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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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“Dialogue” Isn’t enough: On the American Anthropological Association Vote.
Article in Salon explaining BDS as a rights-based anti-colonial movement helping to set conditions for national liberation.
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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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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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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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Irish scholars affirm academic boycott of Israel
The following letter, by a number of Irish academics, was published in the Irish Times on November 4, 2015: Sir, – As scholars associated with Irish institutions of higher education, north and south, we are deeply disturbed by Israel”s ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian land, the intolerable human rights violations that it inflicts on all […]
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Hundreds of UK academics sign “Commitment for Palestine,” publish Guardian ad affirming academic boycott of Israel
“We will not work with Israel”s universities” say 500 UK academics. View the website of these academics at http://commitment4p.com/ In an unprecedented statement university teachers say they will not do business with Israel”s university system. Professors and lecturers, Fellows of the Royal Society and Fellows of the British Academy say they will not visit Israel”s universities. Academics […]
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Sign on: European call to defend the right to education in Palestine
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel encourages all academics in the United States to sign on to this appeal to the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, regarding the Israeli aggression against Palestinian youth and students, and the Palestinian right to education, urging the suspension of the EU-Israel Association […]
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