Antisemitism Exposed

I’m an Arab Muslim — I still don’t understand the antisemitic BDS movement

'Put down the phone, the medicine, the car, and the salad first. Then we can talk about boycotts'

By Loay Alshareef Fox News

Published June 24, 2026 7:00am EDT

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I am an Arab. I am a Muslim. And I have spent years trying to understand the movement that calls itself BDS, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. I still don’t.

I understand grievances. I understand the pain of a conflict that has cost lives on every side and broken too many families. What I do not understand is a movement that insists it advances justice by demanding that human beings reject the very things that heal them, feed them, protect them and connect them.

Here is the uncomfortable truth that BDS will never print on a placard. If you truly boycotted everything Israel has given the world, you would have to dismantle a large part of modern life. So let me make the offer seriously. If you are fully committed to BDS, then in the name of consistency, you must give up the following.

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