The Park Slope Food Coop, one of the oldest and largest in the country,
is set to vote Tuesday on whether to hold a referendum on boycotting
goods from Israel to protest the Israeli government’s policies toward
Palestinians. We host a debate on the international advocacy effort
called the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, or BDS
for short, which is inspired by the international boycott movement
against apartheid South Africa. "We believe this campaign is for the
sake of both Palestinians and the Israelis, because it would help us
liberate ourselves from the last segregation and occupation system in
the world. And it would help liberate the Israelis from the last
colonial settler system in modern history," says Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a
member of the Palestinian Parliament who supports the BDS movement. "The result of the way BDS
is framed, on almost everyone I have talked to who feels attracted to
it, is that the society, as well as the government, of Israel is wrong,
and it must be attacked," says Rabbi Arthur Waskow, who is opposed to BDS.
He is founder and director of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia. "That,
even using methods that are not outright violence, is not a nonviolent
approach." We also discuss the case of Hana Shalabi, the Palestinian
hunger striker protesting the Israeli policy of administrative
detention. She has been on hunger strike for 39 days. This past weekend,
an Israeli military court rejected her appeal.Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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