Yesterday on Chris Hayes show on MSNBC he interviewed Senator Sanders on a range of topics including BDS where I was pleased to hear that the Senator agrees there is a connection with the BDS movement and anti-semitism.
Thank you Senator Sanders for this explicit concurrence with what many have tried to articulate to the world. Namely that there exists a connection between anti-semitism and the effort to boycott, divest, and sanction Israeli products, artists and academics. From the transcript of yesterday’s show
HAYES: Clinton also – and then I`m going to move to Cuba. But Clinton also today talked about the boycott, divest, sanction movement, which is an international movement. Some of the people who advocate those tactics believe that Israel should be a binational state. They don`t believe in Zionism. Some are Zionists, but they want to see Israel support a two- state solution more strenuously, move away from the settlements. She linked to it racism, to anti-Semitism basically. She said – she connected BDS to anti-Semiticism. Do you think that`s a fair linkage?
SANDERS: I think there is some of that, absolutely. Look, Israel has done some bad things. So has every other country on Earth. I think if people want to attack Israel for their policies, I think that is fair game but not to appreciate that there is some level of anti-Semitism around the world involved in that I think would be a mistake.
Thank you Senator Sanders.