Despite BDS, Hamas Still Supplying Targets To IDF

“What we have here is an ongoing effort to give the enemy things to destroy.”

Gaza City, December 4 – Activists working toward the economic, political, and cultural isolation of the Jewish State voiced frustration today that the Palestinian movement governing the Gaza Strip continues to defy the boycott call by providing numerous facilities, personnel, materiel, and other objects or locations for Israel to hit with artillery or rockets.

The movement calling itself BDS – for Boycott, Divest, Sanctions – has for more than a decade striven to convince, dupe, or browbeat prominent individuals and organizations to disengage with Israel and Jewish Israelis, with the aim of compromising the security, economy, and legitimacy of the Jewish State. a continual sticking point, however, occurs with some regularity on the subject of Palestinian observance of such a boycott: as the ostensible cause for the existence of BDS against Israel in the first place, they nevertheless consume Israeli products in large quantities, find employment in Israel and Israeli ventures, attend Israeli educational institutions, and sell agricultural and other goods in the Israeli market. Activists display understanding of these Palestinian decisions, which they believe stem from lack of other options and not disagreement with the movement, but admit confusion at the phenomenon of Palestinian leadership in the Gaza Strip supplying targets to the Israeli military, the very entity with the most direct involvement in implementing the policies that BDS exists to oppose: preservation and protection of Jewish sovereignty.

“It’s one thing to attend a university in Israel, or run by Israelis,” observed Mustafa Barghouti, a longtime BDS proponent. “I may disagree with such engagement, but I can sort of understand that Israeli academia is perhaps the most natural place for us to find sympathetic minds and to form alliances. But that’s not what’s going with Hamas in Gaza right now. What we have here is an ongoing effort to give the illegal enemy entity things to destroy – and we’re supposed to be fighting against that very destruction. I’m at a loss to explain it.”

Another activist suggested the blame for such actions lies with Israel. “The siege on Gaza has a lot to do with this,” asserted former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters. “Israel won’t allow in all manner of important things, and that seems to include common sense. I understand that Hamas is constantly trying to smuggle things into Gaza, whether through Israel, by sea, or under the Egyptian border, and those could all be routes in for a shipment or two of common sense. But the thing with common sense is, if you don’t have any, you don’t realize you need it.”

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