BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

by Barghouti, Omar

• ISBN13: 9781608461141
• ISBN10: 1608461149
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Haymarket Books

Summary

As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.

Author Biography

Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian commentator and human rights activist. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Why Now?	p. 35
Why BDS?	p. 49
The South Africa Strategy for Palestine	p. 63
Academic Boycott: Moral Responsibility and the Struggle Against Colonial Oppression	p. 85
Just Intellectuals? Oppression, Resistance, and the Public Role of Intellectuals	p. 99
Freedom versus ôAcademic Freedomö: Debating the British Academic Boycott	p. 105
Reflecting on the Cultural Boycott	p. 117
Fighting Apartheid in South Africa, Celebrating Apartheid in Israel: Open Letter to Nadine Gordimer	p. 135
Between South Africa and Israel: UNESCO's Double Standards	p. 139
What We Really Need!: A Response to Anti-boycott Arguments	p. 143
Derailing Injustice: Palestinian Civil Resistance to the ôJerusalem Light Railö	p. 151
ôBoycotts Workö: Omar Barghouti Interviewed	p. 167
Boycotting Israeli Settlement Products: Tactic versus Strategy	p. 183
Our South Africa Moment Has Arrived	p. 191
After the Freedom Flotilla Atrocity: BDS Takes Off	p. 205
Leadership, Reference, and the Role of Israeli Anticolonialists: Omar Barghouti Interviewed	p. 217
Conclusion: If Not Now, When?	p. 225
Appendixes
Call for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (2004)	p. 235
BDS Call (2005): Palestinian Civil Society Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until It Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights	p. 239
PACBI Guidelines for the International Academic Boycott of Israel	p. 249
PACBI Guidelines for the International Cultural Boycott of Israel	p. 257
Notes	p. 263
Acknowledgment/Sources	p. 304
Index	p. 306
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