A pathbreaking conference on BDS ("boycott, divestment, and sanction") was held at Hampshire College, Amherst MA, in late November. The conference venue was aptly chosen: Hampshire College was the first major institution to adopt an official policy of divestment from Israeli-related securities. Since then, the student senate at UC Berkeley voted for adoption there and ran into the Zionist brick wall of veto, doubletalk, and sellout.

One of the main speakers was Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada (electronicintifada.net). Abunimah is author of the book One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, which proposes to revive the idea of one state shared by two peoples. (In his talk, Abunimah symbolically tried to "sell" the establishment-touted two-state solution, and was unable to get a bid of even two dollars!)

In this extended edition of This Week In Palestine, we bring you Abunimah's talk at that BDS conference. A major point of the talk was that BDS actions being enacted by justice activists worldwide are actually beginning to work, and to worry the war criminals who run Israel's government. [Disclosure: it's the same talk that we aired 12-6-2009. We think it's more important than ever.]

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