A prominent pro-Palestinian campaigner has admitted plainly that purpose of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement is to hasten the end of a Jewish state in the Middle East and not to find a route to a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
Supporters of a cultural or academic boycott have in the past claimed that the tactic is a way to push for an end to the occupation.
Writing for the Mondoweiss website, Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian-American writer who was born in the Gaza Strip, said: "Ok fine. So BDS does mean the end of the Jewish state."
Mr Moor, who has previously outlined his support of an academic boycott of Israel, made the comment in a piece questioning whether BDS activists should work with liberal Zionists, a group he dismissed as a contradiction in terms.