BDS--PLEASE BOYCOTT, ME - AUGUST 28, 2015

It’s not enough that some countries have banned some of my books; I need a real boycott, like the gift Matisyahu got.

Why him and not me? Why make him (more) rich and famous and leave me scratching?

The boycott against Matisyahu did wonders for him. That’s all people are talking about. After BDS succeeded and then FAILED to stop him from performing in Spain, his fame hit the roof. People ran to his defense. People saw the BDS trolls for what they are – a group of thugs feeding off crazed Jew-hatred.

People saw them, finally, as window smashers, scofflaws, delinquents…beer hall goons who use bullying as a tactic to sell their phony grievances. For once the world took notice and responded with disdain and disgust, and rallied against baseless hatred.

That doesn’t happen often enough but one step at a time will have to do.

People saw the BDS trolls for what they are – a group of thugs feeding off crazed Jew-hatred.
People (like me) who knew no reggae and who never heard of this Jewish performer, Matisyahu, suddenly hoisted him on their shoulders.  

His popularity zoomed and his wealth, I am sure, doubled…overnight. His albums must be selling like crazy.

My books are doing okay, but nothing like that! I could use the coverage. I could use the backlash and thus the marketing that a boycott would bring.

I am just as Jewish and pro-Israel as he is – so where am I going wrong? 

Where is MY boycott?  

I have friends who are writers and filmmakers but struggling. They could also use some of that boycott magic.

The latest BDS stunt, the try that failed in Spain, did more to help Matisyahu and the cause in favor of Zionism than anything even Madison Avenue could dream up. What beautiful advertising. The caper backfired so badly that even BDS’ fellow travelers were forced back into the shadows….for the time being.

But it’s too late to hide for shame.

Soon the campuses will have BDS figured out.

In any case, where do I sign up? I’m ready for my close-up.

My pro-Israel credentials are all over the place. Read my columns. Read my books. I’m your kind of guy, a guy you should love to boycott, divest and sanction.

This just in…

I was invited to do a book signing in my neighborhood in Greenwich Village. I turned it down. I always do. I don’t do book signings.

For two reasons. One, I am not the type. That simple. I figure people will buy my books or they won’t.

Two, a concern, a nightmare, that only a small number of people will show up. All writers fear this.

But I could be talked into it if I could be assured that you guys, you BDS creeps, would come out publicly against my books.

I could use the favor. I am sure that if you picket me big time, book buyers will be lining up in droves.

Slowly, but it’s happening. People are wising up. Not so fast are they buying the blaspheming of Israel.

The BDS merchandising of hatred has grown entirely too stale.

New York-based author and bestselling Novelist Jack Engelhard writes aregular column for Arutz Sheva. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

BDS CAUGHT BEING TOO ANTI-SEMETIC – MATISYAHU WINS. THE PAIN IN SPAIN.....AUGUST 20, 2015

It appears that there’s a limit to anti-Semitism, so far as how much of it people can take.

Even anti-Semites can’t always swallow it in one lump. As everybody knows by now, reggae star Matisyahu was banned from performing at a big time reggae festival in Spain, this after BDS contacted the show’s sponsors, Rototom Sunsplash, with startling news. Matisyahu is Jewish.

So therefore do what comes naturally – boycott.

Apparently, this Jewish American artist is big in reggae circles. Jews and everybody else around the world cried foul, and Matisyahu was re-invited.

Spain apologized, the organizers blushed, claiming that they’d been coerced and intimidated by the Palestinian Arabs who run the BDS racket.

This is how they prove themselves to be tolerant and deserving of a Palestinian state – by heckling anyone who disagrees with them.

That won’t happen again, they promise – well, until BDS gets wind of the next Jewish performer, anywhere around the world.

That’s what they do, the BDS people. They troll the world to shut down or shout down Jews everywhere.

This is how they prove themselves to be tolerant and deserving of a Palestinian state – by heckling anyone who disagrees with them.

That is all they do. They invent nothing. They discover nothing. They cure nothing. They produce nothing. They contribute nothing. For all that, go to Israel. Go to the Jews. But on bullying and spreading hatred and discord around the world – on this the BDS Arabs and fellow termites are first-class. On this they are experts. After that, zero.

In Spain they did get their comeuppance and got exposed as they do in this thriller of a book.

Of Matisyahu, they demanded that he sign papers denouncing Israel. To his everlasting credit, he refused. He is not Israeli. He was born Matthew Paul Miller in West Chester, Pa., but as some are beginning to learn, Jews everywhere share Jacob’s Israelite birthright. Doesn’t matter where you were born.

Ask your local anti-Semite if West Chester is any different from Jerusalem when it comes to them laying it on.

Personally, the entire flap came as a surprise. I am embarrassed to admit this. Really – where have I been all these years? Until last Friday, I had never heard of Matisyahu. That’s understandable because we do not do much reggae around my home.

I will try it some day. That’s a promise. I already picture myself on the dance floor astonishing my friends to this additional talent.

He writes and dances, too?

Some good came out of this snafu in Spain. Chalk one up against BDS and its ferocious losers.

This time the world caught them in the act for being TOO anti-Semitic. That’s progress. Could be the start of something.

Or maybe not. But like dancing – one step at a time.

New York-based author and bestselling Novelist Jack Engelhard writes aregular column for Arutz Sheva. Website: www.jackengelhard.com