ON BOYCOTTING PALESTINIAN WORKERS

I have a short piece on the ethics of boycotting settlement businesses over at Norman Finkelstein's site. In the absence of a mass Palestinian movement, substantially reversing Israel’s policies is impossible; while in the absence of representative Palestinian organisations, it is difficult to establish whether Palestinian workers support boycotts at the price of their jobs.…

ANOTHER BDS VICTORY, THAT NEVER WAS

Mondoweiss reports on leading BDS spokesperson Omar Barghouti's recent visit to Italy: Barghouti also met with leaders of the metalworkers unions of Italy’s three national confederations, FIOM-Cgil, which has endorsed BDS, FIM-Cisl and UIM-Uil, representing altogether over 500 hundred thousand workers. In a joint statement, the unions recognised that the BDS campaign 'has proven itself to…