Explaining Non-Diasporic Mobilizations for Distant Causes

Abstract While the Palestinian struggle has received widespread support from non-Palestinian activists across North America and Europe, Kurdish in Turkey, which is similar to cause important ways, not such extensive non-Kurdish activists. Existing explanations do fully account for this difference. I argue that variation non-diasporic part a product of impact differences between diasporas West have had on how each group sought mobilize grassroots their cause. The small size internal divisions diaspora incentivized focus recruiting non-Palestinians, creating conditions mobilization. larger greater degree organization primarily mobilizing ethnic kin less non-Kurds, resulting relatively little support.