{"id":16808,"date":"2012-03-01T07:31:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T13:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16808"},"modified":"2012-03-01T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T13:31:26","slug":"ali-abunimah-finkelstein-bds-and-the-destruction-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16808","title":{"rendered":"Ali Abunimah: Finkelstein, BDS and the destruction of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norman Finkelstein’s views on the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement may be somewhat shortsighted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ali Abunimah
\n28 Feb 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Contrary to Finkelstein's claim that the BDS movement would lead to the 'destruction' of Israel, one can simply look to Ireland as an example of a lasting two-state solution. Photo: GALLO\/GETTY<\/p><\/div>Chicago, IL – <\/strong>In a recent and highly controversial interview<\/a>, Norman Finkelstein, long a scourge of Israel, turned his guns on Palestinians and their supporters. He accused the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement of being a “cult”, and claimed that its achievements were mostly exaggerated.<\/p>\n

But what exercised Finkelstein most was his conclusion that if implemented, the demands of the 2005 Palestinian civil society call for BDS<\/a>, would amount to “the destruction of Israel”.<\/p>\n

Click here to continue reading “Finkelstein, BDS and the destruction of Israel” by Ali Abunimah<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norman Finkelstein’s views on the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement may be somewhat shortsighted. Ali Abunimah 28 Feb 2012 Chicago, IL – In a recent and highly controversial interview, Norman Finkelstein, long a scourge of Israel, turned his guns on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4n6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16808"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16817,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions\/16817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}