10. Dismantling Racism and Settler Colonialism: Challenges for the BDS Movement

One critical tool for the struggle for equality and liberation is the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS), a vibrant, global movement, launched in 2005, to end ‘international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law.’ I believe this, now more than ever, just like when comrades before us organized for the dismantling of political apartheid in South Africa and were told they are imagining the impossible, they organized and they were victorious against political apartheid. The struggle continues. I do believe there will come a day when Zionism and racism will fall. The only question we are facing is how fast it will fall. BDS is one of the paths of resistance to make that collapse of apartheid faster. The question is not whether Zionism and apartheid in Palestine will be eliminated; the question is: how fast. Let us work together to make the fall of apartheid faster, and the liberation of Palestine sooner.