Haidar Eid (a member of The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and Al-Shabaka (The Palestinian Policy Network) Policy Adviser, and the author of “Worlding Postmodernism: Interpretive Possibilities of Critical Theory”) (2016): “Why boycott Apartheid Israel… I live in Gaza which has been under a hermetic Israeli siege for ten years. We have shortages of everything from electricity and water, to medicines and chocolate. Israel does not allow books and cement into Gaza, so we cannot nourish the brains of our children, nor can we build homes for them. Israel has been allowed to dehumanize and dispossess Palestinians for decades with impunity. US and international support have given Israel free rein to separate Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and 1948 and increase the number of Palestinian refugees whenever it felt like. But with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, we’re fighting back” (Haidar Eid, “Why boycott Apartheid Israel: a response top a liberal friend”, Palestinian Chronicle, 21 October 2016: http://www.palestinechronicle.com/boycott-apartheid-israel-response-liberal-friend/ ).