Summary
A coalition of over three hundred member groups across the United States working for Palestinian rights, founded in 2001 after the collapse of Camp David and the eruption of the Second Intifada; its original name was the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.147, p.165 n.3).
Details
- At first the campaign focused on ending American military aid to Israel by trying to impact policymakers in Washington, DC; with the advent of the BDS movement in 2005 it took a grassroots approach aimed at complicity below the level of government (PDF p.147).
- Its website’s “BDS Wins” list records corporate, church, cultural, university and professional-association victories over the twelve years after the 2005 call, at an accelerating pace; the campaign now spends more time coordinating campaigns already running on their own than helping groups start them (PDF p.148-149, p.165 n.5).
- It organised local coalitions against anti-BDS legislation and joined the ACLU-led opposition that defeated the federal Israel Anti-Boycott Act in the 115th Congress (PDF p.162-163).
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Yousef Munayyer, BDS movement, Lawfare