If you look through the media serving the biggest city in Pacific NW in the land of free speech you will find no mention of its public event on BDS – except for dire warnings from the Jewish establishment. So here you can read an account which includes how Palestinians recovered from disastrous embraces (like the Irish) of the Nazis and then violence to its current strategy of peaceful popular pressure for BDS.

Since the Israelis reneged on the prisoner release agreement, the PA has adopted a new strategy: to gather ever greater legitimacy for statehood in the international arena, slowly turning Israel into a pariah nation for refusing to end the occupation. The PA itself is a vehicle that cannot get Abbas to his destination. Jonathan Cook assesses their options.

Gradually, the shields the Israeli right have surrounded themselves with are falling. When Netanyahu says Kerry supports boycotts which are immoral – while calling for stronger boycotts against Iran, when Bennett says Kerry is a mouthpiece for antisemitism, when anti-boycott Avraham Burg says the violent occupation will be over when such non-violent action becomes the Palestinian strategy, then, at last, there is change.

Not intifada, not suicide bombing, not negotiations, not rockets; none of these tactics has yielded positive results for Palestinians. Can Non-Violent Direct Action provide the traction needed?