One Degree wrote:When it becomes a requirement others must accept or suffer penalties, then it is a crusade. Basing your foreign policy on it makes you a fanatic. The West is not immune because they are the West.
This looks like you're just parroting catch-phrases with no real meaning or connection to what I wrote.... like you're just reading catchy t-shirt slogans.
One Degree wrote:When it becomes a requirement others must accept or suffer penalties, then it is a crusade.
Crusade makes the quest for ethics sound fanatical, which it is obviously neither a crusade or fanatical to seek common ground on morality and ethics. Or to expect people across the world to do better for themselves and each other.
One Degree wrote:Basing your foreign policy on it makes you a fanatic.
I made no mention of foreign policy.... to strive for better morals and ethics is a personal choice, and hardly the will of nations that are often blinded by nationalist pride. Or at worse, quite willing to do away with morals and ethics in the pursuit of the selfish self interest goals of nationalist movements (power, control, international prestige, and hegemony).
One Degree wrote:The West is not immune because they are the West.
Immune?
No the west is not immune to criticism, just look at Trump's nepotism as an example. But on the ledger of ethical aptitude around the globe, the west is doing better than most.
But to try and drive this back on topic, the BDS Movement's core criticism has been based on the idea that the continued occupation and the measures of the occupation exceed ethical standards beyond the concepts of Israeli security (at least that is my interpretation). Thus divestment in Israel will harm the Israeli pocket enough to push peace measures to the for as being far more financialy benificial than continuing an occupation that is costing more and more lives and money.
But a blanket ban of Israel as a whole, I'm not in agreement that is the best solution. A boycot of the Jewish Settlements themselves, which exploit the occupation for ethno-religious nationalist gain and self enrichment at the cost of those who are occupied, I can agree too (within measure). But of all Israel, no.