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While Israel continues to be subject to intensified terrorist atrocities – six attacks in the last 2 days – (ignored as usual by the main stream media), the campaign to boycott Israel also intensifies. Some people have suggested similarities between this boycott Israel campaign and the Nazi boycott of Jews in the 1930s. As the following table makes clear there is absolutely no basis for arguing that these boycott campaigns are in any way similar.
| Nazi boycott | Anti-Israel boycott | |
| What was/is the ultimate objective | Physical destruction of the entire Jewish race | Physical destruction of the entire Jewish state |
| What was/is it based on | The singling out and demonization of Jews based on a set of complete lies (propagated by anti-Semitic bigots) about the political, economic, social and religious behaviour of Jews |
The singling out and demonization of the Jewish state based on a set of complete lies (propagated by anti-Semitic bigots) about political, economic, social and religious behaviour of the Jewish state |
| What was/must be ignored and covered up at all costs to maintain the momentum |
The genuine atrocities committed by the Nazis and their proxies against the Jews |
The genuine atrocities committed by the Arab states and their terrorist proxies against the Jews |
| Who was/is the real brains behind it |
Hard core anti-semites, national socialists, and politically active academics and lawyers |
Hard core anti-semites, socialists, and politically active academics and lawyers |
| Who else supports/supported it? | All the Arab states and also anti-Semites in the rest of the world | All the Arab states and also anti-Semites in the rest of the world |
| Business targets | Only Jewish owned businesses (or those working with them) | Only Jewish owned businesses (or those working with them) |
| Academic targets | Only Jewish academics (or those working with them) | Only Jewish academics (or those working with them) |
| Tactics: Direct Action 1 | Anti-semitic mobs vandalised Jewish-owned shops and their products | Anti-semitic mobs vandalise Jewish-owned Israeli shops and their products |
| Tactics: Direct Action 2 | Anti-semitic, swastika wearing, mobs daubed Stars of David on the windows, walls and products of Jewish owned businesses |
Anti-semitic mobs daub Stars of David and swastikas on the windows, walls and products of Jewish owned Israeli businesses |
| Tactics: Media propaganda | Cartoons of big fat Jews who control the world and eat non-Jewish babies; non-stop articles written by anti-Semitic liars demonizing Jews |
Cartoons of big fat Jews who control the world and eat non-Jewish babies; non-stop articles written by anti-Semitic liars demonizing the Jewish state |
| Tactics: Lawfare | Special Nazi laws introduced to both outlaw Jewish-owned businesses and criminalise attempts by anybody else to work with them |
Special EU and Arab laws introduced to outlaw Jewish-owned Israeli businesses and criminalise attempts by anybody else to work with them |
| Tactics: Secondary boycott | Non-Jews visiting Jewish houses and businesses were publicly vilified and threatened to be boycotted themselves if they did not cease their interaction with Jews |
Non-Jews visiting the Jewish state and doing business with it are publicly vilified and threatened to be boycotted themselves if they do not cease their interaction with the Jewish state |
| Ultimately who other than Jews was/is affected |
Rest of the world suffered from loss of scientific and cultural contribution from Jews |
Rest of the world suffers from loss of scientific and cultural contribution from Jews |
| What was/will be the ultimate outcome of the boycott |
Millions of Jews died, but it did not help the Nazis in any way at all |
Millions of Jews may die, but it will not help the Palestinians in any way at all |
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