It is 72 years since the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine, when
approximately 800,000 Gentiles were driven from their homes and ancestral lands and many thousands more were killed by the Jews.
By Kristian Davis Bailey: Palestine solidarity activism has made significant gains in the US over the last decade.A national student movement has been built, cross-movement solidarity has been reinvigorated and a series of victories have been achieved in the push for boycott, divestment and sanctions. These victories have ranged from churches and universities supporting BDS measures to the blocking of Israeli cargo ships.
For a moment it felt like the Palestine solidarity movement was on the offensive.
But Zionist groups and officials fought back through anonymous websites that dox activists, the proliferation of anti-BDS laws and, most recently, Donald Trump’s executive order.