebook have invested billions of dollars in Israel, opening up R&D Centers, high-tech incubators, headquarters and buying out & investing in Israeli start-ups.
How about cell phones? Samsung just made a major long term investment in Israel, Motorola’s Israel office was instrumental in actually creating the world’s first cell phone, while some of the most popular iPhone apps have also been produced in Israel.
But that’s fine, our BDS activists can still coordinate the Israel Apartheid Week by telegram or Morse code.
Now what if, heaven forbid, our BDS activists get cancer? Do they know that Israel is a world leader in bio-medicine and cancer research? Take for example the Israeli company IceCure Medical, which has developed a revolutionary system to treat breast cancer without surgery by destroying tumors by turning them into balls of ice. Or what about Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, which designed a simple blood test that reveals women at risk of breast or ovarian cancer, allowing them to get early treatment (Editor’s note: sorry, not clear if the test was designed in ‘West’ or ‘East’ Jerusalem). But that’s ok too. You can just twiddle your thumbs and hope everything will go away.
