From the archive: BDS: how a controversial non-violent movement has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian debate

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2018: Israel sees the international boycott campaign as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Palestinians regard it as their last resort. By Nathan Thrall. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:09.4	Hi, my name is Hannah Frankson.
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0:47.7	My name is Nathan Thrall.
0:49.0	I'm a writer living in Jerusalem and the author of a book called
0:51.7	the only language they understand as well as the piece you're about
0:54.7	to listen to.
0:55.4	At the time I wrote this piece on BDS, the movement to boycott
0:59.0	sanction and divest from Israel, the subject was impossible to
1:02.2	ignore.
1:02.8	BDS had become a boogie man, the central fear and concern of so
1:06.9	much of the pro-Israel establishment.
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