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Ekeland: In its new agreement with the Technion, the í‰cole Polytechnique maintains its disregard for international law and ethics
22 septembre |Ivar Ekeland From AURDIP – en english | fr franí§ais Economic policy has rarely been so ineffectual. Unemployment continues to rise, poverty and precarity likewise, social fractures grow. Meanwhile the budget deficit, in whose name so much has been sacrificed for so many years, refuses to shrink. Arms sales are the only healthy side […]
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Radio interview features Lisa Taraki and Omar Barghouti on academic boycott
SWANA REGION RADIO Voices from Kolkota to Casablanca Voices of struggle, Voices for change Monday, 21 September 2015, 3:30-4:00 PM “¨”¨KPFK/Pacifica Radio 90.7 fm, Los Angeles Streaming at kpfk.org and available on audio archive for 90 days Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) An interview with co-founders of the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel From its inception in 2004 […]
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September 29, Webinar: Why an academic boycott?
Why an Academic Boycott? Webinar with Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Legal and US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel Tuesday, September 29th at 5pm PST/8pm EST Do you have questions or concerns about the academic boycott of Israel? Do you support economic boycotts, but are worried about academic freedom? Come join […]
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Partha Chatterjee: Why I Support the Boycott of Israeli Institutions
USACBI is honored to republish this essay by Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, and of the Centre for the Studies of Social Sciences in Calcutta, and notes his endorsement of the USACBI call as well as the Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic […]
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Resolution on Palestinian right to education to be considered at American Historical Association meeting
Historians Against the War have submitted a resolution for consideration at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta on January 7-10, 2016, focusing on Palestinian right to education and its denial at the hands of the Israeli state. In order to support the resolution and educate the AHA membership about the […]
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Academics’ statement: Obama must end support for Israeli apartheid against Palestinian scholars
The following statement, by a diverse group of scholars, including J. KÄ“haulani Kauanui of the USACBI Advisory Board, was posted on Electronic Intifada on September 3, 2015. We repost the statement here as an important document of the oppression and denial of academic freedom that Palestinian scholars suffer at the hands of the Israeli state: Obama […]
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Steven Salaita Vindicated in Federal Court
Crucially, as this article explains, the judge ruled that the topic of Israel-Palestine was of great public concern, and therefore freedom of speech and academic freedom even more called for; he dismissed the university’s argument that it needed to protect the campus against “disruption.” This has huge ramifications for future activism.
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Report: Palestinian Universities Under Occupation
The following report was issued in July 2015 by an eight-member delegation organized by the European Platform for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (EPACBI), which visited seven Palestinian universities in April 2015. The full report text is below, or you can download a PDF of the report. Palestinian Universities under Occupation This Report was prepared […]
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Now, More Than Ever, Solidarity
AURDIP invited David Palumbo-Liu to write the editorial for its August newsletter. In it he comments on the need to remind ourselves that the violence of the settlers should not be seen as a “fringe” or aberrant event, but part of the logic of the Occupation. He also stresses the importance of links between USACBI […]
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