GOOD FOR ISRAEL: BORIS TO BACK BAN ON BDS

Following his crushing election victory over a Labour Party that basically shot itself in the foot and then used that foot to beat itself over the head until it was dead, Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson is using his new "power level" to push policies dear to his heart. One of the main ones is apparently supporting the Jewish state Israel.

As reported by the The Jerusalem Post:

The new Conservative government in the UK will pass a law making it illegal for public bodies to engage with BDS, UK Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues Eric Pickles said at the International Institute for Strategic Dialogue’s conference in Jerusalem on Sunday night.

"BDS is antisemitic and should be treated as such," Pickles said, explaining that the new law will not allow public bodies to work with those who boycott, divest from or sanction Israel in any way.

But the move is not just to ban BDS against Israel, but against any foreign country.

The Conservative Party’s platform in last week’s general election in the UK included a commitment to "ban public bodies from imposing their own direct or indirect boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions campaigns against foreign countries. These undermine community cohesion."

But the fact remains that Israel will be the main beneficiary, as Leftist-controlled public institutions like universities and Labour-run councils often go out of their way to support the Palestinian cause and isolate Israel.  

Pickles, who is also the chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel, said that Labour's historic defeat in last week's general election in the UK showed that the British people reject antisemitism.

"Antisemitism an attack on the British way of life and British identity. Without our Jewish citizens we would be a lesser nation," he said.

This is patently untrue. The issue of anti-Semitism simply did not feature in polls on why voters voted the way they did.

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Indeed to frame support for Boris Johnson as a "rejection of anti-Semitism "would be to frame the Labour vote as a "vote for anti-Semitsm," meaning that a third of the British electorate are hardened anti-Semites. Scary!!!

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