Title: BDS : boycott, divestment, sanctions : the global struggle for Palestinian rights /
Authors: Barghouti, Omar
Publisher: Haymarket Books ; Trade distribution in the US, Consortium Book Sales,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs Civil rights; Boycotts Israel.; Disinvestment Israel.; Economic sanctions Israel.
Abstract: Thirty years ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists isolated South Africa as a pariah state and heralded the end of apartheid. Now, as awareness of the apartheid nature of the State of Israel continues to grow, Omar Barghouti, founding member of the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, presents a renewed call to action. --From publisher description.
Contents: Why now? -- Why BDS? -- The South Africa strategy for Palestine -- Academic boycott : moral responsibility and the struggle against colonial oppression -- Just intellectuals? Oppression, resistance, and the public role of intellectuals -- Freedom versus "academic freedom" : debating the British academic boycott -- Reflecting on the cultural boycott -- Fighting apartheid in South Africa, celebrating apartheid in Israel : open letter to Nadine Gordimer -- Between South Africa and Israel : UNESCO's double standards -- What we really need! A response to anti-boycott arguments -- Derailing injustice : Palestinian civil resistance to the "Jerusalem light rail" -- "Boycotts work" : Omar Barghouti interviewed by Ali Mustafa -- Boycotting Israeli settlement products : tactic versus strategy -- Our South Africa moment has arrived -- After the freedom flotilla atrocity : BDS takes off -- Leadership, reference, and the role of Israeli anticolonialists : Omar Barghouti interviewed by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta.