The movement to boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) the Israeli economy has recorded several triumphs in recent weeks. Protesters have tried to block Israeli ships docking in America and halt British purchases of military equipment. However, the truth is that apart from isolated case studies, the noise has yet to convert into any tangible negative impact on the Israeli economy.

So is it possible to take BDS to a new level, even with some help from the Israelis themselves? Consider for one bizarre moment what would happen if Israel was to embrace BDS, either because global opinion forced it to do so or out of some sort of revenge.

Well, one of the first acts is that Israel would no longer be allowed to support the shekel ‘overseas’ in places like Gaza, where it is the official currency. I assume that Gaza’s banks would default immediately and the savings of two million people would be wiped out overnight.

Similarly, Israel could no longer sell gas to Jordan, where vast swathes of the population are connected to core Palestinian history. As the Financial Times put it, the US$15 billion deal with Israel is supposed to ease an energy crunch for the Hashemite kingdom, whose economy is already struggling. Well, imagine who might control Jordan if there was to be a power struggle?

Within the Holy Land, Israel would be forced to cease investing in Arab vicinities. For example, earlier this week, the Jerusalem Municipality announced approval for “a new development plan for the Arab al-Sawahra neighborhood that will help bridge gaps in eastern Jerusalem. This will include the construction of 2,200 residential units and the addition of public spaces for the benefit of residents.” This, promoting the incubator in Nazareth, providing the infrastructure for the new Palestinian city of Rawabi and a slurry of other on-going investments in the Arab sector would move straight to the rubbish heap.

Israeli compliance with BDS would also impact on the medical sector. For example, 11 of the world’s leading innovations in wound care have emerged from Israel in the past few years. This includes the first aid item that saved the life of Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords, after she had been shot. Under such new rules, these capabilities would not be available to those who demand boycott compliance. (Similarly, neither would a US$7 stick that would control the whole of a computer’s operating system.)

As an economist, I know that my ‘theory’ has little practical substance. However, I believe that by turning the story of BDS on its head, I have drawn out the maliciousness of its basic premise.

Promoters of Israeli advocacy are eloquent at pointing out how Israeli tech can be found in Intel computers, mobile phones, water purification plants, bank security and much more. In other words, Israeli brain power improves the lives of billions around the globe at any given moment.

The logic of this argument is that champions of BDS know that they cannot truly invoke a full global boycott. Therefore, BDS is aimed at something far more sinister, which commences at the denigration of the Jewish State, and sinks into further sinister hatred. As Mick Davis argued in the British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, BDS is another form of anti-semitism, dressed up in politically-correct Newspeak to make it look, feel and sound acceptable.

And how do we know that? Because, as explained here, BDS will hurt those very people it is designed (purportedly) to help. Thus, overriding anything else, the true prime aim of BDS is evidently the elimination of the Jewish State.