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New Activist Toolkit Released: Boycott Study Abroad in Israel Campaign
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel has launched a new activist toolkit for students and others to use when creating campaigns to Boycott Study Abroad in Israel on their campuses and in their communities. The toolkit contains an array of useful resources and information, from tips on researching a campaign […]
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USACBI protests wrongful termination of professor Mazen Adi by Rutgers University
The Organizing Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel protests and condemns in strongest terms the wrongful termination of the employment of Professor Mazen Adi by Rutgers University. According to exchanges between Professor Adi and Rutgers staff, including Rutgers Chancellor Debasish Dutta and President Robert Barchi, Rutgers breached its contract with Dr. […]
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October 21, San Francisco: Resist Racist Repression, Defend Solidarity with the Palestinian People
The next event in solidarity with USACBI as part of the Resist Racist Repression, Defend Solidarity with the Palestinian People: National Defense Campaign will take place on Sunday, October 21 from 3 pm to 5 pm at 518 Valencia St in San Francisco. USACBI is co-sponsoring this event along with Arab Resource and Organizing Center […]
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USACBI condemns British Labour Party’s adoption of IHRA’s “antisemitism definition”
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) condemns the British Labour Party’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance “definition of antisemitism.” The adoption serves only the interests of the Zionist enablers of Israel’s apartheid state. It is an attempt to exclude entirely from British politics, and especially the […]
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USACBI condemns Israeli violations of Palestinian academic freedom
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) condemns in the strongest terms Israel’s latest breaches of academic freedom in Palestine and stands in solidarity with the Palestinian students and faculty affected by them the most. While an immense effort is being made by supporters of Israel to promote the ostensible […]
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USACBI Calls for Student Government Resolutions Condemning Canary Mission
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel congratulates the student government at the University of California Davis for being the first such group in the country to collectively condemn Canary Mission, the anonymous on-line blacklist of students and activists supporting Palestinian human rights. USACBI stands with and encourages student governments […]
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David Palumbo-Liu: Ahed Tamimi Is Free, but 400 More Palestinian Children Remain in Military Jails
The following article, by USACBI Organizing Collective member David Palumbo-Liu, was originally published in Truthout and can be read here: https://truthout.org/articles/ahed-tamimi-is-free-but-400-more-palestinian-children-remain-in-jails/ On July 29, 17-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi was released from an Israeli prison. Her mother Nariman, who was present in February when Tamimi slapped an Israel Defense Force soldier in the face and who filmed the incident, was also […]
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USACBI letter calls on scientists to reject settlement university conference, support academic boycott of Israel
The following letter was sent to the invited participants of “Inflation, Alternatives and Gravitational Waves,” a conference taking place at Ariel University, a settler university constructed in an illegal settlement in the West Bank of occupied Palestine, from September 3-6, 2018. Initiated by USACBI Organizing Collective member and mathematician Prof. David Klein and signed by […]
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USACBI is outraged at the sentencing of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, calls for solidarity from artists, writers and cultural workers
We in the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel express our outrage at the sentencing of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour and call for solidarity from artists, writers and cultural workers around the world. On July 31, Tatour was sentenced to 5 months in Israeli prison for her writings online, including her […]
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Nada Elia: “Empty chairs: Combating Israel’s assault on Palestinian academia”
The following article, by Nada Elia, was first published online on July 23, 2018, at Middle East Eye. Nada Elia is a member of the Organizing Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. In Cork, Ireland, last month, at the annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, an […]
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