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Israeli

Time for the

SOUTH AFRICAN

Treatment

Omar Barghouti PACBI

Apartheid

Iman …

Reminiscent Racism

Relative Humans

From Soweto to Hebron …

“[Israel] rests on … foundations of oppression and injustice … . [It] must shed its illusions and choose between racist oppression and democracy.”

Avraham Burg 2003

Engraved Oppression

“Palestinian education and propaganda are more dangerous to Israel than Palestinian weapons.”

Ariel Sharon – Ha’aretz 19.11.2004

Maintaining Israel’s “Jewish Character”

Human Rights = F (ID) ?

“The difference between a Jewish soul and the souls of non-Jews [...] is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.”

Rabbi Abraham Kook the Elder

(1st Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Mandate Palestine)

BDS

Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions

Moral, Effective, Non-Violent

Resistance

Moral Consistency

Israel as the Exception

Democracy Pro-Peace Civil Society Majority View

Reality Check

Civil Society’s Complicity Majority of Oppressors Zionist Apartheid

Shooting Oneself in the Foot

• Marginalizing the Israeli left
• Indirectly Punishing Palestinians
• Losing Influence over Israel

Reality Check II

• What left?
• More Punishment?
• What influence?

Holocaust /Anti-Semitism

• Perpetuating Injustice
• Targeting Oppression, not Jews
• Israel Above Law of Nations?

“Equality or Nothing!”

Edward Said

Happy slave Nice Master The danger of advocating a change in “the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.”Simone de Beauvoir

BDS Suggested Principles:

Diversity

Sustainability

Graduality

BDS is ... Smart & moral resistance