Summary
The interviewer of Chapter 16 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, who questions Barghouti about the interview collection Refusing to Be Enemies she was completing (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, PDF p.209).
Details
- Her preamble: even before she completed the interviews for the collection Refusing to Be Enemies, several interviewees emphasized BDS as one of the most important forms of support for internationals to take up; she asked her interviewees in January whether they agreed, and “they all did, Palestinian and Israeli alike”, though not necessarily subscribing to the same form of BDS (PDF p.209).
- She quotes Barghouti’s 2007 Bil’in speech and his CounterPunch article on strategic partners versus allies, and asks whether he has become more strict in his interpretation of what support for BDS should consist of; his answer restates context sensitivity and the BNC’s leadership (PDF p.209-211).
- She raises the varied 2010 responses to the “Bil’in model” of joint struggle and, as a favoured approach of hers, noncooperation from within the oppressive society — military refusal, New Profile, and bureaucratic undermining of the regime as described in Gene Sharp’s works — asking why it was not happening to any significant degree; Barghouti answers that outside pressure raising the price of oppression cracks the colonial society’s unity, strengthening both the internal BDS movement and broader noncooperation (PDF p.211-215).
Related pages
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, Omar Barghouti, BDS movement, Boycott from Within, Normalization