100% this! People who have never been to the region will never understand the complexity of the situation. And it absolutely kills me that our educational system is allowing BDS to be an actual thing. Those who support BDS can’t grasp the concept that Hamas’s (the ruling party) convent literally states that "our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious" and calls for the eventual creation of an Islamic state in Palestine, in place of Israel and the Palestinian Territories,[3] and the obliteration or dissolution of Israel.[4][5] It emphasizes the importance of jihad, stating in article 13, "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.”

And sadly they aren’t even the most extreme group in the Palestinian Territories

When one sides official government chants are death to Israel it’s really hard to envision any real peace talk.