Alwaght- The growing international campaign to increase economic and political pressure on Israeli regime through boycotts “is a measure of the global isolation of [Israeli regime],” a peace activist in California says.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) was started in July 2005 by 171 Palestinian non-governmental organizations in support of the Palestinian cause for boycott, divestment and international sanctions against Israeli regime.
Two US Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to combat the rising tide of the movement against Israeli regime.
Congressmen Doug Lamborn and Ron DeSantis introduced the Boycott Our Enemies, Not [Israeli regime] Act in order to stop boycotts of Israeli regime.
According to the bill, potential contractors with the US government should certify that they are not participating in any boycott against Tel Aviv.
The latest move by the “pro-Zionist lawmakers” to counter the BDS movement “is a measure of the global isolation of [Israel regime] that is unfolding with universities and intellectual associations and large organizations of students and others,” said Ralph Schoenman.
The large US corporations that are the target of the BDS movement for their support of Israeli regime “are the instruments of imperial control,” Schoenman said.
In 2013, two US academic groups -- the American Studies Association and the Association for Asian American Studies -- supported the boycott.
During the recent Israeli regime war against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli regime warplanes targeted a number of schools and hospitals in defiance of the Geneva conventions that ban such attacks.
More than 2,100 Palestinians, over 500 of them children, lost their lives during the Israeli regime offensive.
