Omar Barghouti: Message of gratitude and hope
“Many of you have asked how best you can support me to face this latest persecution. My answer is, without hesitation … more BDS!”
Omar Barghouti est membre fondateur de la Campagne palestinienne pour le boycott universitaire et culturel d’Israël ([PACBI->http://www.pacbi.org/])
Jana Tamimi, a 10-year-old journalist-in-the-making from the village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied Palestinian territory, asked me during the latest conference of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement….
Introduction Israel’s attacks on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and other human rights defenders living under occupation, such as Al Haq staff, have dominated the headlines in recent….
Omar Barghouti, given travel visa by US but denied re-entry papers by Israel, is forced to give his lecture at Stanford via Skype. Nonetheless, lucid, compelling, account of BDS.
[AURDIP’s note : Yisrael Katz, Israeli Minister of intelligence, advocated the “civil elimination” of the leaders of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement (BDS), and no western government protested. Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the BDS movement, reacts to the escalating Israeli threats.]
Mondoweiss co-editors Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss talk with Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the BDS movement Omar Barghouti on the tenth anniversary of the Palestinian call for….
As the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement grows, its co-founder, Omar Barghouti, has become a target for Israeli demonization. +972’s Rami Younis sits down with Barghouti for a rare discussion about BDS’s goals, its recent successes, and increasingly frequent accusations that the boycott movement constitutes anti-Semitism.
Editor’s note: The article was written by Omar Barghouti, who is a founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). PACBI is a member of the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Campaign National Committee (BNC). This article is the fourth in a continuing series exploring BDS and its connection to the art world.
BDS@10 presents a lecture with Omar Barghouti & Rebecca Vilkomerson moderated by David Stein at Alwan for the Arts on: What’s Next for the Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights Wed,….