Fearing BDS, Israel is turning to domestic weapons production. That may backfire.

“Resistance to Trump is unifying us,” political economist and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) activist Shir Hever recently told Truthout. “And because BDS is global and intersectional, the potential for a large tent campaign has never been better or stronger than it is now.”

For more than two decades, Hever’s scholarly interests and professional and political commitments have been bound up with the pursuit of justice for Palestinians in Palestine. Since 2011, Hever — an Israeli-born Jew — has been working in Berlin, entrusted by the Palestinian BDS movement with the role of worldwide coordinator of the military embargo, a campaign that’s been thrust into a renewed and urgent relevance since October 7, 2023.

Read the Q & A at TRUTHOUT