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.
Category: Columns
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….
Belgian academics call for an academic boycott of Israel
The constitution of an extremist right-wing government makes it abundantly clear: there is no hope for change for the better from within Israel. More than ever the occupation and colonization….
Academic Freedom, Ethics, and Responsibility: The Silencing and Censoring of Palestine in Western Liberal Academia
A few months ago a story was published on the Yedioth Hakkibutz magazine. The first page of the magazine headlined: “We have expelled, bombed, and killed” and recalled an interview….
To critics of the academic boycott of Israel: What about “academic freedom” for the children of Gaza?
Given what we now know, it’s harder to ignore the destruction of Palestinian schools and other infrastructures
Is being a critic of Israeli state policies the same as being an anti-Semite?
Signing on to the State Department’s definition of the term could mean denying academic freedom and free speech
Hundreds of academics call on State Dept to revise its definition of anti-Semitism, respect criticism of Israel as protected speech
The following press release was issued by Jewish Voice for Peace:
The Nakba: A crime watched, ignored and remembered
The steadfastness of the Palestinians is like the age-old olive trees in Palestine that succeed in resurfacing between the European pines
Night of horror at Ben Gurion airport for two French music students
We are two students, both studying musicology at the Université Paris 8 and in the CRR 93 at Aubervilliers and the CRD at Gennevilliers [translator’s note: all located in the….