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Stanford must divest from the occupation of Palestine
This summer on TV and computer screens across America, Operation Protective Edge brought the realities of the Israeli occupation of Palestine to the mainstream consciousness once again. The facts of….
Video: French activists seize stage at Israel-backed film festival
Dozens of activists disrupted an Israeli-government backed film screening at the Cinemed 2014 festival in Montpellier, southern France, on Sunday, forcing the showing to be abandoned. As the video shows,….
Organised Hypocrisy on a Monumental Scale
Late last year I made my first visit to the West Bank. I’d never before been anywhere in what was once known as the Levant, between Anatolia and Egypt, though….
Why the Salaita case matters, outside the United States US Politics
When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign revealed it was firing Professor Steven Salaita, within days more than 17,000 scholars signed a protest document, citing the infringement of Salaita’s free….
University of Exeter students vote to boycott Israeli settlement products in a landslide
Students at the University of Exeter have voted overwhelmingly in support of a boycott of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements. The referendum, which garnered 86% approval, generated the largest….
Ya’alon bans Palestinians from Israeli-run bus lines in West Bank, following settler pressure
Settlers have tried on multiple occasions to prevent Palestinian workers from commuting on these buses, and have released a video calling for them to be banned.
Samra Popular School threatened with demolition
The Israeli occupation forces have once again attacked the right of Palestinian children to education, by threatening to demolish Samra school. Military jeeps entered the small community of Samra in….
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.]