Summary
Palestinian Youth Movement organizer and ethnic studies scholar who wrote about the movement’s April 2019 delegation to Johannesburg, South Africa (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.242).
Details
- Qutami recorded the political uneasiness some organizers had with the South Africa analogy — its focus on racial desegregation over decolonization — and its embrace by others as a means to work toward boycott, divestment and sanctions (PDF p.242).
- The delegates found in South Africa not a model of success but an “incomplete decolonization”, requiring joint-struggle analyses and a renewed commitment to global, full decolonization (PDF p.242).
Related pages
Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, BDS movement, Black–Palestinian solidarity