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Should Israel divest itself of land it occupies in the West Bank? That\u2019s what a relatively new movement wants Israel to do. Called the BDS movement, it uses \u00a0boycotts divestment and sanctions\u00a0in an effort to get Israel to divest itself of occupied land on the West bank. Israel calls it the \u201cdelegitimization\u201d movement. \u00a0And a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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