BDS: Twenty Years of Failure

The goals of the Jew-hating BDS movement have true, but in reverse.

The year 2025 marks 20 years since the BDS movement set out to bring about the defeat of Israel by isolating it geopolitically and boycotting it economically. So let's review the results of their campaign:

Over that period, Israel has overtaken all the major European nations in terms of GDP per capita and now boasts the 8th highest GDP per capita in the world, of all nations with 10 million population.

Far from being isolated, the Israeli passport is now one of the most powerful in the world:

Israelis have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 170 countries, making the Israeli passport 19th in the world.

Over the 20 years since BDS was founded, Israel's population has surged from 6.8 million to over 10 million. It remains the only OECD country with a stable population pyramid and an above replacement birthrate.

Its currency has steadily strengthened against major currencies, and Israel now holds foreign reserves of $210,000,000,000, fourth in the world per capita among major economies.

Since the BDS movement started campaigning for people to stop buying Israeli exports, Israel's exports have doubled.

And despite all the propaganda, people still prefer Israel over her enemies, and by large margins.

Since BDS started its campaign Arab nations, previously hostile to Israel, have signed peace treaties with it. Treaties that even survived the Gaza War.

But don't forget, just because they failed doesn't mean BDS is not an antisemitic organization: This is Omar Bhargouti accidentally explaining why: They would oppose a Christian State or a Muslim State but they don't, despite 70 options. Just the Jewish one.

When you uniquely single out Jewish people, organizations, or nations for opprobrium, you are antisemitic. In fact, that is the definition. So it is not surprising then, that BDS, like so many Jew-hating groups before it, has failed in its mission.