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Germany condemns BDS movement as antisemitic and akin to ‘terrifying' Nazi campaigns
 [Independent] German lawmakers have condemned a movement that calls for a cultural boycott of Israel, saying it is anti-semitic and reminiscent of the Nazi campaign against the Jews.In a vote on Friday, the German parliament said the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which wants to place financial pressure on Israel over its occupation of Palestinian land, uses anti-semitic tactics. "The argumentation patterns and methods used by the BDS movement are anti-semitic," read the motion submitted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party (CDU), their Social Democrat coalition partners (SPD) as well as the Greens and Free Democrats. The move comes after BDS, which advocates boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli businesses, universities and cultural institutions, called upon artists and pop groups to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Tel Aviv on Saturday. During the vote, which took place on the evening of the music show’s final, German MPs likened BDS campaigns to "the most terrifying phase of German history" when an estimated six million Jews were murdered during the holocaust. Posted by: Besoeker 2019-05-18 |
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