Over 70 American Intellectuals: Boycott «Israeli» Settlements
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Over 70 American intellectuals and academics have published an open letter calling for a targeted boycott of all "Israeli" settlements in the West Bank, as well as of goods and services from the settlements.
The signatories of the letter, which was published in the New York Review of Books, included academics Bernard Avishai, Michael Walzer, Peter Brooks and Deborah Dash Moore, author and journalist Adam Hochschild and Haaretz columnist Peter Beinart.
The writers of the letter wrote believe that the settlements and all their produce should be boycotted.
The called on the United States government to "exclude settlements from trade benefits accorded to "Israeli" enterprises, and to strip all such "Israeli" entities in the West Bank from the tax exemptions that the Internal Revenue Service currently grants to American nonprofit tax-exempt organizations."
"It is our hope that targeted boycotts and changes in American policy, limited to the "Israeli" settlements in the Occupied Territories, will encourage all parties to negotiate a "two-state" solution to this long-standing conflict," the letter stated.
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