Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series of excerpts from Washington Examiner columnist Jed Babbin’s new book “The BDS War Against Israel, written with Herbert London.

Throughout history it has been all too common for nations to oppress their peoples by depriving them of basic human rights. France, under The Terror that was part of its 1789 revolution, murdered tens of thousands of civilians as did the Kaiser’s Germany in its march across Belgium in 1914. Nazi Germany committed the Holocaust, Pol Pot’s Cambodia tried its hand at genocide and Stalin’s Russia starved and slaughtered millions. The Soviet Union was a model of oppression, sending unnamed tens of thousands to slave labor camps in the Gulag Archipelago described by Solzhenitsyn.