The three demands of BDS are, of themselves, evidence of hate (specifically anti-semitism).
Those are:
1.
that Israel ends its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands
2. that Israel recognizes the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality;
3. and that Israel respects, protects and promotes the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in United Nations Resolution 194.
The first can be counted as hate because it demands "Arab lands" without acknowledging its counterpart which is Jewish lands.
The second already exists, and the mere idea that it does not represents hate.
The third creates a special, perpetual definition of "refugee" which is applied to the Arab Palestinians alone, rather than applying, conceptually, to all peoples. If we apply the definition equally to the Jewish people there are 15 million Jewish people with a right to return to their homeland.
The author claims:
To justify this condemnation of the B.D.S. movement requires accepting two extremely controversial claims: first, that the right to self-determination for any ethnic, religious or racial group entails the right to live in a state that confers special status on members of that group — that it is “their state” in the requisite sense; and second, that Palestine counts for these purposes as the rightful homeland of modern-day Jews, as opposed to the ancient Judeans.
Yes. Exactly. The condemnation is therefore justified. First, it is the NORM in our world for ethnic groups to have a national self-determination that does, in fact, confer special status to the cultural and religious traditions of that particular ethnic group. To deny that NORM ONLY when discussing the Jewish people is, by definition, anti-semitism. Second, disconnecting the Jewish people from their history in their homeland and denying that the people who have, over centuries -- MILLENNIA -- maintained their traditions, culture, language, religion, system of laws, celebrations, holidays and writings (both historical and religious) are those people and belong to that collective is both abhorrent and ridiculous. And if it is not hate to deny an entire peoples their HISTORY, I don't know what is.
The author, rather than demonstrating BDS' lack of hate, has actually demonstrated exactly why it IS hate.