Why should we Oppose BDS Movement

I am a TM at Simon Fraser University and a paying member of TSSU (teaching support union). I voiced opposition to BDS. I was removed from the e-mail membership of TSSU when I am actually a member. I thought I would still share this message on Facebook:

Hello all,

Omar Barghouti the founder of BDS movement is a Palestinian born in Qatar. In Qatar he was denied the right to be a citizen of the country of his birth because Qatar and the oil rich Arab States gave him a guaranteed right to return to Israel and become a citizen of Israel. Israel accepted him as a Graduate Student in an Israeli University. He believed that it was Israel that denied him his right and not Qatar. In fact his birth right to a citizenship in the country of his birth is in the oil rich Arab state of Qatar.

Millions of Palestinians lived in the oil rich Arab states and were denied a right to citizenship in the countries of their birth in return for the "right" to return to a country they do not know and in which they were not born.

There are hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in camps inside Lebanon for past 69 years. These camps are built over territories rented from the Lebanese government by UNRWA and funded by Arab and other states money. These Arab states are the main financial supply for terrorist organizations like AlQaeda and ISIS. They can recruit Palestinians under the pretext of the "right" to return. They maintain the terrorism by building a desire over a right denied by the Arabs and requested from Israel.

The sole responsible entity denying the Palestinians the right to live in dignity by containing them in concentration in camps inside Lebanon are the oil rich Arab states that refuse to take them as citizens of their very rich states.

We are supporting the oppressor and not the oppressed by the action of BDS.

The only loser in the proposed BDS action are Israeli Arabs working inside Israel, inside the plants and factories we plan to shut down. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer.

Arab states deny the Palestinians the right to work, and the right to own property, in addition to denial of the right to become citizens.

Why support the oppressor and the rich to get richer and the poor to perish when we boycott the few Israeli Arabs who are citizens of Israel having a right to work and having a right to own property and stand idle doing no action against Arab states that are keeping Palestinians as a negotiating tool to "return" and producing terrorism to make the return possible.

I think the principle of fairness requires that we look at facts and not follow Arab propaganda and its funding against any state that exists in the region and is not under Arab financial, religious and ideological control.

This is why you should vote No.

Abir Chaaban
PhD Student
School of Communication
Simon Fraser University

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