Vorwort
$3,000 marketing and publicity budget
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements
National TV coverage on Democracy Now! and BookTV
National radio tour, targeting NPR stations and affiliates
Features in Electronic Intifada, Middle East Report, Journal of Palestine Studies, and more
Excerpt in Electronic Intifada
Advertising in Harper's, The Nation, and The Progressive
Published to coincide with Land Day, an annual Palestinian day of commemoration and tribute to the struggle for land and identity, taking place on the anniversary of a protest in which six Palestinians were killed protesting land confiscations. Land Day has been marked in the last two years as a "Global BDS Day of Action" with actions taking place in London, Toronto, New York, Paris, Rome, Cairo, Melbourne and dozens of other cities around the world.

Autorentext

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. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, NY, and a master's degree in philosophy (ethics) from Tel Aviv University.

Klappentext

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

Inhalt
Introduction: BDS: What? Why? Why Now?
1--Israeli Apartheid: Time for the South African Treatment
2--Israel vs. South Africa: Reflecting on the Cultural Boycott
3--On the Moral Responsibility of Scholars in Situations of Oppression
4--Just Intellectuals? Oppression, Resistance, and the Public Role of Intellectuals
5--Freedom vs. Academic Freedom: The AUT Boycott
6--Israel: So You Think You Can Dance?
7--Fighting Apartheid in South Africa, Celebrating Apartheid in Israel: Open letter to Nadine Gordimer
8--Between South Africa and Israel: UNESCO's Double-Standards
9--What we really need! A response to anti-boycott arguments
10--Derailing Injustice: Palestinian Civil Resistance to the Jerusalem Light Rail
11--"Boycotts work": An interview with Omar Barghouti by Ali Mustafa
12--Never Against! European Collusion in Israel's Slow Genocide
13--Boycotting Israeli settlement products: tactic vs. strategy
14--Our South Africa Moment has Arrived
Conclusion--BDS: If not now, when?