How Successful is BDS campaign against Israel?
The past few weeks and months have seen significant successes for the BDS movement, with Britain’s National Union of Students voting to boycott Israel and a report by Israel’s Finance Ministry revealing that the regime could suffer significant financial losses if a boycott is widely adopted.
According to the report, the damage from an international boycott could range from approximately half a billion shekels ($130 million) per year, depending on how widely-implemented such a boycott becomes.
10 years ago, a small group of Palestinian activists had a novel idea: Inspired by the anti-apartheid movement, they called for a global boycott movement against Israel as a no-violent method to promote the Palestinian struggle for independence.
Long confined to the sidelines, the so-called BDS movement appears to be gaining momentum — so much that Israel has identified it as a strategic threat on a par with Palestinian resistance groups.
Its de-centralized organization and language calling for universal human rights have proved difficult to counter, resulting in a string of recent victories that have alarmed Israeli leaders.
The BDS movement — named for its call for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel — began as an idea by 170 Palestinian civil society groups worldwide in 2005. It has grown into a global network of thousands of volunteers lobbying corporations, artists and academic institutions to sever ties with Israel.
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