https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/podcasts/ezra-klein-interviews-amjad-iraqi.html
You have Fatah, which especially since the Oslo Accords and under Mahmoud Abbas’s reign has focused on leading the political struggle through diplomacy, through going to the U.N., going to the I.C.C., focusing on these international forums, all while still keeping to the provisions of the Oslo Accords, like security coordination with the Israeli military, keeping its end of the bargain by playing that game.
But what they’re finding is that even that is now being defined as diplomatic terrorism. That even the P.A.’s model is actually basically roundly dismissed, is roundly demonized, and you still have the same occupation — not even the same, it’s even an entrenching occupation. And that the P.A. has now become this convenient subcontractor to this regime in the West Bank.
And then you have, let’s say, a third model of Palestinian politics of like the boycott divestment and sanctions. Using literally the nonviolent methods that all of us were taught are the best way to go, are very moral and righteous, and that is coercion without the same kind of coercion of armed struggle. And what Palestinians are finding is that when you practice that, you’re demonized also as terrorists and demonized, even worse, as anti-Semites because you’re using a nonviolent method to try to achieve your rights and to try to weaken the structures that allow the Israeli occupation to take place.