Zechariah 12:3 “And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”
Editor's Note: Jim Bakker teaches to watch Israel closely because it is the prophetic timeclock for the unfolding of Last Days events. In Matthew 24, Israel is the fig tree that the Lord told His people to observe to understand the times. It is like a barometer of what is happening in the nations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of American Jews that the boycott of Israel by some academic and business groups is “anti-Semitism in a new garb” and that those who support the boycotts are supporting an end to the Jewish state.
Netanyahu made his comments at a gathering of U.S. Jewish organizations in Jerusalem. He said that the entire purpose of the BDS Movement was to “end the Jewish state.” BDS stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
The group is backed and driven on the political stage by Palestinian activists.
“I think the most eerie thing, the most disgraceful thing is to have people on the soil of Europe talking about the boycott of the Jews,” Netanyahu said. “In the past, anti-Semites boycotted Jewish businesses and today they call for the boycott of the Jewish state. And by the way, only the Jewish state.”
Netanyahu noted the same people do not call for boycotts of countries or groups that kill Israeli citizens via terrorist attacks.
The head of the Palestinian BDS national committee said that “the BDS movement is steadily making ‘Brand Israel’ a toxic one.”
