Lisa Duggan in the LA TIMES: Writing in The Times last week, Brandeis University American studies chairman Thomas Doherty charged that the ASA ventured outside its natural borders and wondered why Israel should be considered singularly toxic. But if Israels horrific F-16 fighter jet attacks on Gaza Strip civilians this summer dont make the boycott seem sufficiently urgent, consider Israels escalating destruction of Palestinian culture: settlement expansion, night raids, detentions without charges, home demolitions, forced Bedouin resettlement and the explicitly jingoistic and racist elements that the New Yorkers David Remnick warns now operate closer to the center of Israeli political life. Naftali Bennett, Israels economy minister and a key coalition partner, just outlined in the New York Times a program for permanent occupation that easily meets the legal definition of apartheid. To condemn violence against Israel while opposing a nonviolent boycott is to say that the Palestinians, under endless occupation, should not resist at all. touch.latimes/#section/-1/article/p2p-81961919/
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 23:56:16 +0000
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