Comrade Maya on cultural terrorism: "In fact, the association of “cultural terrorism” with BDS actions has an Israeli origin. It gained popularity as more and more musical acts refused to perform in an apartheid state, citing their solidarity with BDS publicly. The state of Israel, in a natural extension of their attempt to brand any critique of its policies an exercise in either anti-semitism or terrorism or anti-semitic terrorism, called the international BDS campaign an exercise in “cultural terrorism.”"