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Boycotting Israeli Academic Institutions - Advice for Anthropologists
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is a group of concerned scholars, part of the growing global movement calling for Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against the state….
The BDS Movement at 10: An interview with Omar Barghouti
Mondoweiss co-editors Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss talk with Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the BDS movement Omar Barghouti on the tenth anniversary of the Palestinian call for….
One year since Israel’s Gaza massacre and ten years since the launch of the BDS movement: building the boycott is more important than ever
One year ago today, Israel launched a brutal military attack on the Palestinian population of the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed, including 551 children,….
Ghassan Kanafani – “ The land of the sad oranges”
Ghassan Kanafani was born in Akka Palestine in 1936 and died, as a result of an Israeli bomb planted in his car in Beirut on 8th July 1972. His Danish….
Belgium : A call for a cultural boycott of Israel
Dear colleague, In writing you this letter we are urging you to join the BACBI campaign (Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) for a boycott action against the state….
Palestinian Universities under Occupation
This Report was prepared by a delegation of 8 academics from 5 European countries representing the European Platform for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (EPACBI) who visited seven Palestinian universities and academies in April 2015. The delegation is grateful to the many faculty members and administrators of those institutions who made the visit possible.
Archaeology and the BDS/boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: some personal fragmentary reflections
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present the latest in a series of essays reflecting on the decision to support the boycott until Israeli higher education ends its complicity in the violation of Palestinian rights (including academic rights).
This piece by Israel-Palestine archaeologist Brian Boyd->http://anthropology.columbia.edu/people/profile/361] joins earlier statements on Savage Minds by [Talal Asad, Mick Taussig, J. Lorand Matory, and Rosemary Sayigh.
Tel Aviv University academics debate BDS for the first time
On June 8th, 2015 Tel Aviv University academics held a first ever discussion on BDS. The following is an address given by Dr. Hilla Dayan at the conference: I would….
Israel once again commits an act of state piracy in the Mediterranean
At 02:06AM today (Gaza time) the “Marianne” contacted Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and informed us that three boats of the Israeli navy had surrounded her in international waters, while sailing….