‘I thought I was a free man’: the engineer fighting Texas’s ban on boycotting Israel
Rasmy Hassouna, a Palestinian American, is suing the state over a provision that bans him or his company from protesting Israel or its products
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Joint Letter Urging EU Targeted Sanctions Against NSO Group
Dear EU High Representative Borrell and Foreign Ministers of the EU member states, We are writing following credible revelations that Israeli NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware was used to hack the….
Canadian Association of University Teachers Says No to Academic Censorship on Palestine
November 26, 2021 – Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) and the Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism, Racism, Colonialism & Censorship in Canada (ARC) applaud the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)….
Leading writers support Sally Rooney decision to refuse publication in Israel
Seventy prominent writers, poets and playwrights from several continents, have signed a letter endorsing Sally Rooney’s decision to turn down an offer with an Israel publishing house, describing it as….
Statement of Solidarity with LSE Students
We, the undersigned, are a collective of past and present sabbatical officers, student leaders, activists and academics coming together to express our complete, continued, and unapologetic solidarity with London School….
N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change Statement of Commitment to the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions Movement
The N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change (“RLSC”) expresses our firm commitment to the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement and our solidarity with Palestinians collectively struggling towards liberation. BDS….
The banning of human rights defenders: Israel and South Africa compared
Even the apartheid regime in South Africa never outlawed human rights defenders in the manner that Israel just did when it declared six Palestinian organizations to be ‘terrorist organizations.’
Open Letter to Defend Democracy and the Rights of Palestinian Civil Society
On October 19, 2021, six prominent Palestinian organizations were labeled as so-called “terrorist organizations” by the Israeli Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz. This designation criminalizes the work of these organizations….
What Apartheid Means for Israel
A growing consensus has formed around the term—not as a rhetorical comparison to South Africa, but describing a system of domination built on the partition of Palestine.
In Germany, universities are leading the charge against Palestine solidarity
Conservatism and historical guilt are shrinking the space for Palestine activism in Germany — and campuses are among the fiercest battlegrounds of all.