Latest Posts
Anthropologists Marshalling History: the American Anthropological Association’s Vote on the Academic Boycott of Israeli Institutions
The membership of the world’s largest professional association of anthropologists, the American Anthropological Association (AAA), is now in the midst of an election that will determine whether or not the….
Simone de Beauvoir Institute’s Statement of Feminist Solidarity with the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement
On February 17, 2016, representatives of the Students, Faculty, Staff, Fellows, and Research Associates of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (SdBI) voted in unanimous support of the following resolution on….
Omar Barghouti’s lecture at Stanford University
Omar Barghouti, given travel visa by US but denied re-entry papers by Israel, is forced to give his lecture at Stanford via Skype. Nonetheless, lucid, compelling, account of BDS.
Number of Palestinian children in Israeli prisons soars
Israel has sunk to new lows this year: arresting and imprisoning its youngest female detainee, 12-year-old Dima al-Wawi, and sentencing her to nearly five months in prison. Dima was arrested….
Israel arrests leading Palestinian astrophysicist
A renowned Palestinian professor and astrophysicist, Imad al-Barghouti, was arrested by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Sunday evening. The 53-year-old professor of space physics at al-Quds University in….
The gendered aspect of Israeli checkpoints in the OPT- Position paper
Who Profits Research Center and the Coalition of Women for Peace have joined together to publish this up-to-date position paper on Palestinian women’s struggle against the Israeli control of population,….
Academic Letter of Support for the American Studies Association
We, the undersigned, voice our strong support as academics across multiple disciples for the American Studies Association, and its 2014 resolution upholding the academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. We….
Historic: NYU’s Graduate Employee Union becomes first private university labor union to support divestment from Israel
IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN WORKERS AND STUDENTS, VOTING MEMBERS OF GSOC-UAW 2110 APPROVE CALL FOR DIVESTMENT by 66.5%; 57.6% pledged to uphold the academic boycott
UMass Amherst Union of Graduate Student Workers Endorses BDS!
Members of the Graduate Employee Organization at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst vote overwhelmingly to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement!