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It was Egypt that got me thinking about the Boycott Divestment
Sanctions (BDS) movement in a serious way. I was already conducting a
quiet targeted boycott of settlement goods - silently reading labels at
the grocery store to make sure I was not buying anything that came from
over the Green Line.

I had been doing this for a long time. But,
at some point, I realised that my private targeted boycott was a bit
naïve. And I understood that it was not enough.

It is not just the settlements and the occupation, two sides of the
same coin, which pose a serious obstacle to peace and infringe on the
Palestinians' human rights. It is everything that supports them - the
government and its institutions. It is the bubble that many Israelis
live in, the illusion of normality. It is the Israeli feeling that the
status quo is sustainable.

And the settlements are a bit of a red herring, a convenient target
for anger. Israelis must also face one of the major injustices that have
resulted from their state - the nakba, the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

While BDS addresses that, among other concerns - the three principles
of the movement are... >>>