Omar Barghouti reiterates need for BDS

"Israel's current massacre in Gaza is premeditated, calculated and accurately executed to mete out severe pain on the 1.7 million Palestinians who live in that huge prison camp. That is not surprising, given Israel's record of state terrorism. 

"What is surprising is the failure of some otherwise conscientious citizens of the world to take any practical step to hold Israel to account and end its criminal impunity, particularly through widespread boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) initiatives. 

"All talk about 'both sides' is not just patently false and ill-conceived; it is downright immoral, as it equates the colonial and apartheid oppressor with the colonized and oppressed. To end all violence, the initial instance of violence by the oppressor and the consequent resistance of the oppressed, one must work to end oppression--the root cause of all violence. Thus BDS."

--Omar Barghouti, Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the BDS movement.