BDS is counter-productive. We need to crack down on Israeli settlements instead

‘Like Biden, progressives in the US and across the world need to differentiate between the state of Israel within the “green line”, the internationally recognized 1967 borders, and the occupied Palestinian territories.’ Photograph: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP

The Biden administration is clearly exasperated with the Netanyahu regime in Israel. Netanyahu’s far-right stance is upending regional interests, and creating a chaotic hellscape in Gaza, without a viable solution to prevent another horrific attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens or stop the attacks coming from Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel needs viable state partners. So do the Palestinians, and so does the world.

Last week, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, announced that the United States has overturned Trump-era policies and returned to the longstanding US foreign policy that views Israeli settlements in the West Bank as “inconsistent with international law”.