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Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Boycott Divestment Sanctions The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights Author:Omar Barghouti "Barghouti is the future. He is intelligent, empowered, and non-violent. 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, author of Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in the Middl... more »e EastFrom "Operation Cast Lead" to the recent assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, both the severity and the notoriety of Israel's many human rights abuses have begun to seep into the public consciousness and convince growing numbers of the apartheid nature of the Jewish State.Boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) efforts helped topple South Africa's brutal apartheid regime. In this timely collection, Palestinian writer Omar Barghouti makes the case for a renewed campaign to force the state of Israel to uphold international law and universal human rights for the Palestinian people via a global academic, cultural, and economic BDS movement.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 and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, NY, and a master's degree in philosophy (ethics) from Tel Aviv University.« less