Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
37,3 (2022) 28-57
Keywords:
Arab-Israeli conflict Foreign public opinion
;
Boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement
;
Palestinian Arabs Politics and government 21st century
;
Antisemitism History 21st century
;
Israel Politics and government 21st century
Abstract:
Israel and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) have been in conflict within one another for nearly two decades. In this article we compare trajectories of Palestinian-led BDS mobilization and Israeli-led counter-mobilization by deploying two theoretical perspectives, a rationalist, strategic learning model and a political competition model. We find that the difference in balance of power on each side between state and civil society led to strategic convergence by Israel in its counter-BDS efforts but not (yet at any rate) on the Palestinian side. We locate BDS as an example of a transnational boycott movement and identify patterns in its conflict with Israel observed in association with other such movements. Our analysis leads to an explanation of why both sides see the battles between them taking place in the United States and Europe as particularly crucial.
DOI:
10.3167/isr.2022.370303
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