Bds Quotes

“BDS is perhaps the most ambitious, empowering, and promising Palestinian-led global movement for justice and rights. BDS has the capacity to challenge Israel's colonial rule and apartheid in a morally consistent, effective, and, crucially, intelligent manner.”
― Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

“Some people are comfortable in hell, that`s why I crawled between your legs”
― Dirty Archangel, Lust is My Favorite Sin

“If it wasn't anti-Semitic to do it to South Africa, it's not anti-Semitic to do it to Israel.”
― Jimmy Dore

“Not only do the oppressed lose nothing when people of conscience boycott institutions that are persistently complicit in the system of oppression; in fact, they gain enormously from the ultimate weakening of this complicity that an effective and sustained boycott leads to.”
― Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

“From my personal experience as an analyst and dance choreographer working in the midst of "conflict", I do not think that, in a situation of oppression, intellectuals have a choice of whether or not to reflect the impact of conflict on them and on their society. Oppression, in a way, forces itself upon their work, their creative process. Their basic choice seems to be, then, whether to passively reflect it, or to actively transcend it. Oppression, it seems, has its own way of touching everyone within its reach, irrespective of one’s actual involvement in it or will to get involved in it.”
― Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

“In response to this fatal alliance of savage capitalism in the West with Israeli racism, exclusion and colonial subjugation, the global movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel presents not only a progressive, anti racist [3], sophisticated, sustainable, moral and effective form of civil non-violent resistance, but also a real chance of becoming the political catalyst and moral anchor for a strengthened, reinvigorated international social movement capable of reaffirming the rights of all humans to freedom, equality and dignity and the right of nations to self determination.”
― Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

“Peace without justice is equivalent to institutionalizing injustice.”
― Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

“In contexts of colonial oppression, intellectuals, especially those who advocate and work for justice, cannot be just-or mere- intellectuals, in the abstract sense; they cannot but be immersed in some form or another of activism, to learn from fellow activists through real-life experiences, to widen the horizons of their sources of inspiration, and to organically engage in effective, collective emancipatory processes, without the self-indulgence, complacency, or ivory-towerness that might otherwise blur their moral vision. In short, to be just intellectuals, committed to justice as the most ethical and durable foundation of peace.”
― Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

“In this sense (although the 2004 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice would, despite Oslo and subsequent agreements, reaffirm Israel's status as occupying power with all the responsibilities for the occupied population that are specified in the key documents of international humanitarian law), the Oslo agreements were designed in part to relieve Israel of many of the burdens of occupation-- as well as the need to police a restive population on a daily basis.”
― Saree Makdisi, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

“BDS is propaganda. It operates as such. Continuous repetition of simple messages is reinforced by threat of social alienation. It is surprising how well it propagates its message of diametrically opposite factors, the sources of good and the sources of evil.”
― Shlomo Dubnov, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“As we have seen in Donald Trump's Republican primary campaign, delivering insults instead of confronting arguments is an effective tactic. In BDS's case, it purports to replace fear with contempt.”
― Cary Nelson, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“As many of us have witnessed, BDS tactics are brilliant. Boycott has never been its aim; what university would go along with such a childish, antiacademic idea? Its aim has always been to bombard campuses with an endless stream of anti-Israel resolutions. The charges may vary from season to season, the authors may rotate, and it matters not whether a resolution passes or fails, nor whether it is condemned or hailed. The victory lies in having a stage, a microphone, and a finger pointing at Israel saying, 'On trial!”
― Judea Pearl, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“The one-way prism worn by BDS advocates is most glaring when it comes to the issue of self-determination. Some of their intellectuals preach for hours and hours on the moral right of Palestinians to self-determination. At the same time, they intentionally forget, wish away, or deny the moral right of their neighbors to that same self-determination. In the old days, we used to label such intellectuals racists and shun them from the company of those of goodwill. Nowadays, the label racist is reserved primarily for Islamophobes and white settlers, real and imaginary, while the distinct racist character of the BDS ideology is rarely condemned for what it is. It is time to change that.”
― Judea Pearl, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS