Corvallis City Council Steps Toward Israeli Divestment, BDS - The Corvallis Advocate

Corvallis City Council Steps Toward Israeli Divestment, BDS - The Corvallis Advocate

The BDS movement didn’t look like it was on Monday’s Corvallis City Council agenda, but that didn’t stop the Council from deciding to move forward on it. But before we get into that, let’s look at BDS, or the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement; and what it is and some different views of it. The movement explains itself as Palestinian led and asserts that Israel is a colonizing apartheid state that is committing genocide. The movement’s o…