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The BDS Movement's Anti-Normalization Guidelines Explained

http://bdsmovement.net/news/bds-movement-anti-normalization-guidelines

Publisher:  BDS
Date Written:  29/10/2022
Year Published:  2022  
Resource Type:  Article

The BDS Movement outlines their guidelines for anti-normalization, which is opposes participation in any project, initiative, or activity, local or international, that normalizes the Israeli settler-colonial regime and oppression of Palestinians.

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Thus, ensuring that joint projects and activities between Arabs and Israelis do not undermine the principle that the struggle for the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights is an Arab struggle is certainly not the same as a boycott of Israeli individuals because of their Israeli identity. Indeed, the BNC has never called for or condoned the latter. What anti-normalization principles reject are attempts to represent Israel alongside Arab countries as if it were a normal part of the region, not a settler-colonial and apartheid state. This stance emerges from the particular context of this struggle and the centuries-old intimate relationship between Palestinians and other Arab peoples of the region.

Countering normalization is all about providing ethical and political guidance to joint activities/projects between Arabs--including Palestinians--and Israeli individuals and groups, in order to protect our struggle. It ensures that such joint activities are not used to normalize oppression but rather contribute to the Palestinian-led struggle to end it.

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