PA: German decision against BDS ‘dangerous’

Demonstrators supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign

Middle East Monitor reports

Palestinian Authority (PA) said yesterday that it sees the German decision to class BDS anti-Semitic “very dangerous”, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported yesterday .

In a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, the PA said that this decision proves that Israel still imposes its agenda on representatives of European nations, adding that it is “blackmailing” the German parliament through its historic mistake related to the Holocaust.

On Friday, Germany voted in favour of a bill which labelled the BDS movement anti-Semitic claiming that the drive’s “don’t buy” stickers – which aim to identify products of Israeli origin so consumers can refrain from purchasing them – “arouse associations [with] the Nazi slogan ‘Don’t buy from Jews’” and are “reminiscent of the most horrific phase in German history”.

The PA’s statement said that this decision is “turning a blind eye to the fact that Israel is a state of ethnic cleansing and continues committing crimes against the Palestinians without being held accountable.”

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