BDS “is a threat because it makes Jewish communal institutions entrench themselves like armies and forces educators to think like generals”

I do believe that BDS is a threat to the Jewish community – but not because it will usher in a new wave of anti-Semitism or violence against Jews anytime soon. Most immediately, it is a threat because it makes Jewish communal institutions entrench themselves like armies and forces educators to think like generals. And, predictably, it will always be our students who bear the most devastating casualties of this mode of engagement.

Rabbi Oren Hayon, “After BDS Victory, Tending a Scorched Campus Community”, Jewschool (29 May 2014) [http://jewschool.com/2014/05/29/32276/after-bds-victory-tending-a-scorched-campus-community/]