{"id":1105754,"date":"2021-12-10T10:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105754"},"modified":"2021-12-10T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:59:00","slug":"joel-pollak-miss-south-africa-lalela-mswane-may-have-single-handedly-destroyed-the-bds-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joel-pollak-miss-south-africa-lalela-mswane-may-have-single-handedly-destroyed-the-bds-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Pollak: Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane May Have Single-Handedly Destroyed the BDS Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoel-pollak-miss-south-africa-lalela-mswane-may-have-single-handedly-destroyed-the-bds-movement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105754&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lalela-Mswane-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak said on Wednesday that Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane may dismantle the anti-Zionist BDS campaign by competing in the upcoming Miss Universe pageant in Israel next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pollak previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/11\/29\/miss-south-africa-lalela-mswane-defies-haters-lands-in-israel-for-miss-universe\/\">noted<\/a> how left-wing groups sought to pressure Mswane to withdraw from the 70th Miss Universe pageant, including framing Israel as an \u201capartheid\u201d state.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe has single-handedly \u2014 possibly \u2014 destroyed this movement, because the symbolism of South Africa is very important to the BDS movement,\u201d Pollak said on Wednesday\u2019s edition of the Vinnie Penn Project, a radio show broadcast from New Haven, CT. \u201cTo have Miss South Africa going to Israel saying, \u2018I\u2019m not going to listen to these haters. I\u2019m going to listen to the voices of peace, the people who are reaching out to each other across the Middle East.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized, \u201cShe may single-handedly have dismantled this movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" readability=\"-8.2068965517241\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Vinnie Penn asked Pollak about the origins of the BDS campaign against Israel.<\/p>\n<p><span>Pollak explained, \u201cTwenty years ago, a group of radical anti-Israel activists started the campaign to isolate Israel, and they compared it to apartheid South Africa, so they wanted to isolate[Israel] the way apartheid South Africa was once isolated. Of course. apartheid South Africa doesn\u2019t exist anymore, a<\/span><span>nd that\u2019s what they would like to see happen to Israel, as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" readability=\"-8.2068965517241\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>BDS leftists based in South Africa initiated their intimidation campaign against Mswane, Pollak said.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe BDS movement in South Africa decided that Miss South Africa, a woman named Lalela Suwanee, who has a law degree and is absolutely striking \u2014 s<\/span><span>he\u2019s brilliant, she\u2019s beautiful, she is a role model for black girls not just in South Africa, but across the world, she\u2019s just an amazing woman they decided that she had to boycott the Miss Universe Pageant i<\/span><span>n Israel because they would not tolerate a South African woman going to Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cShe stood up to them, she stood up against the pressure from the BDS movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Penn remarked, \u201cT<span>his is very courageous. \u2026 It can be a risky endeavor [in this] climate, globally, but it is extraordinary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__gutter\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__gutter__right\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\" readability=\"8\">\n<div class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\" readability=\"36\">\n<p><em>The Vinnie Penn Project, which broadcasts live 6 \u2013 9 a.m. Eastern on 960 AM WELI from New Haven, CT, is available any time nationwide via iHeartRADIO.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak said on Wednesday that Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane may dismantle the anti-Zionist BDS campaign by competing in the upcoming Miss Universe pageant in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}