Incoming
members of Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have both come out
in favor of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement —
the first House members to ever do so. Critics, however, suggest that
BDS is anti-Semitic and undermines a two-state solution in the Middle
East. Others say supporters of BDS aren't consistent in their
criticism of human rights and unfairly focus on the actions of
Israel. In his latest video essay, The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan
examines — and debunks — some of the myths and controversies
surrounding the BDS movement.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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