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  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    it's not a cultural boycott and that's the fucking point. it's a targeted deprivation of profits from capitalists to extract concessions, and it is provably effective. "cultural boycott" is just nonsense anyway, what does it mean to boycott a culture, especially a nonexistant isntraeli one

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      2 months ago

      The fact that governments everywhere are banning BDS tells me that it's extremely effective. If it didn't work they wouldn't care.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Guarantee "cultural" was just the modifier he tacked on to preempt the very obvious facts that boycotts do work

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Just like China Hawks started calling it "cultural genocide" when it got too transparently ridiculous to call vocational schools genocide.

    • Pentacat [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Genocide is a key component of Israeli culture, as pointed out by US lawmakers. To oppose genocide is a cultural boycott of Israel, and it harms Israelis by making them feel like targets.