Gideon Levy has a fascinating piece in Ha'aretz contrasting reactions to Israeli professor Gideon Levy's call for boycotts to pressure Israel to end its 42-year old occupation of Palestine, and the enthusiasm of the international community for boycotts in general:.....
.....Levy also reflects on the historical development of boycott as an effective tool of civil resistance:
"Since the time of the ban imposed in the Jewish community by Rabbeinu Gershom at the turn of the first millennium, which applies to offenses of considerably less severity than mistreating 3.5 million people - namely, marrying more than one woman, divorcing a woman without her consent and reading private correspondence without the owner's consent - the boycott has been a just and appropriate civil weapon. And since the boycott of the apartheid regime in South Africa, the boycott has also been an effective weapon."
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Interesting!!! Just wondering why Haaretz doesn't provide a comment feature for this article contrary to every other one? Is it because Levy's articles usually drive the Zionazi nuts out of their brains!!
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