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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!
USACBI Statement on UC Regents Principles: Challenging Racism means Challenging Zionism
On March 24, 2016, the University of California (UC) Board of Regents adopted a set of Principles against Intolerance, after several months of discussion, amendments, lobbying by Zionist organizations, and….
Scholars in Italy debate Israel boycott despite censorship
Academics in Italy held the country’s first scholarly discussions about boycott, divestment and sanctions measures on Israel in support of Palestinian rights — in spite of attempts at censorship during….
UofC Divest Celebrates Passage of Divestment Resolution
For the past two weeks, UofC Divest organizers and our allies have worked tirelessly to mobilize and educate members of the UChicago community, in order to pass our resolution calling….