Boycott movement is an honourable struggle for justice and human rights

It is telling that on these letters pages Israel’s advocates regularly mirror and thereby demonstrate exactly what is wrong with the actions of that state.

The constant dismissal of international law, of human rights reports, of the plight of the nearly 2,000,000 Palestinians living under siege in Gaza and the thousands of deaths caused by the occupying army, represent what Israel does in its efforts to single itself out for exceptional status as a serial human rights abuser acting with impunity and without sanction.

In his letter (Irish Examiner, April 27) Kevin McCarthy claims that I use “coded BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] language designed to portray Israelis as an inhumane collective that commits indiscriminate atrocities” — this could not be further from the truth.