Andrew Feinstein argues that the strategy that helped end South Africa’s apartheid must also be mobilized against Israel.
What do you do when a racist, apartheid state operates above the law, with the covert and/or overt support of ‘the West’? This was the reality of apartheid South Africa and is the reality of apartheid Israel.
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a peaceful mechanism to weaken and thus force concessions from an illegitimate, undemocratic and/or human rights abusing state or non-state group.
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