Summary
Author of Chapter 5 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, “Defending Palestinian Rights in the Trump Era and Beyond”, a history of Palestinian rights advocacy in the United States since 2001 written from the work of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.146).
Details
- The chapter argues that Trump’s election paradoxically enhanced momentum for American support for Palestinian rights and for the BDS movement, and that a rights-based approach — affirming rights irrespective of the solution proposed, rather than implementing a defunct Two-state solution — has greater prospects than ever before (PDF p.146).
- Generating support remains a function of the US-Israel special relationship and of activists’ ability to expose the intersections between the Palestinian struggle and the struggle against racism in the United States (PDF p.146).
- On the path to sanctions, he identifies two tasks: intersectional organising and reforming the anti-lobbying culture that BDS success created, because “there is no way to sanctions without going through Congress” (PDF p.161).
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, BDS movement, Transitional justice