Boycotts helped end segregation in the American South. Hopefully they can achieve similar results for Palestinians. Read more about Jim Crow in Palestine: parallels between US and Israeli racism 

My wife Linda and I went back to Beirut, Lebanon recently to visit the American Community School that I graduated from in the 1950s. One of the counselors at the school, an American named David Bakis, has started a project to bring some cheer into the lives of children in the Palestinian refugee camps near Beirut. No easy task. Curtis Bell writes from the United States. Read more about The children of Shatila: no future and no past