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BDS stories from sweden
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I first heard about BDS around 2014 and from the beginning I like the thinking around it. It was an interesting approach to use “market forces” against themselves.
Being a European country, any kind of criticism against Israel has to be very clear and to the point not to be seen as anti-Semitic. Over the last years, I think Netanyahu has succeeded with his narrative that “Judaism is Israel”.
I am happy the EU both stated and actually acted on excluding settlement products from both trade agreements and R&D funding. This made it easier for the civil society to argue at least that we should boycott settlement products.
To be able to include people in Sweden, it is important that BDS is not perceived as an all-or-nothing proposition. In our setting a full boycott of Israel is neither politically possible nor agreed upon within the Christian community. But, we can argue for a boycott of settlement products and we can argue for individual responsibility not to trade with the occupation.
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To be able to include people in Sweden, it is important that BDS is not perceived as an all-or-nothing proposition. In our setting a full boycott of Israel is neither politically possible nor agreed upon within the Christian community. But, we can argue for a boycott of settlement products and we can argue for individual responsibility not to trade with the occupation.