5-22-2014 Will Boycotting Israel Work? The Challenges of Religion and Ethnic-Nationalism in the Search for a Just Peace - Loren Lybarger University of ChicagoDivinity School Martin Marty Center Sightings

http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/will-boycotting-israel-work-challenges-religion-and-ethnic-nationalism-search-just-peace-—#sthash.7rPoRLpE.dpuf

 

 

… [W]hat Israel's leaders and many of Israel's supporters, including peace groups, avoid acknowledging is how the positions of Hamas mirror the presumption of Jewish ethno-religious exclusivity that lies at the core of Zionism in its various permutations. Critics of Hamas and BDS, for example, focus on how both movements negate the legitimacy of Israel as a specifically Jewish state. They ignore how the insistence on exclusive Jewish territorial dominance denies, yet, also reinforces Palestinian narratives of dispossession from and demand for restoration to the entire land….

 

… BDS may not succeed in altering the course of these developments, and the future it envisions may be incapable of resolving powerful and persistent ethnic and religious differences, but by raising the question of equality, it at least forces the question of how Palestinians and Israelis might forge a shared and just future together.

 

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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