On to the next question.

Do cultural boycotts of Israel help the Palestinians?

Do they actually help?

A boycott is essentially an act of psychological pressure.

Somebody's behaving in a certain way.

You don't want them to behave that way.

You create pressure to raise the costs

of that behavior, and then the person will do a cost-benefit analysis, realize that the costs are

higher for behaving the way they're behaving, and they'll behave a different way. And therefore, a boycott is

essentially engaging in a battle where the battlefield is the psyche of the target.

You are entering the target's mind and you are changing how that target perceives the costs.

It's not about objective costs.

It's about how the target understands the cost it's paying for its behavior.

And this is where the fundamental flaw of the BDS movement, of the anti-Israel boycott movement, becomes really visible and really hard to pretend

it isn't there. And I think really makes it not just useless, actually harmful to Palestinians.

And I'll explain why.

I'm an Israeli explaining this.

So this had better be a really good explanation, or you should have no reason to take it seriously.

Let me do my best.

The boycott divestment and sanctions movement officially wants no more Jewish state.

That's official. It's one of its major goals. It

believes, it talks about it, its founders talk about it. It is founded out of a certain class of

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