Tag: Zionism is Racism

NOVANEWS   UN resoulution no 3379 November 1975 By Lawrence Davidson Michael Jay Rosenberg is a well-known, sharp-minded critic of the Israeli government. But he is also a “liberal Zionist” who believes in the legitimacy and necessity of a Jewish state. This point of view has led him to attack the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement in a recent piece, “The goal of BDS is dismantling Israel”. In the process he seriously underestimates the movement’s scope and potential in an effort to convince himself and others that BDS has no chance of actually achieving the goal he ascribes to it. However, the only evidence he cites of the movement’s weakness is the recent failure ofthe University of Michigan’s student government to pass a divestment resolution. At the same time he...