BDS session for around 60 scout youth in Beit Sahour

Category: Youth Just Peace Created: 05 July 2019

On Friday the 5th of July 2019, a training session was conducted by the JAI to around 60 boys and girls, in the ages between 17 and 21, participants at the Beit Sahour Catholic Scout Group camp.

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The training, given by the JAI youth coordinator, tackled the issues of the history of boycotting Israel, the Beit Sahour boycott committee, the importance of boycotting Israel as a mean of non-violent resistance, types of boycott (economic, cultural, academic, sport ...etc.), the threat of normalization activities/programs and the importance of anti-normalization.

Several questions then asked by the participants were answered by the JAI coordinator, including initiatives they could do as teenagers and youth.

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