Summary
A student organization whose chapters’ grassroots activists are thanked first in the Acknowledgments of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, and whose campus divestment work the book treats as a base of the Palestine movement (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1399-1425, 1783-1795, 1849-1862).
Details
- Dozens of student governments have adopted divestment or other BDS measures, and the movement’s challenge is translating that grassroots support into policy change (lines 1405-1425).
- The interviewers’ question in Chapter 7 states that the BDS Movement in the United States has been most successful, with the possible exception of the churches, on college campuses through Students for Justice in Palestine and the academic boycott, while elsewhere, especially in Europe and South Africa, there have been more successes in trade unions and at state level, as in Ireland’s Occupied Territories Bill — attributed to the centrality of Israel in the US imperial project and the relative weakness of the US labor movement (line 1466).
- The Conclusion urges campus activists to build solidarity with education workers to forge ties with organized labor beyond campus walls (lines 1778-1790).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, BDS movement, BDS National Committee