Scientists and BDS, in France and in the US
[This article has been published by Politics/Letters in February].
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The murky relations between the Hebrew University and its neighboring Palestinian village
A new Hebrew University building offers a revealing look at both the hardscrabble nature of an adjacent East Jerusalem village and the striking contrast between the two sites.
Israeli government threats against Palestinian human rights defenders
[AURDIP’s note : Yisrael Katz, Israeli Minister of intelligence, advocated the “civil elimination” of the leaders of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement (BDS), and no western government protested. Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the BDS movement, reacts to the escalating Israeli threats.]
Open Letter to the German government and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Do not collaborate in Israel’s Cultural Crimes in regards to the Looted Palestinian Dead Sea Scrolls and respect international law
Occupied Jerusalem, March 26, 2016–The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calls on the German government and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities to….
USACBI statement of solidarity with faculty and students under attack at CUNY
On March 22nd, Distinguished Professor Sarah Schulman was summoned to testify before a Commission on Anti-Semitism at the City University of New York (CUNY). The Commission was hastily set up….
Supporting the Palestinian Right to Education : An Appeal to Oral Historians to Boycott the December 2016 Hebrew University Oral History Conference
Over the past several months, Israeli military forces entered Palestinian universities, fired live ammunition, and tear gassed and injured students. At Palestine Technical University- Kadoorie University in Tulkarem in the….
Rectify the misrepresentation of BDS
Dear Professor Fortier, We feel compelled to express concerns regarding the wording of and an important omission from the statement you released after the recent General Assembly (GA) vote for….
Statement in solidarity with Professor Bill Mullen at Purdue University
We, the undersigned, are deeply disturbed by the attempts to smear those advocating for Palestinians’ rights to racial equality and freedom from occupation with false charges of anti-Semitism. Professor Bill….
Israel’s legal warfare on BDS fosters repression and McCarthyism across the world
Occupied Palestine, 17 March 2016 — The global movement supporting the Palestinian people’s right to freedom, justice and equality has taken impressive steps into the political mainstream in recent years…..
Declaration of Faculty and Librarians in Support of the GSU Campaign for Divestment from the Israeli Occupation
We, the undersigned faculty and librarians at the University of Toronto, declare our support for the Graduate Student Union’s petition for the University of Toronto to divest its holdings in….