Hasbara Fail: At Oxford, Students Don’t Buy Israel’s Case
No public diplomacy campaign, no sloganeering and no infographic shared online can counter Israel’s reputation as synonymous with bigotry, violence and the oppression of human rights.
Category: Columns
“We will not work with Israel’s universities” say 343 UK academics
- In an unprecedented statement university teachers say they will not do business with Israel’s university system.
- Professors and lecturers, Fellows of the Royal Society and Fellows of the British Academy say they will not visit Israel’s universities.
- Academics from across 72 different institutions ‘take the pledge’, more expected to follow as campaign grows.
- Full page advertisement in The Guardian newspaper announces launch of the Commitment.
Two establishment Jews (Harvard and Microsoft) endorse boycott of Israel and ‘single state’ in Washington Post
We’ve long predicted that liberal Zionists will start coming out for boycott because there’s no other peaceful way to end the conflict; and they will even abandon Zionism in the….
The New York Times blows it again: Why its Israel-Palestine coverage gets it so wrong
The paper of record has presented yet another one-sided account about the latest violence in Palestine
Marwan Barghouti: “There will be no peace until Israel’s occupation of Palestine ends”
We have tried to be patient, but the international community has failed us. Freedom for Palestinian people is long overdue.
Solidarity with the Palestinian popular resistance! Boycott Israel now!
Whether the current phase of Israel’s intensified repression and Palestinian popular resistance will evolve into a full-fledged intifada or not, one thing is already evident—a new generation of Palestinians is….
Palestinian Student Groups in Gaza Respond to Attacks on BDS by “NYC SJP”
Occupied Gaza, 8 October 2015 — The Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) and all the undersigned student groups, representing the entire political spectrum in Gaza,….
Technion, incubator of the student-soldier elite
A slightly modified version of this article was published on the site Orient XXI.
Israel’s army and schools work hand in hand, say teachers
Close ties means Israeli pupils are being raised to be “good soldiers” rather than good citizens
Thomas Blom Hansen: Why I Support the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
[This essay originally appeared on Anthropology News as part of an exchange on the boycott and anthropology]
By Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford U)