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Recent calls for the use of boycotts, divestment, and economic sanctions against Israel may seem to stand in tension with another position widely held on the left: the condemnation of economic…
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09.30.24
Jeena Shah (@jeenashahesq) is an Associate Professor at the CUNY School of Law
As Ntina Tzouvala has recently argued on this blog, a political-economic understanding of genocide can help explain what is unfolding in Gaza. It shows that the genocide should not be seen as an exceptional or isolated event, but as a violent tool to expedite what decades of settler apartheid couldn’t achieve on its own. It also elucidates why the solidarity efforts of the past two decades, particularly centered around “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” (BDS), transcend mere symbolism. Indeed, as recent student uprisings have stressed, BDS stands as a crucial instrument that, had it been more widely employed by the international community in support of broader Palestini
Israeli forces' tanks have reached a cemetery near Maghazi refugee camp that holds graves of World War I soldiers, and captured footage of its soldiers praying near a Jewish soldier's grave. Simultaneously, Israeli forces, using bulldozers, have destroyed many cemeteries of Palestinians, including the historic cemetery in Beit Hanoun.
Palestinians collect books from the rubble of a cultural centre following an Israeli strike in Rafah in southern Gaza on November 18, 2023 [Mohammed Abed/AFP]