Abstract
Frustration over right-wing Israeli policies on Palestine has held back the advance of EU–Israel relations, but has not yet led to EU-wide pressure.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 91-112 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Survival |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 4 Jul 2018 |
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These moves have been interpreted in Israel, especially by right-wing parties, as legitimising a consumer boycott of settlements, and as the thin end of the wedge of a popular and government-sanctioned boycott of Israel in its entirety. Israel’s sensitivity has been heightened by the growing profile of a ‘Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions’ (BDS) movement, which aims to generate the kind of pressure put on South Africa in the 1980s. This movement – driven by activists within trade unions, far-left parties, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and Islamist groups – has not gained the support of a critical mass of European citizens, but it has found a receptive audience among the broader liberal left and European Muslim constituencies.
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