In this context, the E.U.'s actions may look like piling onto B.D.S. Lapid may have a point that, in Western Europe, where negative views of Israel poll between sixty and seventy per cent, the labelling may be seen as of a piece with broad boycotts and encouraging of anti-Jewish sentiment.
They called upon "international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era... [including] embargoes and sanctions against Israel".
Representatives of Palestinian civil society launched BDS in 2005, calling upon "international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era... [including] embargoes and sanctions against Israel".
In addition to the campus efforts against Sabra hummus, there is a broader boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, framing Israel as analogous to South Africa in the era of apartheid.
Dermer accused the EU of supporting the broader Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which targets all of Israel, not just the occupied territories.
"I think it was more of an issue of members thinking it was an amendment about a broader boycott of Israel," said one Democratic Senate aide, reflecting on the Senate committee's unanimous vote.
Progressive pro-Israel organizations such as J Street and Americans for Peace Now have both done extensive outreach to lawmakers in an effort to explain the difference between the EU policy and the broader boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, which both groups oppose. .
Those elections would also have little meaning if an American-led military offensive to pacify those areas provoked a broad Sunni boycott of the voting.
At that time, South Africa was still living under apartheid rule and was banned from international competition, initially for its refusal to pick a multi-racial team, then as part of the broader sporting boycott of the country.
The SodaStream controversy, even though it concerned only the company's presence in the settlements, was inevitably caught up in the broader BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions) campaign, which calls on consumers and companies to cut off ties to all Israeli companies and institutions until the state reaches a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
