Lee Zeldin Quotes

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

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

For all its bluster, the BDS campaign is most notable, I think, for its lack of success. Trade is booming; tourism is soaring. The media campaign is full of sound and fury, but to the majority of Britain today, it signifies nothing.

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.

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

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

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.

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.

People have made a public career out of fighting government. They slam the government and they try to destroy the bargaining rights of government employees. This is an era of unfounded anger toward government. It needs to be brought into check.

There are two things we don’t like to talk about: bad government and bad culture.

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

If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated.

My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.

I applaud Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison and the legislators in the Nevada State Senate who have introduced SB 26 to fight the BDS movement in Nevada.

Constant pressure by Turkish consulates across the United States, as well as pervasive and continual harassment by the government in Turkey, has so far failed to stifle my dissent. As they increase the pressure, I raise my voice.

I've been fighting BDS before people even knew that BDS existed.

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

If the BDS Movement was isolated to a few tenured college outliers, that would be easy enough to handle. Unfortunately, it is not.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.