Generation Palestine
Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
The unique model of apartheid, colonisation and military occupation that Israel imposes on the Palestinians, along with myriad violations of international law, have made Palestine the moral cause of a generation. Yet many people continue to ask, 'what can we do?' Generation Palestine helps to answer this question by bringing together Palestinian and international activists in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The movement aims to pressure Israel until it complies with International Law, mirroring the model that was successfully utilised against South African apartheid. With essays written by a wide selection of contributors, Generation Palestine follows the BDS movement's model of inclusivity and collaboration. Contributors include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ken Loach, Iain Banks, Ronnie Kasrils, Professor Richard Falk, Ilan Pappe, Omar Barghouti, Ramzy Baroud and Archbishop Attallah Hannah, alongside other internationally acclaimed artists, writers, academics and grassroots activists.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Part I BDS: The Historical Context
- 1 Palestine’s Global Battle that Must be Won
- 2 Boycott, Bricks and the Four Pillars of the South African Struggle
- 3 India’s Freedom Struggle and Today’s BDS Movement
- 4 The US Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movement: Lessons and Applications for the Palestinian Liberation Movement
- Part II The Palestinian Call for BDS
- 5 The 2005 Palestinian Call for BDS – Official Text of the BDS Call
- 6 Why Palestinians Called for BDS
- 7 Self-Determination and the Right of Return: Interlinked and Indivisible Rights
- 8 Levelling the Scales by Force: Thoughts on Normalisation
- 9 International Law, Apartheid and Israeli Responses to BDS
- 10 Towards a Just and Lasting Peace: Kairos Palestine and the Lead of the Palestinian Church
- Part III Economy, Academia and Culture
- 11 BDS: Perspectives of an Israeli Economist
- 12 Colonialism, the Peace Process and the Academic Boycott
- 13 Faithless in the Holy Land – A Musician’s Journey to Boycott
- 14 Our People
- 15 Why We Back the Boycott Campaign
- Part IV Activists and Activism
- 16 Derailing Veolia
- 17 The Case of the Edinburgh 5
- 18 Worker-to-Worker Solidarity: BDS in the Trade Union Movement
- 19 The Derry versus Raytheon Struggle
- 20 Israeli Apartheid Week: A Gauge of the Global BDS Campaign
- 21 Palestine’s South Africa Moment has Finally Arrived
- Notes on Contributors
- Index