American proponents of BDS make significantly more damning declarations against Israel than my classmates did challenging apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid viciously enforced laws designed to separate racial groups into distinct social hierarchies. This is not the case in Israel. Israeli Arabs have full citizen rights and vote in elections, including a seat on Israel’s highest court. In hospitals and clinics and in the ambulances of Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical services (EMS) organization, Jewish and Arab doctors, nurses, and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) work together to provide outstanding care to all patients. The conditions in occupied zones are also distinct — the delicate result of years of fighting, false promises, and wrongdoing on both sides. Really, BDS is thinly veiled anti-Semitism calling for the destruction of the only democracy in the Middle East.