This is believed to be the first instance of a German domestic intelligence agency labeling BDS antisemitic and a security threat.

The intelligence agency for the German state of Baden-Württemberg referred to the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) movement as a “new variation of antisemitism” in its newly released May intelligence report.

In its report, the intelligence agency specifically targeted an anti-Israel group that supports BDS.

This is believed to be the first instance of a German domestic intelligence agency labeling BDS as antisemitic and a security threat.

The intelligence report, which was published on May 24, said propaganda by the neo-Nazi party Der Dritte Weg (The Third Way) to boycott Israeli products “roughly recalls similar measures against German Jews by the National Socialists, for example, on April 1 1933 (the slogan: ‘Germans! Defend yourselves! Don’t buy from Jews!’).”

The intelligence agency wrote that this list “deals with the new variation of antisemitism: anti-Zionist antisemitism.”

The intelligence organization’s full name — the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution — monitors threats to Germany’s democratic, constitutional order and is the rough equivalent of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet).

The Nazi organization calls Israel a “terror state” and the “Zionist abscess.” The intelligence agency copied graphics from the Third Way’s website showing a Palestinian flag with the words “Freedom for Palestine” over a person whose mouth is covered with an Israeli flag. A second graphic included in the report reads “Boycott products from Israel: 729=Made in Israel.” The number 792 is the product code to identify Israeli goods.

The intelligence agency quoted a January 2017 text from The Third Way’s website stating that “the Israeli economy is very dependent on exports… and therefore, as active help for the Palestinian freedom struggle, one should avoid Israeli products when shopping in local supermarkets and all products manufactured by foreign companies that invest in Israel.”

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