Support for BDS is now more important than ever.
A besieged and starved population has been pushed to the brink of famine. The UK, US and France need to re-evaluate their relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Supporting BDS will hasten an end to the siege on Gaza and help lance a running sore in the Middle East and international relations. It deserves your support.
Rooted in the philosophy of Paulo Freire, ‘development education’ offers a critical point of resistance to the gross socio-economic inequality which fed the divisions of the UK’s EU referendum and US presidential election.
The West Bank has witnessed an upsurge in violence over the past year while the construction of settler colonies continues apace, but there may be hope in the BDS movement.
“There can only be one answer …if the international development sector is to reclaim lost credibility and relevance in the communities that voted leave.”
Is the book a time capsule from a bygone era from which we can learn ‘how it was’ rather than ‘how it is today’?
The ramping up of air strikes in Gaza combined with a humanitarian crisis compounded by a stalled reconstruction effort following last summer’s war, should compel us all into a heightened state of activism using BDS.
If one of the motives of Israel's war on Gaza was to crush the nascent Palestinian unity government, it may have failed. For the sake of whatever peace process is still possible, Palestinians need to stay the course.
The states in greatest difficulty since 2008 have been those most closely wedded to neoliberalism and accommodating to the needs of transnational capital. One hundred years on from the Dublin Lockout, many in Ireland are still ‘locked out’ from public economic decision-making.
Despite the Arab Spring, Israeli ‘facts on the ground ‘ will succeed without effective international intercession and greater Palestinian and Arab unity
