Summary
A concept the BDS movement has learned from Black feminists in the US, treated in Chapter 7 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction as fast becoming an indispensable component of effective justice struggles (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1440-1465).
Details
- In its macro sense it names how struggles against different oppressions are linked; Barbara Smith’s phrase for the overlap of oppressions is the “simultaneity of oppression” (lines 1450-1462).
- Barghouti: “We in the BDS Movement subscribe to the view that oppressions not only intersect but often evolve together in the fields of race, class, and gender, among others. As a result, we believe that resistance must be intersectional too.” (lines 1452-1462)
- Its instances in the interview include the Indian farmers’ union’s adoption of BDS, the 2015 Black for Palestine statement’s focus on G4S — the world’s largest security firm, highlighted for its complicity at the time in Israel’s brutal imprisonment of Palestinian political prisoners — and the BDS National Committee’s 2016 solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux (lines 1440-1458, line 1452).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Omar Barghouti, BDS movement, Black–Palestinian solidarity