But now Beinart is an ex-Zionist and he's calling for the Palestinian right of return. This is how change happens. Academics are so full of themselves; back seat drivers, chattering because they want to think they lead.
I think you miss the point of politics. The point is to win. "'You know, you never beat us on the battlefield,' I told my North Vietnamese counterpart during negotiations in Hanoi a week before the fall of Saigon. He pondered that remark a moment and then replied, 'That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.'" https://www.democracynow.org/2021/5/17/israeli_human_rights_group_btselem_blasts
Politics: "Palestinians are staging the first general strike across all of historic Palestine since 1936" https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/live-blog-palestinians-stage-general-strike-across-historic-palestine/
BDS. The S is for "sanctions"
But Israel is done. 10 years ago Beinart was honest enough to admit he'd sacrificed his liberalism for the Jewish state. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/goldblog-vs-peter-beinart-part-ii/56934/
Sanders can barely admit his admit his own hypocrisy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE7Kbrxt5Jc
But now Beinart is an ex-Zionist and he's calling for the Palestinian right of return. This is how change happens. Academics are so full of themselves; back seat drivers, chattering because they want to think they lead.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/opinion/israel-palestinian-refugees-right-of-return.html
I think you missed the distinction between broad and targeted sanctions. Not sure what the attack on academics has to do with this.
I think you miss the point of politics. The point is to win. "'You know, you never beat us on the battlefield,' I told my North Vietnamese counterpart during negotiations in Hanoi a week before the fall of Saigon. He pondered that remark a moment and then replied, 'That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.'" https://www.democracynow.org/2021/5/17/israeli_human_rights_group_btselem_blasts