Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions at Ten Years

Reflections on a Movement on the Rise

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ID9200819
AuthorsMax Ajl (0000-0002-1422-1010, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume67
Issue2
Pages54
Publication date2015-06-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMonthly Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520
PublisherMonthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14452/mr-067-02-2015-06_4
OpenAlexW2230318844
LanguageEN
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Rich Wiles, editor, Generation Palestine (London: Pluto Press, 2013), 256 pages, $24, paperback. When in March 2012, Barack Obama paused briefly from approving orders for drone killings of Pakistani and Yemeni villagers, in order to reassure the attendees at the annual gala of the AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) that, "when there are efforts to boycott or divest from Israel, we will stand against them," the real target of his declaration was elsewhere: the myriad grassroots organizers across the world who have made the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns unignorable. Their mounting influence has provoked efforts to declare them anti-Semitic or illegal from London to Long Beach. In fact, the series of victories across the University of California system has so annoyed its managers that they have hauled in the Caesar of domestic repression, Janet Napolitano, to deal with campus activists. Obama's declaration of support for Israeli colonialism had a simple message to those many activists: back down, because Washington will not. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

Boycott · Declaration · Divestment · Economic history · Grassroots · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sanctions · Sociology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society

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