20 years into the ongoing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement that targets Israel for policies of Palestinian apartheid, over 400 musicians have announced their plan to do extra boycotts with “No Music for Genocide,” a new and special streaming boycott that will definitely work this time.
The BDS movement was officially founded in 2005 by Omar Barghouti. Just as it is factual to say that Israel is currently committing war crimes in Gaza, it is also factual to say that by any objective measure BDS has failed. Over the last 20 years international pressure has successfully stifled Israeli exports, but during that period the government of Israel has become more isolated and authoritarian, as conditions in Palestine have deteriorated, first slowly, and then with horrifying spe