[And the number of times Arabs boycotted the Crusaders or the Ottoman Empire for over 800 years.......ZERO ]
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, or BDS, is the most recent iteration of a century-old effort to attack the legitimacy and economic viability of the Jewish state and its precursors. Arabs initiated boycotts of Jewish businesses in the Holy Land in the early 20th century, with the goal of preventing the establishment of a Jewish state. The Arab League declared a comprehensive boycott in 1945, first to reinforce these efforts, then to reverse the outcome of Israel’s War of Independence. In other words, these countries sought the annihilation of the Jewish state.
In pursuit of its boycott, the Arab League sought to leverage the disparity between the size and wealth of its members’ oil-rich markets and the diminutive Israeli economy. The former represented a tantalizing prospect for companies large and small. To access them, however, the Arab League insisted that companies not trade with Israel or even with other companies that did. The boycott forced numerous major corporations to avoid or cut ties with the Jewish state.
American anti-boycott measures and inconsistent enforcement by Arab League member states convinced many companies to reject the boycott. The Arab League boycott lost further steam during the Palestinian-Israeli peace process in the 1990s, which saw the Palestinian Authority officially accept economic relations with Israel. When the peace process unraveled, however, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) revived the boycott.
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At the turn of the 20th century, Jews began to flee Europe to escape persecution that would eventually escalate into genocide. Many of them sought refuge in the ancient homeland of the Jewish nation – which the Romans had re-named “Palestine,” and which Great Britain was authorized to administer under a mandate from the League of Nations. Many Arabs, both in Palestine and in neighboring countries founded following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, opposed Jewish immigration despite the fact that the territory was sparsely populated.
During the Fifth Palestine Arab Congress in 1922, Arab leaders encouraged an official boycott of Jewish businesses, as they would at subsequent conferences. Palestinian groups launched attacks against Jewish businesses and immigration in 1929 and again from 1936-1939 during what later became known as the “Great Revolt.”
The Economic War Against the Jews (London: Secker &Warburg, 1978), page 9." title="" aria-describedby="qtip-4" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(70, 122, 169); font-family: "Urwdin Demi";">5 In 1938, Jews in Germany also became the targets of pogroms, violent attacks on Jews and Jewish-owned businesses, known as
Kristallnacht (“The Night of Broken Glass”) for the smashing of glass windows.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed December 19, 2019. (Kristallnacht — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)" title="" aria-describedby="qtip-5" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(70, 122, 169); font-family: "Urwdin Demi";">6 In 2019, the German parliament passed a resolution charging that the BDS campaign had revived the Nazi motto “Don’t buy from Jews.”
The New York Times, May 17, 2019. (German Parliament Deems B.D.S. Movement Anti-Semitic)" title="" aria-describedby="qtip-6" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(70, 122, 169); font-family: "Urwdin Demi";">7
(full article online)
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