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Source: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/04/07/israel-is-not-russia-palestinians-are-not-ukraine/
Israel Is Not Russia, and Palestinians Are Not Ukraine
(Foundation for the Defense of Democracies) Shany Mor and David May - When the Arab boycott of Israel began to fall apart in the early 1990s, groups of Western NGOs conceived of a new boycott of Israel. Instead of being policed by repressive Arab governments, it would be pushed by pure-hearted human rights activists. The strategy was formalized at an NGO conference in Durban in 2001. Ukrainians have not pursued their cause by blowing up Russian buses or cafes. They have not hijacked Russian airplanes or murdered the Russian Olympic team. They have not taken hostage and murdered pupils at Russian primary schools. Unlike Palestinians, Ukrainians do not pay their people to murder Russian children. That is why calls for sanctions on Israel will never command the kind of consensus that exists today for punitive actions against Russia. Shany Mor is an adjunct fellow at the FDD, where David May is a senior research analyst.