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Neferti Tadiar on USACBI Delegation: Why the Question of Palestine is a Feminist Concern
Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Professor and Chair of Women”s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, is one of the scholars – alongside
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Bill Mullen on USACBI delegation: Eyewitness to Israel’s ethnic cleansing
Purdue University professor Bill Mullen traveled to Palestine with a delegation of academics organized by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel to find out about the obstacles facing Palestinian students and educators. Published first at Socialist Worker. AT 4:45 a.m. on the morning of August 2, 2009, the family of Miraym Al-Ghawi […]
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Walking through Shatila – Malini Johar Schueller
Malini Johar Schueller, Professor of English at the University of Florida, published the following piece at Counterpunch, calling for academic boycott and discussing the Palestinian right of return following her experience on a delegation to Shatila refugee camp. Far from the opulent Golden Tulip hotel where I was staying in Beirut and a world away […]
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Our Eyes Witnessed: On People of Color in the United States and The Palestinian BDS Movement
Authors: Darnell L. Moore & Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz – published at NewBlackMan Colorlines recently featured a story entitled “The Israel Lobby Finds a New Face: Black College Students,” which highlighted the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee“s (AIPAC) recruitment of young black and brown college students to support their Zionist agenda. According to AIPAC”s website, they recruit “[o]n […]
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USACBI’s David Klein on Law and Disorder
David Klein of USACBI appeared on Law and Disorder Radio on January 9, 2012. The full radio show can be livestreamed or downloaded at this link. Law and Disorder is co-hosted by Michael Ratner, Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith, and is a weekly independent radio show based at WBAI 99.5 in New York and […]
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Open Letter to Cornell University: Don’t Collaborate with Apartheid
The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is gravely concerned about Cornell University’s plans to collaborate with Israel’s Technion Israel Institute of Technology to build a joint campus on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, including the use of $100 million in public funds.[1] Israeli academic institutions provide the technological foundation for […]
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USACBI Bulletin No. 2 Now Available!
The new issue of USACBI’s Bulletin is now available for download. Includes an editors’ note, news on study abroad campaigns, academic and cultural boycott, and more: December 26, 2011 – Issue No. 2 of the USACBI Bulletin Download in: HTML | PDF Download prior issue: HTML | PDF
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Omar Barghouti: West Coast Itinerary, January 2012
Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher, commentator and human rights activist committed to upholding international law and universal human rights. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. He holds a bachelor”s and master”s degrees […]
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Action Alert: National Day of Action for Academic and Cultural Boycott, March 30, 2012
USACBI is calling for a National Academic and Cultural Boycott Day on March 30, 2012, which is Land Day, the Global BDS Day of Solidarity with Palestine. On this day, which commemorates the murder of Palestinians inside Israel as they fought against the theft of their land in 1976 and has become an ongoing day […]
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Inside Higher Ed covers CSU Study Abroad Campaign
The following article was published at Inside Higher Ed on December 5, 2011, and quotes USACBI Organizing Committee members David Klein and Abla Harara. If you are CSU faculty or staff member, student, or alumnus, you can sign on to the letter here: http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/studyabroad.html Politicization of Study Abroad December 5, 2011 – 3:00am By Elizabeth […]
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