PACBI mourns the loss of John Berger
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) mourns the loss of the venerable author and world-renowned art critic John Berger whose commitment to justice was….
Category: Columns
The challenges of being a Palestinian doctor in the ‘Jewish state’
Let me start with a reference and ask the reader to check it out before delving into the delicate matter at hand. How did I miss this article till now,….
Graduate Students MLA members on the MLA Academic Boycott Resolution
We are gearing up for the MLA 2017 Convention in Philadelphia and the debate on the resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Graduate student MLA members who support the boycott of Israeli academic institutions wrote the following message.
Richard Falk: ‘History is on the side of the Palestinians’
The former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine talks about his career, his commitment to the Palestinian cause and his hopes for the future
German Bank for Social Economy Closes Account of Jewish Peace Group
Our organization, the “Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East” (JS) was founded thirteen years ago as the German Section of the “European Jews for a Just….
Palestine: The End of the Bedouins?
One way to tell the story of the Middle East as a whole is to describe the endemic struggle between peripatetic nomads and settled peasant farmers—a struggle attested already in….
Groundbreaking statement by 200 European Legal Scholars Upholds the Right to BDS for Palestinian Rights
Palestinians welcome statement as “a major blow to Israel’s repressive legal war” on the BDS movement:
- Renowned legal scholars and lawyers from 15 European countries consider BDS as “a lawful exercise of freedom of expression”
- Palestinian BDS human rights defenders welcome the statement as a “defining moment” in asserting their right to boycott Israel to realize Palestinian rights
BDS impact round up for 2016
Israel’s war of repression has failed to stop the continued growth of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights
Prominent Liberal Intellectuals Speak Out For The First Time For A Selective Boycott Of Israel — But Is It Enough?
The New York Review of Books is not known as a venue for the venting of debates on Israel-Palestine, but that is exactly what has happened. Recently, two statements were….
BDS and the shattering of liberal Zionist taboos
“We welcome the statement’s shattering of the taboo against boycotting Israeli entities that are complicit in—at least selective—violations of Palestinian human rights”, wrote Angela Y. Davis, Chandler Davis, Richard A…..