<<boycotts are tricky since it totally depends on the situation for it`s effectiveness.
<<ex. disney got boycotted and nobody noticed. exxon got boycotted and private owners got one hurt by it.>>
I agree it's tricky. I think it will be more effective in Europe than in North America and in certain European countries more than others. The general public has to be educated as to the situation in the West Bank and Gaza and the ongoing ethnic cleansing there, the ever-growing settlements and continuing dispossession of the native Palestinians to accommodate them, the destruction of homes, crops, orchards, and ultimately (as we've seen in the Gaza invasion of two years ago, the blockade, and the brutal attack on the blockade runners) of human life itself. There has to be a will to act, there has to be a belief that the action can be effective (as it was in South Africa) and there has to be the generation of a corps of leaders who will keep those fires burning. I think practically speaking those leaders will have to come from the young Arab Muslim populations of the major European cities.
It's a huge challenge, no doubt about it, but it's the only alternative (short of the armed struggle itself) to the ongoing occupation of the West Bank (now in its 4th decade) and the continuing arrests, imprisonment, torture and murder of all Palestinians who resist the ethnic cleansing and the theft of their lands.
