Too much forest, too few trees, in the BDS movement

The BDS movement does not register too many significant victories any longer. Artists and performers come to Israel, professors, college students, movers and shakers - many basically ignore the BDS movement.

Sadly, one of their most significant victories, at least recent victories, has come, and is at the expense of the people they should be trying to help, not hurt.

The Times of Israel is reporting that SodaStream, the company that employed hundreds of Palestinians and managed a mixed Jewish-Palestinian work-space successfully, has succumbed to the BDS movement and fired its last batch of 75 Palestinian employees. For whatever reason, perhaps because of the most recent terror attack perpetrated by a Palestinian employed in a mall in Maaleh Adumim, the Israeli government refused to extend their work permits past February.

The firing of these last 75 or so employees might not be the fault of the BDS movement, at least not directly, but the firing of the hundreds before causing there to be only 75 left is the direct fault of BDS. And, forcing the factory to move and making the continued employment of these last 75 as well to be difficult and challenging is also the fault of the BDS movement.

Too much forest and too few trees are being seen..

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