Recent statements by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas—that the Palestinian leadership does not support the boycott of Israel, but does back the boycott of settlements—threatened to transform the boycott from its self-image as the principled projection of native Palestinian policy to the bastard foreign child of freelance troublemakers, says Matthew Kalman.
Israeli left-wing activists sign a petition against the suggested "boycott law", in front of the Justice Court in Tel Aviv on July 12, 2011, after the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) passed a law penalizing persons or organizations that boycott Israel or the
