The biggest tragedy of Palestinian politics is the mistaken belief that if you bring just enough moral outrage to the world, you somehow get to justice. You don't. Politics has never worked and will never work this way.

There will be no justice without strategy and compromise.

Some seem to think if only the word 'Apartheid' was applied widely enough, somehow things magically change in Israel/Palestine. Shows oblivion to history when Israel has often been condemned by vast majority of world countries without things necessarily changing.

Strategies that ignore and boycott Israeli society are doomed to failure. Their constituency are progressive liberals in Brooklyn not people actually living in Israel/Palestine

All the appeal to the civl rights movement and anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa is done without looking at what politics they pursued. How strategic they acted. How they shifted tactics according to the situation. And how based on their people they were!

All the love for ANC boycotts ignores a) the very peripheral role that they had in ANC's overall strategy b) the broader politics of ANC, for example its consistent insistence that South Africa belonged to both White and Black peoples and all that came with that

In politics, whenever someone tells you to do something for a cause. You are entitled to ask "How will this action help the cause? How do we change people's lives?"

If the answers are not clear, that politics is broken.