As the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement grows, its co-founder, Omar Barghouti, has become a target for Israeli demonization. +972's Rami Younis sits down with Barghouti for a rare discussion about BDS's goals, its recent successes, and increasingly frequent accusations that the boycott movement constitutes anti-Semitism. Omar Barghouti is one of the most infamous names in pro-Israel and Israeli government circles at the moment. Officials have portrayed this Palestinian human (…)

After the Irish author declined an Israeli deal for a recent novel, we saw a chance to help strengthen the boycott movement — and clarify its aims. It was five years ago that the bestselling Irish author Sally Rooney first declared her support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. At the time, Rooney had already published Hebrew translations of two of her novels with the Israeli publishing house Modan, but refused to translate a third. A wave of reports (…)

ROAPE interviews legendary Minneapolis-based African American socialist August Nimtz. In the conversation, Nimtz shares how his travels to Tanzania in the 1970s played a crucial role in his intellectual journey from Pan-African nationalism to radical socialism, and offers his views on Cuba today, Black Lives Matter, and the anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis Tell me about yourself, your upbringing and how you became radicalised. I was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, which has a (…)