Summary
Interviewer of Omar Barghouti in Chapter 12 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, “‘Boycotts Work’” (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, PDF p.165-177). The chapter byline in the text copy prints “Ali Mustafad”, the trailing “d” apparently a note marker.
Details
- His questions put to Barghouti, in order: why Israel is an apartheid state and how it differs from South Africa; what the academic boycott means and why Israeli academic institutions are an extension of the state; whether dialogue is more constructive than boycotts; what other histories of nonviolent resistance the campaigns draw on; whether the academic boycott jeopardizes academic freedom and whether it could enhance Israeli academics’ freedom; whether peace must wait for Hamas to cease launching rockets; whether Barghouti seeks a binational, secular, democratic state; what the sentiment on the ground is for such a secular democratic state; and finally whether the “international consensus” behind a two-state solution makes a single state unrealistic (PDF p.165-177).
- The binational question draws Barghouti’s clarification: “Not a binational state! I am completely against “binationalism” in our context. A secular, democratic state yes, but not binational.” (PDF p.174)
Related pages
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, Omar Barghouti, Academic boycott, Secular Democratic State