Generation Palestine Wiles T02572 00 pre 1 05/02/2013 14:15 Wiles T02572 00 pre 2 05/02/2013 14:15 Generation Palestine Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement Edited by Rich Wiles Wiles T02572 00 pre 3 05/02/2013 14:15 First published 2013 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA www.plutobooks.com Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 Copyright © Rich Wiles 2013 The right of the individual contributors to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7453 3244 4 Hardback ISBN 978 0 7453 3243 7 Paperback ISBN 978 1 8496 4779 3 PDF eBook ISBN 978 1 8496 4781 6 Kindle eBook ISBN 978 1 8496 4780 9 EPUB eBook Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data applied for This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental standards of the country of origin. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Designed and produced for Pluto Press by Chase Publishing Services Ltd Typeset from disk by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton, England Simultaneously printed digitally by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, UK and Edwards Bros in the United States of America Wiles T02572 00 pre 4 05/02/2013 14:15 For our children … Wiles T02572 00 pre 5 05/02/2013 14:15 Wiles T02572 00 pre 6 05/02/2013 14:15 Contents Acknowledgements x Rich Wiles Foreword xii Archbishop Desmond Tutu Part I BDS: The Historical Context 1 Palestine’s Global Battle that Must be Won 3 Ramzy Baroud 2 Boycott, Bricks and the Four Pillars of the South African Struggle 18 Ronnie Kasrils 3 India’s Freedom Struggle and Today’s BDS Movement 34 Prabir Purkayastha and Ayesha Kidwai 4 The US Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movement: Lessons and Applications for the Palestinian Liberation Movement 47 Kali Akuno Part II The Palestinian Call for BDS 5 The 2005 Palestinian Call for BDS – Official Text of the BDS Call 59 6 Why Palestinians Called for BDS 61 Raji Sourani 7 Self-Determination and the Right of Return: Interlinked and Indivisible Rights 72 Nidal al-Azza 8 Levelling the Scales by Force: Thoughts on Normalisation 79 Rifat Odeh Kassis Wiles T02572 00 pre 7 05/02/2013 14:15 viii Generation Palestine 9 International Law, Apartheid and Israeli Responses to BDS 85 Professor Richard Falk 10 Towards a Just and Lasting Peace: Kairos Palestine and the Lead of the Palestinian Church 100 Archbishop Atallah Hanna Part III Economy, Academia and Culture 11 BDS: Perspectives of an Israeli Economist 109 Shir Hever 12 Colonialism, the Peace Process and the Academic Boycott 124 Ilan Pappe 13 Faithless in the Holy Land – A Musician’s Journey to Boycott 139 David Randall 14 Our People 149 Iain Banks 15 Why We Back the Boycott Campaign 153 Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien and Paul Laverty Part IV Activists and Activism 16 Derailing Veolia 159 Adri Nieuwhof 17 The Case of the Edinburgh 5 168 Mick Napier 18 Worker-to-Worker Solidarity: BDS in the Trade Union Movement 179 Rafeef Ziadah 19 The Derry versus Raytheon Struggle 193 Eamonn McCann 20 Israeli Apartheid Week: A Gauge of the Global BDS Campaign 204 Hazem Jamjoum Wiles T02572 00 pre 8 05/02/2013 14:15 Contents ix 21 Palestine’s South Africa Moment has Finally Arrived 216 Omar Barghouti Notes on Contributors 233 Index 237 Wiles T02572 00 pre 9 05/02/2013 14:15