BDS is a global, non-violent movement calling for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions
against Israel until it complies with international law and respects Palestinian rights.
2. Why can it be effective?
Because it uses peaceful economic and cultural pressure to isolate injustice,
echoing the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa which was a success.
3. Why does it disturb governments and corporations?
It directly threatens financial, diplomatic, and cultural interests that sustain the occupation, forcing accountability where diplomacy fails.
4. How does BDS empower ordinary people?
5. Why is it seen as such a challenge?
It gives individuals and institutions concrete tools—boycotting products, divesting funds, cutting partnerships—to act where governments remain passive.
Because BDS shifts the narrative: from treating Israel as a “normal democracy” to exposing its system of oppression, making silence and neutrality impossible.
