Events since October 7 have made clear that the goal of Western advocates for the Palestinians is not a nonviolent adjustment of borders but a Palestine without Jews.
For the last two decades, solidarity with Palestinians in the West has been expressed largely through the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. BDS has described itself as a call from “Palestinian civil society” for allies in other countries to reduce commerce with Israel, along the lines of the international boycott to end apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s.
