The anti-apartheid campaign’s secondary effect persuaded insiders the regime was untenable

Evidence

But the secondary impact of BDS may be – as the anti-apartheid campaign was for many South Africans – a means to persuade Israelis themselves of the untenability over the long term of maintaining a settler-colonial relation to Palestine and the wider region. The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem’s recent acknowledgment of the apartheid nature of the Israeli state (Holmes 2021) represents an important opening in that direction. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2143

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An entrenched African proletariat and ANC-CP alliance enabled apartheid’s defeat. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 54; External pressure can invite colonialists to exit the settler mentality they inhabit — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2143

Broader Connections

• An entrenched African proletariat and ANC-CP alliance enabled apartheid’s defeat. #expands (0.82) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 54