Honorary Advisory Board Member, Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town

Watch Desmond Tutu discussing the Israeli apartheid on Democracy Now!

Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University

Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Lawrence Davidson, Professor of History, West Chester University

Read Lawrence Davidson’s “Why The Academic Boycott Is Necessary” 

Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz (emerita)

See Angela Davis’ book, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Chandler Davis, University of Toronto (emeritus)

Ashley Dawson, Graduate Center, City University of New York/Staten Island College, CUNY

Richard Falk, Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara; Former UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine, 2008-2014

Bill Fletcher, Jr., Executive Editor, The Black Commentator and immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum

Watch Bill Fletcher on Al Jazeera discussing the BDS campaign

Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report

Read Glen Ford’s “Boycott and Disinvest in Israel, in Solidarity and Self-Defense”

Mark Gonzales, Educator, Poet, Human Writes Project

Marilyn Hacker, poet

Edward S. Herman (1925-2017), Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Annemarie Jacir, Filmmaker, Philistine Films

Read Annemarie Jacir on the Cultural Boycott of Israel

Remi Kanazi, poet, writer, editor

Watch Remi Kanazi perform his poetry on GRIT TV

Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of History, University of Southern California

David Lloyd, University of California, Riverside

Read David Lloyd’s “Protest takes nonviolent approach toward preserving intellectual freedom in Israel”

Sunaina Maira, University of California, Davis

Read Sunaina Maira’s book, Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine, at University of California Press

Adam Miyashiro, Stockton University

Ilan Pappé, Chair in the Department of History, the University of Exeter and co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies.

Read Ilan Pappé’s “Just Academic”

James Petras, Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York

Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College

Julie Rak, University of Alberta

Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist, activist (1929-2012)

Read Adrienne Rich’s “Why Support the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel?”

Steven Salaita, Independent Scholar

Michel Shehadeh, Executive Director, Arab Film Festival

Lisa Taraki, Associate Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University, Palestine and a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

Read Lisa Taraki’s “Critics of the AAUP Report”

Cornel West, Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary

Dave Zirin, Writer, EdgeofSports