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PACBI Guidelines for the International Cultural Boycott of Israel (Revised July 2014)
Being that part of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) tasked with overseeing the academic and cultural boycott aspects of BDS, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott….
On the BDS Blacklist
This is a slightly revised version of comments presented as part of the event “Palestine Solidarity: A Faculty Roundtable and Student Q & A,” held at the CUNY Graduate Center on 17 October. The discussion was organized by [a group of students involved with a resolution currently before the Doctoral Student Council at the Graduate Center, endorsing the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. I want to dedicate my remarks to these courageous students, who are engaged in organizing work that is at best thankless and at worst dangerous, given the current climate of hostility in the US academy—and, beyond that, to all those who struggle for justice in Palestine.]
Petition to the American Historical Association RE: Gaza, Islamic University’s Oral History Center
As members of the American Historical Association, we feel an urgent need to take a principled stand in response to the attack on Gaza, calling on like-minded colleagues to join….
Artists and Intellectuals Including Junot Díaz, Chuck D, and Boots Riley Call for Boycott and Divestment from Israel
Leading U.S. intellectuals, writers, and hip hop artists have recently added their voices in support of the Palestinian civil society call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel in….
Keep Rani Burnat Rolling
Replace Rani Burnat’s wheelchairs and camera broken by Israeli soldiers in Bil’in Village, West Bank
The Oral History Association condemns Israeli violence against Palestinian researchers and their archival and oral history collections
The Oral History Association passed a resolution during its annual meeting in October 2014, condemning Israeli violence against Palestinian researchers and their archival and oral history collections.
Academics say No to the partnership between the Ecole Polytechnique and Technion
A petition has gathered more than 600 signatures — mainly of French academics — protesting an official agreement between the Ecole Polytechnique and Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology.
How ‘Open Hillel’ created a new community by challenging the Jewish establishment
Two years ago, Harvard’s Hillel chapter clamped down on dissent. The Hillel-affiliated Progressive Jewish Alliance planned an event with the Palestine Solidarity Committee to bring two anti-occupation Jews to America’s….
Cambridge academics: we have a ‘responsibility’ to ‘speak out’ against Israel
More than 50 academics from the University of Cambridge have condemned the assault on Gaza, calling for an end to violence and the ‘discriminatory and dehumanising treatment of Palestinian citizens’…..