What BDS is and what it wants

The demands, the leaders' stated goals, and the tactics.

• BDS is a campaign to isolate Israel, not a rights standard
  BDS, short for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, is an organized campaign that began with a call issued on 9 July 2005 and is coordinated by the Palestinian BDS National Committee. It seeks to exclude Israel from trade, universities, culture and sport until three cumulative demands are met, two of which concern Israel inside its 1948 borders, and it rejects boycotts limited to settlements. Canada's House of Commons rejected the campaign by 229 votes to 51 on 22 February 2016.
• In substance, BDS seeks one state in place of the Jewish state
  BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) says it is rights-based and takes no position on one state or two, but its program points to one outcome. The 2005 call demands refugee return to homes and properties inside Israel, PACBI's 31 March 2012 paper holds the Israeli state itself to be the root cause, co-founder Omar Barghouti is recorded opposing a Jewish state in any form, and the Canadian BDS Coalition's Basis of Unity, adopted by its Toronto member groups, advocates a secular democratic State of Palestine.
• A settlement boycott is narrower than BDS but not a peace strategy
  A boycott of settlements is not the same as BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), and BDS says so itself: PACBI's position paper of 31 March 2012 rejects settlement-only boycotts because the movement holds the Israeli state, not the settlements, to be the root cause. A settlement boycott is narrower, and the Palestinian Authority endorsed one in December 2013 while rejecting a boycott of Israel, but it still targets Jews and Israeli businesses by location and cost about 500 Palestinian workers their jobs when SodaStream left Mishor Adumim in 2015.
• Glossary
  Definitions of the terms used across StopBDSinToronto.ca, from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement's own vocabulary to the Canadian legal and campus terms that recur in the Toronto record. Each definition stands on its own and cites the document it rests on.