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Thursday, October 18, 2018
Erdan slams ruling in favor of Lara Alqasem as ‘big victory for BDS’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleStrategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan decries the Supreme Court decision to allow US student Lara Alqasem to study in Israel as a “big victory for BDS.”
Erdan says in a statement that the ruling “indicates a misunderstanding of the BDS groups’ method of operation, and harms Israel’s ability to fight the boycott activists who harm all of us.”
“The court played down the extremist and anti-Semitic characteristics” of Students for Justice in Palestine, for which Alqasem was the president of a local branch, he adds.
The decision has enabled “all boycott activists in the world to come to Israel and claim that ‘at the moment’ they don’t support a boycott,” he says, vowing to change the current law to close the “loophole opened by the Supreme Court.”
The Times of Israel Community.