70 US Academics Call For Selective Boycott of Israeli Settlements
BDS alienated me and many other Jews. We want peace irrespective of blaming either the Israelis or the Arabs. The ONLY path to peace requires two states.
That path may be hard on the Israelis. Palestinians have never had a peace movement. However, this is the only path and Israeli settlements create a reality in place, a reality that will block any effort by the Arabs or the world community to bring peace.
The 70 American academics sponsoring this effort say, “It is our hope that changes in American policy, limited to the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories, will encourage all parties to negotiate a two-state solution,” published in the New York Review of Books.
The writers of the letter call on the United States government to “exclude settlements from trade benefits accorded to Israeli enterprises, and to strip all such Israeli entities in the West Bank from the tax exemptions that the Internal Revenue Service currently grants to American nonprofit tax-exempt organizations.”
READ THE LETTER: To sign this letter, e-mail [email protected].