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Reuters: Israel sees threat from "delegitimisers"

January 23, 2011
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In the latest sign that BDS is penetrating the media mainstream, Reuters today published an article on the BDS movement.

In the latest sign that BDS is penetrating the media mainstream, Reuters today published an article on the BDS movement. Journalist Douglas Hamilton writes:

Foreign protests, boycotts, embargoes and sanctions, along with internal resistance, helped bring about the isolation and eventually the end of apartheid in South Africa in the 1990s.

Now Israelis fear pro-Palestinian, or anti-Israeli, activists are using the same tactics against their country, with increasing effect.

Carlos Santana, Gil Scott Heron, Elvis Costello, Gorillaz Sound System, the Klaxons, the Pixies, Faithless, Leftfield, Tindersticks, Meg Ryan and film director Mike Leigh have all decided not to go to Israel in recent months.

Read the full article here.

January 23, 2011
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