The Palestinian who opposes the boycott against Israel

[shira]

..."The leaders of the movement were stunned to hear a Palestinian who says that Israel is not an apartheid state," Eid says in an interview with Ynet's sister publication, Yedioth Ahronoth.

...In the late 1980s, he teamed up with the group of people who founded B'Tselem and worked for the organization for seven years. Thereafter, he set up a new human rights organization, the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. Unlike B'Tselem, Eid's organization focused only on human rights violations perpetrated by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. "There are many human rights organizations in Israel, whereas there are and were hardly any organizations in the Palestinian Authority that monitored its actions in this regard," Eid says.

The beginning looked promising. Eid's organization received significant funding from European states and managed to employ researchers who operated in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Five years ago, however, things changed, and the funding from Europe came to an end. "I think it happened because European policy in recent years has been to come down hard on Israel and not the Palestinian Authority," Eid says. "They view Israel as the main obstacle to the peace process and want to support the PA. One of the ways to show this support is to stop funding organizations that are critical of the PA." Unable to survive without the funding, Eid's organization was shut down. Ever since, he's been traveling the world, lecturing and giving interviews, criticizing the PA, and, more recently, trying to explain to the world that the activities of the BDS movement are only undermining the dream of a Palestinian state.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4667098,00.html

[shira]

1. continued...

..."I'm opposed to the boycott because it only ends up harming the Palestinians themselves. Take, for example, the SodaStream plant in Mishor Adumim that is now moving some of its operations to Be'er Sheva. I've met with Palestinians who worked at the factory and were fired because of the move. They told me they were earning an average of NIS 5,000 a month there, and that today they are being offered salaries of just NIS 1,400 in the PA.

"People there are deep in debt because they have taken on long-term commitments based on the understanding that their work at the plant would continue; but reality has slapped them in the face because of the pressure created by BDS movement. Today, they are running between the courts and the bailiff offices and is anyone taking any notice of them? Do you think the boycott movement cares about them at all?"

....Many believe that the BDS movement is tainted with anti-Semitism, and Eid has no doubts in this regard. "There are many anti-Semitic elements that have hopped onto the BDS bandwagon," he says. "I wonder why those same people remain silent when Palestinians are slaughtered in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria. Of that I say: No Jews – no news. ..."

[Jefferson23]

2. Hopefully people will read this through at the link and not depend on your highlighted crap.

He confirms that the PA sucks..what a shock..not. The EU should not have
cut their funding.

His opinion is that Israel will need it's own citizens to end the occupation, he is
mostly right about that and he also appears to know how unlikely that is given
the current state of affairs.

He does not agree with BDS as a means, he is certainly right that BDS requires long
term commitment and more sacrifice..that is not unusual nor unfair to feel his people
who have suffered as they have should also tolerate their wages compromised by boycotts.

If you thought this OP helped Israeli policy look good or in some way justifiable, I
believe you are mistaken on many fronts.