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DSA votes overwhelmingly to endorse BDS: our recommended reading on BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, AND SANCTION of Israel

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

This weekend the Democratic Socialists of America voted overwhelmingly to endorse the BDS movement

The call to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel for the occupation of Palestine comes just weeks after Congressional lawmakers introduced a measure to make support for BDS a felony punishable by up to $1 million or 20 years in prison.

Boycott has emerged as one of the significant cultural and political practices of our time. Now, as freedoms of speech and protest come under ever greater attack from the US government, affirming the BDS movement and standing in solidarity with Palestinians and other occupied peoples is more important than ever.

Here, we present our recommended reading list on the boycott, divestment from, and sanction of Israel, including selections from activists, artists, academics, journalists and fiction writers, from both within and outside of Palestine.

Save 30% on Israel-Palestine/BDS reading with coupon code BOYCOTT.

ASSUMING BOYCOTT Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production Edited by Kareem Estefan, Carin Kuoni, and Laura Raicovich Boycott and divestment are essential tools for activists around the globe. This is the essential reader for today’s creative leaders and cultural practitioners, including original contributions by artists, scholars, activists, critics, curators and writers. More	DIASPORA BOY Comics on Crisis in America and Israel Eli Valley Eli Valley’s comic strips are intricate fever dreams employing noir, horror, slapstick and science fiction to expose the outlandish hypocrisies at play in the American/Israeli relationship. More	EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION (American) Writers on Palestine Ru Freeman, Editor Extraordinary Rendition brings together the work of sixty-five prominent writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and beyond. More
SHELL-SHOCKED On the Ground Under Israel’s Gaza Assault Mohammed Omer In Shell-Shocked, journalist and Gaza resident Mohammed Omer provides a first-hand account of life on-the-ground during Israel’s assault. He maintains a cool detachment, determined to create a precise record of what is occurring in front of him—but between the lines his outrage boils. More

Latest News: Author Archive

“I knew where the line was. But that didn’t stop us.” TERRY HEATON is interviewed at Vox

Publishers Weekly chooses DESPERATELY SEEKING SELF-IMPROVEMENT for its Big Indie Books of Fall 2017

“Otten’s solid work deepens our understanding of a complex clash of ethnicities and religions.” WITH ASH ON THEIR FACES is reviewed at Kirkus

“Satire as grotesque as the hypocrisy it skewers.” DIASPORA BOY is reviewed at Electronic Intifada

“This is the era of ’68, all that hope, liberation and revolt, and when all of that came to nothing, the self-destruction that came next.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is a selection on Mark Perryman’s summer reading list

Mondoweiss calls ASSUMING BOYCOTT “a rich and lively analysis of historical and present-day boycotts and the ethical, political, and practical issues they raise.”

Queens Museum and ASSUMING BOYCOTT controversy “raises concerns about how museums might do business in light of recent anti-BDS legislation,” says Hyperallergic

The editors of ASSUMING BOYCOTT respond to the Israeli UN Ambassador’s statements against Queens Museum, at Mondoweiss

“Discerning facts amid the fog of war.” CATHY OTTEN appears on the Iraq Matters podcast

“It’s a type of criticism that hasn’t existed since the advent of Yiddish political cartooning.” ELI VALLEY is profiled at Haaretz

“There is intellectual rigour behind Valley’s anarchic cartooning, which exposes and mercilessly ridicules the outlandish hypocrisies at play in the US-Israel relationship.” DIASPORA BOY is reviewed in The Morning Star

“This is the era of ’68, all that hope, liberation and revolt and when all of that came to nothing, the self-destruction that came next.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is featured on a summer reading list from Philosophy Football

ELISSA SHEVINSKY is cited by Reuters on Google and women in tech

“The ginkgos, Mr. Takahashi said, expressed better than anything he could say through an interpreter the endurance of hope, the need for peace and reconciliation.” ARIEL DORFMAN in The New York Times

“HOW I LOST puts the spotlight firmly on Clinton.” A review at Morning Star.

DSA votes overwhelmingly to endorse BDS: our recommended reading on BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, AND SANCTION of Israel

This weekend the Democratic Socialists of America voted overwhelmingly to endorse the BDS movement

Here, we present our recommended reading list on the boycott, divestment from, and sanction of Israel, including selections from activists, artists, academics, journalists and fiction writers, from both within and outside of Palestine.

Save 30% on Israel-Palestine/BDS reading with coupon code BOYCOTT.

Further Reading

“Amazing tales of the 1960s ‘revolution.’” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is reviewed in American Jewish World

“Time to Hit the Reset Button on US-Korean Policy.” MEDEA BENJAMIN is interviewed by Common Dreams

“I’m aware of what drove us to do what we did.” JONATHAN LERNER is interviewed in Chronogram

“Chris Marker, the innovative, left-wing filmmaker, is given a moving and insightful tribute in STUDIO,” says Counterfire

“The single best and most interesting book that has so far appeared about the 2016 election.” The Duran on HOW I LOST

“Chris Marker, whose name was not ‘Chris Marker,’ was a play of masks and avatars, an artist who leapt, like one of his beloved cats, from medium to medium.” An excerpt from STUDIO appears in The Quietus

“It could be said of almost every one of Valley’s cartoons that it goes too far.” Haaretz on DIASPORA BOY, “a gorgeous, enormous and important collection” by ELI VALLEY

Shakespeare’s Torture Test—ARIEL DORFMAN in The New York Times

Biblioklept on the “hallucinatory modern horror stories” of DIASPORA BOY

“The long walk of the Yazidi women.” An excerpt from WITH ASH ON THEIR FACES appears in The Guardian

OURS TO HACK AND OWN “convenes dozens of thinkers and doers to reflect on how the cooperative form—which enables workers to govern their workplaces—could humanize digitally organized labor,” says the Boston Review

“Don’t stop long enough to get depressed.” MEDEA BENJAMIN is interviewed in Little Village

“A harrowing story, at times even difficult to read, but full of interest, romance, and accounts of many noble actions.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is reviewed at Peace News

“The author who put a human face on the migrant crisis in the Med.” EMMA JANE KIRBY in the Irish Examiner