Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog

Strategies promoting boycotts of Israel seem to reflect an integrated network working in a coordinate manner rather than a disparate group of organizations advancing individual agendas.

The organizations Occupied Palestine and Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative and Alternative Information Center, recently convened a seminar in Bethlehem, focused on advocacy strategies and using economic pressure against the Occupation. 

The seminar – which brought together experts and anti-Israel advocacy activists from all over the world – was aimed at researching, developing, and documenting domestic and international pro-Palestinian advocacy mechanisms as well as enhancing the level of coordination between various pro Palestinian organizations promoting this issue.

The Bethlehem Seminar offers a fascinating example of the process of institutionalization, and the intellectual evolution of activists working towards boycott. This is done through an attempt to create an infrastructure of learning and by assessing current strategies as a practical attempt with the purpose of improving anti-occupation advocacy capabilities.