Mendel on the gala: “Answer to boycott can only be discourse”. “It would be wrong to describe all those who criticize Israel one-sidedly and sometimes with radical positions as anti-Semites” “We are fighting an ideology of boycotting the State of Israel.
Now attempts are being made to counter this with exactly the same means, namely a boycott of those who criticise Israel. The answer to boycott cannot be boycott," says Mendel.