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Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’
(www.theguardian.com)
Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, said: “Israel’s capacity to maintain its authoritarian system of control of the Palestinians, instead of cutting against the grain of politics in other countries, in some ways is actually at the vanguard of the rise of ethno-nationalist authoritarians around the world.
“South Africa was not a model for anybody in the late 1980s. But Israel is a model, whether it’s for Modi [in India] or Orbán [in Hungary] or the AfD [in Germany] or the Republican party in the United States to some degree. For all of those reasons it’s a much more uphill struggle, even though we are seeing shifts in public opinion.”
This is a very salutary point.