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BDS : boycott, divestment, sanctions : the global struggle for Palestinian rights by Omar Barghouti
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This is a really helpful primer on why you should support the BDS movement. It is incredibly informative, provides historical context, and action steps for the world to end the occupation.
The BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Call, launched in July 2005, was endorsed by an overwhelming majority of Palestinian civil society unions, political parties, and organizations everywhere. Rooted in a long tradition of nonviolent popular resistance in Palestine against Zionist settler-colonialism1 and largely inspired by the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, it adopts a rights-based approach that is anchored in universal human rights, just as the US civil rights movement did. It resolutely rejects all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
The BDS campaign is among the most important forms of such “resolute struggle” by the great majority of Palestinians, who resist the colonization of their land and minds and demand nothing less than self-determination, freedom, justice, and unmitigated equality. The BDS Call, anchored in international law and universal principles of human rights, adopts a comprehensive rights-based approach, underlining the fact that for the Palestinian people to exercise its right to self-determination, Israel must end its three forms of injustice that infringe international law and Palestinian rights by:
1. ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands [occupied in 1967] and dismantling the wall
2. recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality
3. respecting, protecting, and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties, as stipulated in UN Resolution 194
As South African archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu once said: “I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Violence, and War
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