What about Palestinian academic freedom?
The point of this article is to support the call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions and projects funded by the Israeli state until Palestinian academic freedom is respected….
Category: Columns
A traffic jam in the middle of the desert
The rendezvous was scheduled for 11:30 am, outside the Arlozorov Street Railway Station in Tel Aviv. I arrived at 11:35. “Three buses have already been filled, but don’t worry –….
A win for activists in University of California’s anti-Semitism debate
Adopting the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism has been tabled in favor of discussion of “tolerance”
The BDS Movement at 10: An interview with Omar Barghouti
Mondoweiss co-editors Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss talk with Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the BDS movement Omar Barghouti on the tenth anniversary of the Palestinian call for….
One year since Israel’s Gaza massacre and ten years since the launch of the BDS movement: building the boycott is more important than ever
One year ago today, Israel launched a brutal military attack on the Palestinian population of the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed, including 551 children,….
Archaeology and the BDS/boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: some personal fragmentary reflections
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present the latest in a series of essays reflecting on the decision to support the boycott until Israeli higher education ends its complicity in the violation of Palestinian rights (including academic rights).
This piece by Israel-Palestine archaeologist Brian Boyd->http://anthropology.columbia.edu/people/profile/361] joins earlier statements on Savage Minds by [Talal Asad, Mick Taussig, J. Lorand Matory, and Rosemary Sayigh.
Interview: The man behind the BDS movement
As the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement grows, its co-founder, Omar Barghouti, has become a target for Israeli demonization. +972’s Rami Younis sits down with Barghouti for a rare discussion about BDS’s goals, its recent successes, and increasingly frequent accusations that the boycott movement constitutes anti-Semitism.
BDS finds weak point in Israel’s politics of fear
Government efforts to fight ‘Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions’ are bolstering the movement and creating the political debate the campaign seeks to achieve.
The Cultural Boycott: Israel vs. South Africa
Editor’s note: The article was written by Omar Barghouti, who is a founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). PACBI is a member of the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Campaign National Committee (BNC). This article is the fourth in a continuing series exploring BDS and its connection to the art world.
Sheldon Adelson’s “secret” desert conference to plot against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement
If you did not know that this weekend some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world will meet in the Las Vegas desert to plot a massive….