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Palestine Right to Education tour coming to the United States in April
“‹In 2014, National Students for Justice in Palestine partnered with Birzeit University’s Right to Education (R2E) campaign to host and organize the first-ever Right to Education tour in the United States. Ten students from Birzeit University visited college campuses in the fall to speak about life and education under occupation. The tour began with a stop […]
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BDS in 2015: Seven ways our movement broke new ground against Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid
The following year in review is republished from the Palestinian BDS National Committee: The year 2015 will be remembered as the year that Palestinian popular resistance spread across historic Palestine and that saw tens of thousands of Palestinians take to the streets to resist and confront Israel”s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. Ten years […]
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USACBI salutes boycott victory at American Anthropological Association conference
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) salutes the American Anthropological Association, whose general conference voted in a landslide last night in support of a resolution for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israeli academic institutions. The resolution, which passed with 1040 votes in favor and 136 votes against, mandates the […]
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USACBI Statement on Steven Salaita’s Legal Settlement with UIUC
USACBI stands in solidarity with Professor Steven Salaita in his legal settlement with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Last week, the University agreed to pay Salaita a reported total of $875,000. As was widely reported, UIUC fired Salaita in 2014 after he made comments on his personal Twitter account critical of Israel”s massacre of more […]
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New Video: Prominent artists call for cultural boycott of Israel
Adalah-NY, the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, launched a new video highlighting Amplify Palestine, its new cultural boycott campaign based in New York City. The video features eight artists with ties to New York supporting the cultural boycott of Israel. The video features actor Kathleen Chalfant; musician Roger Waters, a founding member […]
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November 18, NYC: Against Apartheid – The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities
Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities: Book release and discussion at 7:00 p.m. at The CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave), room C201. As the debate about BDS continues nationally and within CUNY, please join Ashley Dawson, Bill V. Mullen, Nerdeen Mohsen and Radhika Sainath for a vital discussion on the importance–and challenges–of boycotting […]
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USACBI’s academic defense committee produces template letters to defend faculty and students under attack
USACBI’s Academic Defense Committee, committed to the defense of scholars, students, staff members, and campus groups who face censorship and backlash for their solidarity with Palestine and engagement with BDS activism, has released two new letters to help groups and individuals support faculty and students under attack. The template letters, for use in writing to defend […]
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USACBI: 10th anniversary of BDS and the struggle for decolonization of Palestine today
The end of 2015 marks the completion of the 10 year anniversary of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions on Israel. Launched to raise the level of international action against the violent and illegal Israeli colonization and occupation of Palestine in an effort to end it, BDS has won a steady stream of […]
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Brazilian star Caetano Veloso announces he will never go back to Israel
From the Palestinian Boycott National Committee: After performing in Tel Aviv, in defiance of Palestinian appeals not to help Israel use his name to cover up its regime of oppression, Caetano Veloso has now concluded that he will “never go back” to Israel. In an article entitled, “To visit Israel to never go back to […]
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National Women’s Studies Association to consider BDS resolution at upcoming conference
The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) will consider the following resolution, developed by Feminists for Justice in Palestine, at its upcoming convention, November 12-15 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which aims to bring the NWSA among the academic associations that have officially endorsed the call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. In the lead-up to the […]
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