Only outside pressure can stop Israel's war crimes | Naomi Klein

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Not too late for all of us to create our own foreign policy from below, one that intervenes in the culture and economy in intelligent and strategic ways - ways that offer tangible hope that Israel's decades of unchecked impunity will finally come to an end.
56% : From bus boycotts to fossil fuel divestment, BDS tactics have a well-documented history as the most potent weapons in the nonviolent arsenal.
51% : Once again, nothing stays static, impunity expands, and when the rights to boycott and divest are stripped away for Palestinian solidarity, the right to use these same tools to push for climate action, gun control and LGBTQ+ rights are stripped as well.
50% : To date in the United States, a total of 293 anti-BDS bills have been introduced across the country, and they have been enacted in 38 states, according to Palestine Legal, which has closely tracked this surge.
50% : A recent analysis by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz notes that if the ICJ rules in South Africa's favour, even if the US vetoes military intervention at the United Nations, "an injunction could result in Israel and Israeli companies being ostracized and subject to sanctions imposed by individual countries or blocs".Grassroots boycotts, meanwhile, are already beginning to bite.
48% : In my 2009 article, I quoted their first lobbying letter, which called for "the adoption of immediate restrictive measures and sanctions" against their own country and drew direct parallels with the South African anti-apartheid struggle.
48% : The clear goal was crushing the Palestinian movement for self-determination through force, alongside physical and political isolation and fragmentation.
47% : The responsibility is particularly acute for those of us whose governments continue to actively aid Israel with deadly weapons, lucrative trade deals and vetoes at the United Nations.
47% : The combination of these actions may well have contributed to the most significant development in the history of BDS: South Africa's application to the International Court of Justice in the Hague accusing Israel of committing genocide and calling for provisional measures to stop its attack on Gaza.
43% : That is antisemitism, not political activism.
42% : Barghouti stresses that, just as some white South Africans supported the anti-apartheid campaigns during that long struggle, Jewish Israelis who oppose their country's systemic violations of international law are welcome to join BDS.
42% : They disappeared because the entire idea of having a debate was displaced by one all-consuming strategy: using legal and institutional intimidation to put BDS tactics out of reach and shut the movement down.
37% : Reading BDS documents from the mid- and late 2000s, I am most struck by the extent to which the political and human terrain has deteriorated.
37% : It was Donald Trump who began showering Israel with these latest, long-sought-after gifts, but the process carried on seamlessly under Joe Biden.

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