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In recent years, Palestine solidarity activists have pressured corporations to end their complicity in the Israeli regime’s violations of Palestinians’ rights.
Israel’s recent criminalization of six Palestinian human rights organizations has sparked global outcry. But this tactic fits into a global trend of lawfare led by right-wing and conservative governments, including in the US and Europe, against activists and grassroots organizers. it must be actively resisted politically and legally.
 Civil Society
Punctuated by the outbreak of the Unity Intifada in May 2021, the trajectory of Palestinian resistance is experiencing a watershed phase marked by new actors and themes. With the effective neutralization of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) since the 1993 Oslo Accords, the deepening geopolitical fragmentation of Palestinians across colonized Palestine and the world, and the global shift to cyberspace, new opportunities — and threats — to Palestinian resistance have emerged.
 Civil Society
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 weeks, including the direct threats made by leading Israeli officials against BDS activists and in particular against the movement’s co-founder Omar Barghouti.
Al-Shabaka Omar Barghouti
Omar Barghouti· Jun 14, 2016
 Civil Society
While media attention over the past few months has focused on a brewing third Palestinian intifada in response to the expansion of Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, Al-Shabaka policy advisor Omar Barghouti argues that a far more widespread, nonviolent grassroots movement originating in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has been building and spreading around the world. He reviews the formation and evolution of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, including its rights-based (as opposed to solutions-based) approach, its collective leadership, its call to Israelis of conscience, and its promotion of context-specific strategies.
Al-Shabaka Omar Barghouti
Omar Barghouti· Jul 9, 2015
 Civil Society
While media attention over the past few months has focused on a brewing third Palestinian intifada in response to the expansion of Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, Al-Shabaka policy advisor Omar Barghouti argues that a far more widespread, nonviolent grassroots movement originating in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has been building and spreading around the world. He reviews the formation and evolution of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, including its rights-based (as opposed to solutions-based) approach, its collective leadership, its call to Israelis of conscience, and its promotion of context-specific strategies.
Al-Shabaka Omar Barghouti
Omar Barghouti· May 4, 2010

Media mention

Les attaques d’Israël contre le mouvement de Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions (BDS) et contre d’autres défenseurs des droits humains vivant sous occupation, comme le personnel d’Al Haq, ont fait la une des médias ces dernières semaines, notamment avec les menaces directes par des dirigeants israéliens de premier plan contre les militants BDS, et en particulier contre le co-fondateur du mouvement, Omar Barghouti.

Al-Shabaka Omar Barghouti
Omar Barghouti· Jun 14, 2016

Observers cite disconnect between European actions and rhetoric on labelling Israeli settlement products.

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Five policy advisors of Al-Shabaka, including its director, contribute brief but important statements in Alex Kane's excellent summary on the perceived dilemma yet mutual non-exclusivity of Palestinian rights and an Israeli Jewish future. For example, Noura Erakat: "If you can’t have a state that privileges Jewish people, then what does the state become … For advocates of pluralism and equality, it becomes a better state, but for those who consider Jewish privilege a national right, notwithstanding the violence it necessitates, it is an affront."
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