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Palestinian rights activists join BDS Global Day of Action commemorating Land Day
The following statement was issued by the Boycott National Committee: Occupied Palestine, 31 March 2012 – Supporters of Palestinian rights across the world have taken action in support of the campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law to mark Palestinian Land Day on March 30. Land Day, […]
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USACBI congratulates Carleton students on divestment vote victory
USACBI, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, sends hearty congratulations to the graduate students at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, for their March 21 and 22 landmark vote to divest from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. We also congratulate SAIA (Students Against Israeli Apartheid) for their ongoing work to build a campus divestment movement at […]
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Press Release: Gaza is Dying
Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine–We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Israeli war crimes committed against our people in the Gaza Strip. We call on the international community and the Arab and Islamic worlds to take up their responsibility to protect the Palestinian people from this heinous aggression and immediately terminate the continuing Israeli policy […]
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Syria Solidarity Statement 03/2012
This Syria solidarity statement was initiated by Tadamon! Montreal. The Syrian people continue to demand their rights and liberties and the end of the al-Assad regime. The Syrian state has responded with brutal repression. Since the uprising began, the Syrian regime”s propaganda machine has labelled those calling for freedom and justice “criminals”, “terrorists” and religious […]
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South African-Palestinian music video celebrates common struggle against racial intolerance
Published by Ali Abunimah at the Electronic Intifada: In a first ever musical collaboration between South Africa and Palestine, South African band, The Mavrix and Palestinian Oud player, Mohammed Omar, have released a music video called “The New Black.” The song is taken from The Mavrix”s upcoming album, Pura Vida, set for release in June. The […]
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Colonization of the Mind: Normalize This!
Published first in the Palestine Chronicle. By Samah Sabawi (Full Transcript. Excerpts from this speech were presented at the University of Sydney Australia during Israeli Apartheid Week 2012.) I would like to talk about normalization. I found the best definition of the word normalization on the Palestinian Campaign for Cultural and Academic Boycott”s website: “Normalization […]
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Seattle LGBT Commission Cancels “Pinkwashing” Event Sponsored by Israeli Consulate – Events in Olympia and Tacoma Also Canceled
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE USACBI Press Contact: usacbi@usacbi.org Seattle Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace Press Contact: Wendy Somerson 206-226-9218 Olympia Press Contact: Anna-Marie Murano 360-402-0794 [16 March 2012] The Seattle LGBT Commission has voted to cancel an upcoming event being sponsored by the Israeli Consulate and right-wing Israel advocacy group StandWithUs. The event, scheduled for […]
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California Scholars for Academic Freedom Protest UC President’s Apparent Bias Regarding the Right of Free Speech and Dissent on UC Campuses
March 10, 2012: CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM (CS4AF), a group of 150 scholars at twenty California institutions of higher learning, are concerned about the latest statements and actions of UC President Mark Yudof. The group believes that under the guise of promoting “civility and tolerance,” Yudof has in fact delivered a blow to the right to […]
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INCACBI Appeal to Vikas Swarup: Boycott the International Writers Festival 2012 in Jerusalem!
Dear Vikas Swarup, We understand that you are scheduled to participate in the International Writers Festival to be held in Jerusalem (Mishkenot Sha ananim) from May 13-18, 2012. We, a group of academics, activists and artists in India, came together in June 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the […]
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Cassandra Wilson, thank you from solidarity groups around the world
Dear Cassandra Wilson, As different groups working in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle against apartheid, war crimes and terrible injustices perpetrated against them by Israel, we applaud you for your courageous decision not to play for the Holon International Women’s Festival. Thank you for your statement in support of the cultural boycott […]
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