In an op-ed for the Jerusalem Post, veteran columnist Herb Keinon comes down hard on Jewish and Israeli voices that provide free advertisement for the BS group:
"Right now, all these BDS efforts add up to little more than a mosquito – an annoying buzz that bites once in a while and draws a drop of blood, but not much else, and is by no means fatal... One thing worth remembering is that we are a powerful state, not a weak shtetl dependent for its bread on a farmer down the road whose boycott would starve everyone out...
Israel is a strong country with a robust economy and goods, products and services that others actually need and want. It is a country that can withstand a co-op in Olympia, Washington, that doesn’t want to stock Israeli products, and it is a state that has proven it has the diplomatic ability to counter moves to oust it from various world bodies.
For every store like the one in Washington state, there are hundreds more that want and are more than willing to stock what we supply. We overamplify the one, and play down the significance of the others, to our own detriment.
For every Lauryn Hill, there are more OneRepublics and Robbie Williams. And for every move Jabril Rajoub cooks up to oust us from an international forum, Israel has the diplomatic wherewithal – as it has now proven – to deflect it. All that needs to be internalized before we fret over BDS to distraction."
