Israeli Scientists Now Just Trolling BDS With Breakthroughs

Lancet specifically cited recent breakthroughs in AIDS research, cancer treatment, and Alzheimer prevention.

Rechovot, November 13 – A representative of Israeli research institutions and personalities admitted that the main factor behind a string of recent scientific and technological advances emanating from those entities has been less a drive for the improvement of human life and civilization, and more a deep-seated desire to mock and provoke advocates of divestment from, and boycotts of, Israeli institutions.

Addressing a scientific conference at the Weizmann Institute of Science today, Professor Doron Lancet of the Molecular Genetics Department at the institute explained to assembled colleagues that recent achievements in the sciences by Israeli researchers and commercial enterprises stemmed almost entirely from wanting to troll the BDS movement, and only incidentally from an effort to cure illnesses or ease people’s lives.

Lancet specifically cited recent breakthroughs in AIDS research, cancer treatment, and Alzheimer prevention or slowdown, but referred less directly to advances in rehabilitative care, mobile apps, and agriculture as manifestations of the emerging phenomenon. “Our conversations within the walls of Weizmann and beyond point to a clear trend,” he explained. “The driving force behind our research and development has become, over the last few years, more and more explicitly a visceral need to stick it to BDS proponents and demonstrate the ludicrous, self-destructive assumptions behind their movement.”

“If five or ten years ago the prevailing discourse involved simple mentioning of the vital everyday technology that is and has been developed and produced in Israel, such as Intel chips or instant message technologies, since then we’ve gradually migrated to a model of specifically targeting areas of life in which the application of BDS would spell at the very least deep inconvenience for the practitioners,” he continued.

Attendees at Professor Lancet’s address noted that beyond the phenomenon’s direct impact on honestly applied BDS policies, and perhaps more importantly, the ongoing trolling serves to highlight the hypocrisy underlying the movement’s proponents. “It almost doesn’t matter how, for example, forswearing the use of Teva Pharmaceuticals generics would impact a patient’s medical bills,” observed Dr. Simcha LeAid, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Haifa Technion. “Few, if any, BDS advocates practice what they preach – the ones who do would never be heard from, because making themselves heard would require the use of devices, technologies, and services with an Israeli pedigree. So this trend we’ve been following is essentially a constant broadcast of the ethical failings of the movement.”

“I mean, beyond antisemitism, incitement to violence, support for terrorism, and denial of Jewish self-determination,” he added.

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