Lee Zeldin: “BDS supporters also claim that the BDS movement is nonviolent. The BDS movement does not distance itself from Hamas, a…”

“BDS supporters also claim that the BDS movement is nonviolent. The BDS movement does not distance itself from Hamas, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. BDS supporters, individually, are not distancing themselves from Hamas either. Instead, their criticism is focused on attacking Israel and, in many cases, the Jewish people specifically. Two Fridays ago, Fathi Hammad, a senior Hamas official, called upon Palestinians worldwide: ``Our brothers'' in the diaspora ``are still preparing. They are trying to prepare. They are warming up. A long time has passed with them warming up. All of you 7 million Palestinians abroad, enough of the warming up. You have Jews everywhere, and we must attack every Jew on the globe by way of slaughter and killing, if God permits. Enough of the warming up.'' Where are all the supporters of BDS condemning these remarks? This is two Fridays ago, calling for the murder of every Jew in the world. During a closed meeting in October 2017 between Hamas chief Sinwar and Gazan youth about reconciling with the Fatah movement, Sinwar stated that the time spent discussing recognition of Israel is over and that now Hamas will, instead, discuss when they will wipe out Israel. Hamas uses women and children as human shields. They deny humanitarian aid to their own people. They incite violence. They have launched rockets into Israel, killing innocent civilians.…”