Israeli columnist Gideon Levy has been writing for Haaretz for at least two decades. His writings have brilliantly illuminated the reality of Israeli apartheid, as it affects Palestinian citizens of Israel, Palestinians living in the Gaza Stip, as well as in Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied West Bank.
Levy describes himself as writing to “(re)humanize the Palestinians,” and focus on how they are treated by Israel.
Yet when it comes to the campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel called for by more than 170 Palestinian civil society organizations, he has on numerous occasions explained why he does not support
the movement. He even – at one point – went so far as to accuse civil
society organizations elsewhere in the world of having a “moral double standard” for supporting the boycott.
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