The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement suffered one of its worst public relations debacles
when it pressured the Spanish Rototom SunSplash festival to ban American Jewish musician Matisyahu.
At so many levels, the incident exposed BDS for what it is - anti-freedom, anti-Jewish, anti-just about everything we hold dear. Left twisting in the wind are leading American BDS activists like Ali Abunimah, Max Blumenthal and Joe Catron who supported the ban,
even as BDS leader Omar Barghouti ran for political cover and BDS author Ben Norton condemned the ban.
BDS defenders of the Matisyahu ban claim the ban was justified because Matisyahu is Zionist and pro-Israel.

If being Zionist and pro-Israel were justification for a ban, then BDS would be justified in banning the
vast majority of Jews from public appearances. So tell me again how BDS is not anti-Semitic?

We mentioned yesterday that the festival organizers had
apologized and reinvited Matisyahu to perform. Now the date is set, August 22, on the main stage: