Responding to Paul Larudee; Is BDS “Soft Zionist?”
By Charles E. Carlson
http://whtt.org/open-letter-to-boycott-divestiture-sanction-are-you-soft-zionist/
April 7, 2014
Mr. Omar Barghouti, Co -Founder, BDS Movement.
Dear Mr. Barghouti
I am adding my voice to Paul Larudee’s March 23, open letter to you. We have not met, I hope we do. I am informed that you were a co-founder of an organization, BDS Movement in Palestine which has morphed into a world wide network of individuals and organizations now referred to as the “BDS movement,” and that you do not run the day to day project of that network.
To review what Mr. Laradee has already said, someone in BDS, The Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions movement has materially diluted the founding purposes agreed upon by yourself and 172 organizations in 2005. The BDS Movement original “Call” urges various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets its obligations under international law by: “(1) ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the barrier Wall,” but this language has now been changed, apparently without notifying those of us who participate in the present, BDS movement.
The new language is very different, as Mr Larudee pointed out: the Call urges various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets its obligations under international law by: “Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall.” Mr. Larudee calls these words, now found on the BDS website, “Soft Zionism:” I agree.
