Supporting BDS is a way to honour the Palestinian struggle
NOVANEWS
Judith Butler
The BDS committee was formed in 2005 and has the support of more than 170 organisations in Palestine. (AFP)
The University of Cape Town has the chance to take a position in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and I join academics around the world in hoping that the ethically obligatory and politically progressive decision will be made to express support and to bind the university to its principles.
That should not be very difficult, since BDS draws on longstanding traditions, some of which were importantly developed in the context of the struggle against apartheid, for refusing modes of co-operation and economic consumption that seek to normalise relations with a state and its institutions structured on a model of settler colonia...