| Our website has been under unprecedented massive attacks, please be patient as every page will take longer to open, due to our heightened security measures to protect the website. No, the ICC will “not end Israel’s genocide,” let alone “liberate Palestine.” Nor can the ICJ or even the UN, and I do not know any sane adult who has claimed otherwise. This does not mean, however, to dismiss the piling, unprecedented, far-reaching legal and diplomatic blows to Israel as “nothing” or as “merely symbolic.” Doing so would reflect a serious misreading of history or utter ignorance. Justice is always won, not gifted. In all liberation struggles, human agency and revolutionary movements are the driving force. Only with seemingly endless organizing, planning, mobilizing, resisting, disrupting, coalescing, connecting struggles, and always learning can the oppressed ultimately prevail. All these massive legal wins against apartheid Israel are making the ground so much more fertile than ever, finally allowing our long-planted seeds of liberation to grow into fruitful trees of freedom, justice, equality and comprehensive emancipation. DONATE to the BDS movement: Help bring about Palestinian liberation faster! DONATE But first we must stop the US-Israeli genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. No one act, battle, campaign, demonstration, disruptive action, book, or song alone can end the genocide or significantly weaken Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid. But each one of them, if strategic, principled and persistent, invigorates and contributes to the vibrant stream that can eventually breach the daunting, overbearing walls of Israeli oppression. When the BDS movement first called for a comprehensive military embargo on Israel, for instance, States were too terrified of US wrath to consider it. Now, the global majority at the UN General Assembly supports it. Multiple ports across continents have been blocked for Israel-bound military supplies, and more port workers are refusing to handle such illegal supplies. Major European and Latin American universities are cutting ties with complicit Israel universities, and thousands of writers and artists have joined those supporting the cultural boycott of apartheid Israel. Major funds have divested from Israel Bonds, and massive US tech and energy projects have been canceled in apartheid Israel. The tide is turning. Israel is fast becoming an isolated, rogue state, and BDS is showing what our collective power can do and has indeed done. Share our call to support the BDS movement now. Still, like all streams, our stream of liberation is not straightforward, nor is its flow uniformly strong all the time. It ebbs and flows, twists around natural and artificial obstacles of all kinds, but it keeps going and growing no matter what. Only when a critical mass of people power converges and feeds into our liberation stream, can it sweep away those decades-old, seemingly immovable rocks of US-Israeli colonial violence and their “might makes right” depravity. Let’s keep organizing, peacefully disrupting, forming intersectional coalitions and fighting like never before. We absolutely must end this genocide and underlying apartheid. And we really can. Let’s. Omar BarghoutiCo-founder of the BDS movement, co-recipient of the 2017 Gandhi Peace AwardYour donation to the BDS movement is an important contribution to this process. DONATE |
