Daniel Lubetzky Quotes

Anyone who cooperates with BDS is operating against Israel and it is a form of antisemitism.

The founder of the BDS movement is blatantly anti-Semitic.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

BDS attempts to use economic tools to boycott Israeli goods and services and punish individuals and entities supporting Israel. It attempts to use harassment and intimidation to turn Israel's supporters against the country.

I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist.

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

Tel Aviv is buzzing with so much life, you could bottle it and sell it as honey, and even Jerusalem has a certain fizz. But if you want to see anger, go to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on a Friday afternoon.

I am against any reconciliation with Israel.

We cannot give any compensation for Palestine, neither to the Palestinians nor to other Arabs. Therefore, a voluntary agreement is inconceivable. All colonization, even the most restricted, must continue in defiance of the will of the native population. Therefore, it can continue and develop only under the shield of force which comprises an Iron Wall which the local population can never break through. This is our Arab policy. To formulate it any other way would be hypocrisy.

A boycott is the most peaceful and passive kind of protest there is and can be. We do not say we hate you or even say that you are wrong. We just say that we don’t want to ride your bus.

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.

Rules are not improved by sloganeering, fact-free letter-writing campaigns, or special pleading from interest groups.

Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.

The state of Israel will stand as one entity against any attempt to boycott its products.

I don't care if it's Saudi Arabia or if it's Israel or any other country. I can't imagine our members of Congress or even the residents back in the day that pushed back against apartheid in Africa not to be able to boycott.

The BDS movement attempts to undermine and destabilize Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East.

In addition to sponsoring the Defend Israel Act, I am a proud co-sponsor of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which will protect the state of Israel from politically motivated attacks in the United Nations and economic discrimination here in the United States.

BDS has been used as a tactic to raise awareness for Palestinian people, including women and their children.