BDS is a real threat to Israel

Supporters of the boycott of Israeli goods in a large store in central Paris

President of the World Jewish Congress Ron Lauder said that the boycott of Israel has become a phenomenon in the universities and the parliaments of the world, "and proved to be a new form of anti-Semitism, where our enemies are trying to eliminate us by military means and economic, but they failed, and now trying to do so by political means, and despite the existence of convictions among our enemies we have their victory, but Israel will not cease to fight this phenomenon. "

For his part, Professor Boaz Golani assistant chief of the Technion Institute in Haifa on Foreign Relations, in an article in Yediot Ahronot said, Israel's determine not to leave the academic boycott space to its enemies, in the light of that seen in the last months an increasingly high calls for a boycott of Israel campaigns in various sectors economic, cultural, and especially in the academic side.

Golani added that there are many school days, conferences and political statements that are busy dealing with the global boycott of Israel movement, which means they are facing a real threat to the establishment of the state alone, and that the harm has become a much-different sectors and institutions, senior academic in Israel.

He pointed out that the academic boycott of Israel threat actually turned into a real threat holds in its implication future risk, because scientific researches are linked these days to academic cooperation between institutions and researchers in the world, and if you continue to decline in research and academic cooperation between Israeli institutions and researchers and their counterparts in the world because of the boycott, then this will hurt the ability of Israeli universities to keep up with the movement of global scientific research.

This comes in conjunction with a conference at United Nations Headquarters on Tuesday to address the global boycott of Israel movement (BDS) with the participation of more than 1,500 university students and representatives of dozens of organizations and the World Jewish Congress and the judge Elyakim Rubinstein, assistant chief of the Israeli Supreme Court, at the invitation of the Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danone titled "building bridges to fight the boycott."

Danone said that the BDS is considered "anti-Semitic" contemporary, and this conference could be considered a new international front against the boycott movement, and sends a message to all the enemies of Israel, they will not be subject to, and will continue to reveal what is said against it lies.

The conference will present awards to those who have to face the boycott movement to Israel.

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