‘Global isolation of Israel increasing’: Activist
The growing international campaign to increase economic and political pressure on Israel through boycotts “is a measure of the global isolation of Israel,” a peace activist in California says.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) was started in July 2005 by 171 Palestinian non-governmental organizations in support of the Palestinian cause for boycott, divestment and international sanctions against Israel.
Two US Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to combat the rising tide of the movement against Israel.
Congressmen Doug Lamborn and Ron DeSantis introduced the Boycott Our Enemies, Not Israel Act in order to stop boycotts of Israel.
According to the bill, potential contractors with the US government should certify that they are not participating in any boycott against Tel Aviv.
The latest move by the “pro-Zionist lawmakers” to counter the BDS movement “is a measure of the global isolation of Israel that is unfolding with universities and intellectual associations and large organizations of students and others,” Ralph Schoenman told Press TV on Saturday.
The large US corporations that are the target of the BDS movement for their support of Israel “are the instruments of imperial control,” Schoenman said.
In 2013, two US academic groups -- the American Studies Association and the Association for Asian American Studies -- supported the boycott.
During the recent Israel war against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes targeted a number of schools and hospitals in defiance of the Geneva conventions that ban such attacks.
More than 2,100 Palestinians, over 500 of them children, lost their lives during the Israeli offensive.
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