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This is nonviolent civil disobedience to protect the financial support of an ongoing genocide. Acting like this isn't a valid form of protest or that the BDS movement have "no idea what's involved" when putting pressure on corporations and institutions to Divest is ridiculous.
These kind of protests do put pressure and bring the issue to the forefront of the local and state administrative bodies. The BDS movement was successful in the divestment of Apartheid South Africa, this isn't too different
MLK protested where the offenses were actually happening. That's why they were effective.
The offenses are actually happening in the US, too. That's where the voters voting for genocide enablers are located, that are sending all the bombs to Gaza to blow up schools and hospitals.
Yeah dude, that's why the anti-apartheid protests and BDS movement in the United States were so unsuccessful and not effective when it came to South Africa