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USACBI letter of support for #SuspendPitzerHaifa campaign
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) sent the following letter to Pitzer College President Melvin Oliver, other senior officials, student leaders and faculty and staff at the college in support of the #SuspendPitzerHaifa campaign. The Pitzer students, faculty and staff voted overwhelmingly to suspend the college’s study abroad program […]
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Joint statement against the US denial of entry to BDS movement co-founder Omar Barghouti
The following is a collective statement released by international academic and cultural boycott of Israel (ACBI) organizations in response to the United States’ denial of entry to Omar Barghouti: The United States, a country where freedom of speech is supposedly guaranteed by the constitution, has banned Omar Barghouti from entering to fulfil a speaking tour. Omar Barghouti […]
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USACBI Condemns U.S. State for Banning BDS Leader Omar Barghouti
USACBI (the United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) strongly condemns the recent denial of permission to travel to the United States to Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement leader Omar Barghouti. Barghouti was scheduled to speak at several U.S. venues, including a temple in Chicago, and to attend his daughter’s wedding, when […]
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27 March, NYC: The Palestinians Who Built Israel: Andrew Ross and Lamis Deek
This event features the new book of USACBI Organizing Collective member Andrew Ross: Wednesday, 27 March 6:30 pm The People’s Forum 320 W. 37th Street NYC Facebook: //www.facebook.com/events/2171990819510720/ “They demolish our houses while we build theirs.” This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew […]
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An Honest Living by Steve Salaita
The following essay was originally published at Steve Salaita’s blog: About halfway to the lot, a ribbon of cobalt rises on the horizon; when it’s cloudy, a common occurrence in the mid-Atlantic, the darkness stays pure. The spectrum of color will change with the seasons, but now it is winter and the sun comes slowly, […]
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Take action – sign petition against SFSU’s “religious holidays” list that includes “Israeli Independence Day”
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel encourages all supporters to sign on to the petition below in support of students, faculty and other community members at San Francisco State University (SFSU). In the latest incident of racism and Islamophobia on campus, a list of “religious holidays” was distributed to all […]
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‘Daily Californian’ solicits, then kills, op-ed on academic boycott of Israel
By Andrew Ross and John King, members of the USACBI Organizing Collective After the University of California chancellors posted an anti-BDS statement in December, Daily Californian editors solicited an op-ed response from Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights. The request was passed on to USACBI, an organization with more expertise on the academic boycott, and the two […]
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Palestine and the Climate Crisis
The following article by USACBI Organizing Collective member David Klein is reprinted from Mondoweiss: The urgency of the global climate crisis makes it imperative for any social justice movement to come to grips with, and confront it in some way. There can be no social justice, after all, on a dead planet. Biologists report that […]
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USACBI Statement on the ASA Lawsuit
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) announces a major victory for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and for Palestine solidarity activism in the United States, with the dismissal of an anti-boycott lawsuit filed by Zionist plaintiffs. On February 4, 2019, a federal judge threw out the Louis […]
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Nobel laureate Prof. George P. Smith speaks about the importance of BDS
Prof. George P. Smith, 2018 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, spoke about BDS during his trip to Stockholm, Sweden, Dec 2018. “People of conscience all over the world have an obligation to pay attention to abuses of human rights, like [Israel’s] 71-year regime of dispossession and subjugation. “The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, that 170 […]
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