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PRAISE FOR BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS

I have been to Palestine where Ive witnessed the racially segregated housing and the humiliation of Palestinians at military roadblocks. I cant 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 Barghoutis 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

I commend this excellent book by Omar Barghouti. It challenges the international community to support the BDS campaign until the entire Palestinian people can exercise their inalienable rights to freedom and self-determination and until Israel fully complies with its obligations under international law. BDS is a call to refuse to be silent in the face of military occupation of the Palestinian people by the Israeli regime, apartheid, and colonialism. BDS is a nonviolent way in which each of us and our governments can follow our conscience and rightful moral and legal responsibility and act now to save Palestinian lives by demanding that the Israeli apartheid regime give justice and equality to all.

Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate

This is a book about the political actions necessary to hinder and finally to stop the Israeli state machine that is operating every day to eliminate the Palestinian people. It is like an engineers report, not a sermon. Read it, decide, and then act.

John Berger, author

When powerful governments will not act, ordinary people must take the lead. Essential reading for all who care about justice and the plight of an oppressed people.

Ken Loach, filmmaker

The ABC for internationalist support for Palestine is BDS. And the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against Israeli cruelty and injustice is gaining in significance and scope. Like the anti-apartheid movement against racist South Africa, BDS is helping to make a tremendous difference in what has been a most difficult struggle for human rights and the right of a colonized and dispossessed people to national self-determination. This inspiring book is a weapon in a noble struggle in which all right-thinking people can play a part.

Ronnie Kasrils, author, activist, and
former South African government minister

Once again Omar Barghouti delivers a conceptually lucid argument for the BDS movement that is difficult to refute. He offers a principled position accompanied by nuanced and thorough analyses, and though one may not agree with all of his claims, one is fully persuaded by the passionate clarity of his appeal. Barghouti reminds us what public responsibility entails, and we are lucky to have his relentless and intelligent analysis and argument. 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

Barghouti explains with lucidity, passion, and unrivaled intelligence... that bringing an end to apartheid in Palestine and seeing justice and equality for all the people who live there is not a distant dream but a reality we can bring about in the next few years using BDS.

Ali Abunimah, author ofOne Countryand cofounder ofElectronic Intifada

Barghouti is the future. He is intelligent, empowered, and nonviolent. He is completely impressive. It would help Americans to see such a picture of Palestinian political engagement when they have such a distorted image of who Palestinians are. Some day they will know him.

Phillip Weiss, cofounder of Mondoweiss:
The War of Ideas in the Middle East

INTRODUCTION

Besiege your siege ... there is no other way.

Mahmoud Darwish

Since it is in a concrete situation that the oppressor-oppressed contradiction is established, the resolution of this contradiction must be objectively verifiable. Hence, the radical requirementboth for the individual who discovers himself or herself to be an oppressor and for the oppressedthat the concrete situation which begets oppression must be transformed.

Paulo Freire

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

Almost every day, the pale, slender woman complains to the ruthless, self-righteous ruffian about the miserable little shack she is confined to, not to mention the daily abuse she has to put up with. Sick of her endless whining, one day he brings in a goat to stay with them. Her complaints turn into desperate sobbing, quite expectedly, so he punches her until she bleeds. She cries in silence, mourning for the day when she had more space, without the goat crowding the miserable shack.

After weeks of her begging, he gets rid of the goat. Now she feels she has her space again. Everything is finally back to normaljust the usual dose of abuse and exploitation. For a day she is content with her accomplishment, but the next morning she wakes up with an eruption of long-suppressed memories, erasing her forgetfulness and disturbing her peace. She remembers when he first abducted her and forced her into slavery. She realizes how she has rationalized and internalized the battering as part of surviving, as the lesser evil. She could no longer care less about an extra few square feet here or there. She wants to feel whole again, and nothing less than her freedomunmitigated, unconditionalwould do. So she sets out to resist and calls out for support.

For more than six decades Israel has enjoyed the best of both worlds, a free hand to implement its extremist colonial agenda of ethnically cleansing as many indigenous Palestinians from their homeland and grabbing as much of their land as possible and, simultaneously, a deceptive, mythical reputation for democracy and enlightenment. It has effectively succeeded in cynically exploiting the Nazi genocide of European Jewish communities, transforming the pain and guilt felt across the West into an almost invincible shield from censure and accountability. As Archbishop Desmond Tutu said: I think the West, quite rightly, is feeling contrite, penitent, for its awful connivance with the Holocaust. The penance is being paid by the Palestinians. I just hope again that ordinary citizens in the West will wake up and say we refuse to be part of this.

The collapse of the Soviet Union, the emergence of the United States as the sole superpower, and the ascension in Washington of a militarist neoconservative self-described cabal with uniquely strong ties to Israeland to warmongering Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu in particularall allowed Israel to maximize its gains and influence over decision-making processes in the United States. opening up badly needed markets for the states expanding industrial, particularly military manufacturing, prowess.

Ironically, at the peak of its military, nuclear, economic, and political power, Israel started becoming more vulnerable.

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