Why do anti-war boycotts often target the USA and Israel?
Precisely because they are two of the most militarized countries in the world and both of them are using that military leverage to exert their political will on militarily weaker groups with bloody and disastrous consequences. This entails both the brutal disregard for civilian lives as well as global security and stability in general. And as if that wasn’t enough: The combined military might of China, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya, and Vietnam is far less than that of the United States and it is the United States -not any of those countries- who has engaged in recent military operations across the world (Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Serbia, Albania, Panama, Libya, Yemen, Grenada, and Iraq) not to even mention the millions of civilians killed by the US military operations in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam less than 40 years ago. Israel holds the outstanding position of having broken more UN Security Council resolutions than any other country (even to the point of obtaining
