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Why BDS can't tolerate Jews and Palestinians in Israel standing together

Opinion Editor's Choice

Dina Kraft

In a week of both intensified fighting in Gaza and reports that a deal for a two-month cease-fire and the release of Israeli hostages might be getting closer, Daniel Levin, who has experience in hostage negotiations, blasts the amateur way Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his associates have conducted talks.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, a father of a hostage, pleads for a deal before it is too late, and as the son of Holocaust survivors, scolds officials who invoke the Holocaust to evade responsibility for the massacre. Muhammad Shehada explains why only a cease-fire with a political horizon will lead to Hamas' downfall. Etan Nechin looks at the real reason BDS is boycotting Israel's growing Jewish-Arab solidarity movement. From India, Saydan Lodh argues that lack of awareness of the Holocaust has led to its bizarre depictions in popular culture.

Finally, Nic Maclellan describes why pro-Palestinian protests have landed all the way across the globe in the tiny islands of the Pacific.