1980s - During the Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign against racist South Africa, adversaries of the movement said that a āwhites onlyā South Africa had a āright to existā and that singling out South Africa was wrong when the BDS movement wasnāt also targeting the Soviet Union or āBlack on Black crime.ā
Jerry Falwell, the Ronald Reagan administration, and other right-wing forces accused BDS of aiding and abetting terrorism by advocating on behalf of the āconvicted terroristā Nelson Mandela.















