The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel is dangerously wrong because beneath the surface it’s an attempt to delegitimize Israel as a prelude to its elimination. No Jew and no humanitarian can stand by and see that happen.
“Let me explain why,” says British rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks:
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks – Brief Biography
Oxford educated, Jonathan Sacks served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 – 2013. Since stepping down as Chief Rabbi, in addition to his international travelling and speaking engagements and prolific writing, Sacks has served as the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University.
He has also been appointed as Professor of Law, Ethics and the Bible at King’s College London.
The author of 25 books, Sacks has published commentaries on the daily Jewish prayer book siddur and has completed commentaries to the Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Pesach festival prayer-books (machzorim). His most recent secular book – The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning – was published in July 2011. A number of his books have won literary awards.
A regular contributor to national media, frequently appearing on BBC Radio 4‘s Thought for the Day or writing the Credo column or opinion pieces in The Times, Sacks was awarded ‘The Sanford St Martin’s Trust Personal Award’ for 2013 for “his advocacy of Judaism and religion in general”.
At a Gala Dinner held in Central London in May 2013 to mark the completion of the Chief Rabbi’s time in office, HRH The Prince of Wales called Sacks a “light unto this nation“, whose “guidance on any given issue has never failed to be of practical value and deeply grounded in the kind of wisdom that is increasingly hard to come by.”
On question of human rights he is considered a world authority.
