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Aware that there is little chance of mobilizing decisive international support for the explicit denial of Israel’s rightful existence, BDS activists have instead focused on aspects of Israeli behavior that resonate more strongly in international political discourse: policies in or about the West Bank and Gaza, especially the use of land and other resources for Jewish civilian settlements that seem logically to contradict Israel’s rhetorical commitment to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the principle of “two states for two peoples.” By most reasonable standards of judgment, the BDS campaign strategy has been a signal failure.