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Whose Cause!? The BDS Controversy!

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BDS stands for Boycott and Disinvestment Sanctions and it is aimed primary to Israel, this movement is intended to pressure Israel economically, financially and Culturally, By no means was created with the intention to undermined Israel Legal Status as a Official Recognized State but as the movement have grown and thousands of Organizations and Universities across the Globe are being more and more involved in the BDS Movement, the perception of Israel it is changing rapidly and many Important Academy Figures that have been following the development of the Conflict over the years are getting to the conclusion that Israel it is losing its legal Status in the World. In 2005 the Civil Society of Palestine called the attention of the world when they founded a movement that it is known globally simply as BDS and every sector of the population it is taking part of in little or grand scale. "Boycott - basically is a tool of the weak, who individually are weak but collectively can have some strength against overweening power. The first use of the word [originated] with tenant farmers in Ireland against their land agent. Famous cases are the Montgomery Bus boycott and, more recently, the sporting boycott and other boycotts against South Africa. There are differences between all these boycotts, and I would stress that by taking the archetypal case of that of the tenant farmers who resisted the land agent Charles Boycott, who gave his name to the whole process, in the 1880s in Ireland. Boycott was the land agent for an absentee English noble. And what they did, when he became too domineering, is they denied him labour to save the harvest, they put him into isolation -refused to talk to him under any circumstances, the shops wouldn't serve him, the workers wouldn't go and look after his house for him, and the person wouldn't deliver him letters. And in reasonably short order, by the end of the year Boycott had been forced out and returned to England.

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