In the April 5 issue, James Ansel questions whether the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement is anti-Semitic in nature. It certainly is! Ansel doesn’t realize how anti-Semitic he reveals himself to be in his letter.
Israel is the only Jewish country in the world, and the only true democracy in the Middle East. BDS is designed to economically destroy the state of Israel.
It is one thing to criticize the policies of Israel, even half of Israelis criticize their government. But it not acceptable for the BDS movement to try to destroy the Jewish state, exactly as Hamas states it wants to destroy the Jewish state.
Ansel does not know the history of how Israel acquired all of Jerusalem and Judea and Sumeria (the West Bank). In 1967, as Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, were fighting against Israel in the Six-Day War, Prime Minister Golda Meir called King Hussein of Jordan and told him he should stay out of the war.
But King Hussein felt pressured by the other Arab countries to join them in the attack against Israel. When Jordanian forces entered Israel and attacked, Israeli forces pushed them back, and took over the rest of Jerusalem and the West Bank. Many Palestinians left the West Bank, now controlled by Israel, and entered Jordan.
The Palestinians then tried to assassinate King Hussein multiple times but failed. They wanted to take over Jordan. In September 1970, a full-blown war between the Palestinians, led by Yasser Arafat, and Jordanian forces, left thousands of people dead. It was known as “Black September.”
Jordan owned the West Bank prior to the Six-Day War. Jordan does not want the land nor the Palestinians back. Jordan accepts the fact that Israel owns the land of the West Bank. The Palestinians never owned that land.
As for the UN sanctioning Israel many times, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley threatened the UN countries to stop irrationally criticizing Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, and to stop demonstrating its anti-Semitic character.
Marshall Hubsher
Port Washington
