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HISTORIC: UAW 2865, UC STUDENT-WORKER UNION, BECOMES FIRST MAJOR U.S. LABOR UNION TO SUPPORT DIVESTMENT FROM ISRAEL BY MEMBERSHIP VOTE
IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN WORKERS AND STUDENTS.
VOTING MEMBERS APPROVE CALL FOR DIVESTMENT by 65%;
52% pledged to support academic boycott
‘Our Liberation Will Not Be Complete Until Everyone’s Is’: A report from the American Anthropological Association boycott debate
In Washington, DC on Friday, the American Anthropological Association’s annual business meeting was packed with more members than any other time in recent memory – over 700. The meeting room….
Press Release: After historic win for the BDS movement, Concordia undergraduates invite all students to action
Students voted ‘Yes’ to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel’s occupation and segregation of Palestinians
Israel has no answer to BDS, Barghouti tells packed hall at Columbia
Omar Barghouti’s appearance at Columbia University on Tuesday night felt like a landmark in the Palestinian solidarity movement in the U.S. A large hall at the law school was crowded….
Israeli Oscar nominee can’t get Israeli funds for new film
Guy Davidi is famous as the co-director, along with Emad Burnat, of 5 Broken Cameras, the wrenching story of the village of Bil’in taking on the monstrous Israeli occupation. The….
We, the undersigned members of the princeton university community, stand up for human rights in the west bank and Gaza
We, the undersigned members of the Princeton University community, are deeply concerned about the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and siege of the Gaza Strip, which are responsible….
Jewish Community Support for UAW Resolution to Divest from Israel
We, the undersigned members of Jewish communities, are writing to express our support for the recent divestment resolution passed by UAW 2865’s Joint Council. As Jews, we understand from our….
Middle East Studies Association (MESA) overwhelmingly votes to allow support for BDS
At the MESA Members Meeting held Monday, November 24, in Washington, DC, 335 members cast votes on the 2014 Resolution that calls for free discussion about BDS. Of votes cast, 256 were in favor of the resolution, and 79 against. The resolution will now go to the full membership for a vote within the coming months. Below the full text of the resolution.
Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy
For this special forum, we invited eleven scholars of Africa and its diaspora to reflect on the analogy between apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel. The American Studies Association’s decision….