Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu Calls For Global Boycott Of Israel, Urges Israelis And Palestinians To Look Beyond Their Leaders For A Sustainable Solution

A child next to a picture of Nelson Mandela at a pro-Palestinian rally in Cape Town

My plea to the people of Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine (Haaretz, Aug 14, 2014):

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in an exclusive article for Haaretz, calls for a global boycott of Israel and urges Israelis and Palestinians to look beyond their leaders for a sustainable solution to the crisis in the Holy Land.

By Desmond Tutu

The past weeks have witnessed unprecedented action by members of civil society across the world against the injustice of Israel’s disproportionately brutal response to the firing of missiles from Palestine.

If you add together all the people who gathered over the past weekend to demand justice in Israel and Palestine – in Cape Town, Washington, D.C., New York, New Delhi, London, Dublin and Sydney, and all the other cities – this was arguably the largest active outcry by citizens around a single cause ever in the history of the world.

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