The Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions Movement is an international effort to pressure Israel into recognizing that Palestine and the Palestinians have as fundamental rights to exist as Israel has. The effort is non-militant, and rests on the belief that enough economic pressure on the state of Israel can force her to discontinue her murderous, inhumane and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. The Movement encourages international organization ...

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The BDS Movement rests, further, on its being analogous to the international boycott of the Boers in South Africa after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, largely because the Palestinians occupied Palestine for centuries before 1947, just as native South African blacks occupied South Africa for centuries before the Boer state of South Africa was founded in 1931. Both Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu are outspoken supporters of the Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions Movement against Israel.

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Authors Bio:
I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest Service in San Francisco as a Clerk-Typist, GS-4. I was active in the USFS's union for several years, including a brief stint as editor of The Forest Service Monitor, the nationwide voice of the Forest Service in the National Federation of Federal Employees. Howsoever, I now believe my most important contribution while editor of the F.S.M. was bringing to the attention of F.S. employees the fact that the Black-Footed Ferret was not extinct; one had been found in 1980 on a national forest in the Colorado. In 2001 I retired from the USFS after attaining the age of 60 with 23 years of service. Stanford University was evidently unimpressed with my efforts to make USFS investigative reports of tort claim incidents available to tort claimants (ie, "the public"), alleging the negligence of a F.S. employee acting in the scope of his/her duties caused their damages, under the Freedom of Information Act. Oh well. What'cha gonna do?