During their time in The White House the Trump administration helped negotiate a number of arms deals between Israel and other authoritarian governments, while cutting the Palestinians out of the process completely. This is sometimes hilariously referred to as a “peace plan”, but people usually roll with something less Orwellian and call it “The Abraham Accords.”
Given that there were so many important BDS fights in 2021, here are some products you probably won’t be interested in this holiday season, and the activists you can thank for it.
Donald Trump’s normalization deal known as The Abraham Accords wasn’t enough for Benjamin Netanyahu, so he surprised the U.S. administration with a call to annex the West Bank.
Democratic congresspeople who opposed arms sales to Saudi Arabia under Trump don’t seem to have the same issues under Biden.
This DSA’s BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group responds to the backlash against its call to expel Jamaal Bowman from the organization.
A growing number of Democratic Socialists of America chapters are calling on the national organization to take action against Rep. Jamaal Bowman for violating the group’s political platform with respect to Palestine.
The NSO developments and the terrorist designations were two separate stories involving Israel, or so most people thought. However, just days ago we found out that they are very much connected.