BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

Préface
$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
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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.

Auteur
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 a 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.

Texte du rabat

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

Résumé
“I have been to Palestine where I've witnessed the racially segregated housing and the humiliation of Palestinians at military roadblocks. I can't help but remember the conditions we experienced in South Africa under apartheid. We could not have achieved our freedom without the help of people around the world using the nonviolent means of boycotts and divestment to compel governments and institutions to withdraw their support for the apartheid regime. Omar Barghouti's lucid and morally compelling book is perfectly timed to make a major contribution to this urgently needed global campaign for justice, freedom and peace.
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu

THIRTY YEARS ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world 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. Aimed at forcing the State of Israel to uphold international law and universal human rights for the Palestinian people, here is a manifesto for change.

“No one has done more to build the intellectual, legal and moral case for BDS than Omar Barghouti. The global Palestinian solidarity movement has been transformed and is on the cusp of major new breakthroughs.
—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo

"There is no more comprehensive and persuasive case than his for boycott, divestment, and sanctions to end the Israeli occupation and establish the ethical claim of Palestinian rights.
—Judith Butler, University of California at Berkeley

Contenu
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?