Veteran Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has reaffirmed his support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, speaking in aĀ HaaretzĀ podcast interview.
Asked about the backlash against the boycott, both in Israel and in the United States, Levy said that the BDS campaign is still āthe only game in townā, a description he first used in 2016.
According to Levy, āone of the biggest successesā of the boycott has been the way it has āchanged the discourseā internationally; now āpeople start to ask and question Zionismā, and whether āit is the only regime we can have in this piece of landā.
āThis discourse is a very fascinating one,ā Levy said.
Responding to the claims made by the Israeli government that theĀ BDS movementĀ is āanti-Semiticā, Levy dismissed such charges as āthe automatic response of the Israeli propaganda against any criticism of Israel, not just BDSā.
Levy said he believes that as BDS gains more momentum, Israelis will move beyond simply dismissing the boycott as a form of anti-Semitism and ask if āthere is something wrong about usā.
Despite the denial and aggression, Levy continued, āthere is this knowledge that something is burning under our feetā.
Addressing the goals of the BDS movement, Levy said his understanding was that āitās about changing the regime from anĀ apartheidĀ one to a democracyā.
~ Haaretz/Days of Palestine
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