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The deceptive rhetoric of “Invest for Peace”
Charlotte Silver, The Electronic Intifada, 6 July 2010 The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement is gaining significant momentum cross the United States and Europe, including at US campuses. In response, opposition to the movement is devising new ways to divert attention from efforts to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law and […]
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Counter the Complicity of Israel’s Medical Establishment: Boycott the Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine
Occupied Ramallah, 30 June 2010 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) urges international medical professionals to boycott the Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine, scheduled for 19-22 October 2010 in Jerusalem. The conference, which is sponsored by virtually all of the major medical centers in Israel, in addition to […]
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Why Israeli academia will be boycotted
Education Minister Sa’ar’s recent initiatives are a sign of the Israeli government’s increasing self-seclusion inside a bunker of delusions, as it distances itself from considerations guided by historical, political and social wisdom. His recent statements befit benighted regimes that have lost connection to the world, like Iran and other totalitarian states. By Moshe Shoked In […]
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Robert Boyce questions Israel’s continued participation in EU Research Framework Programmes
To European Commissioner for Research Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn: As an academic connected to a research-led institution, I strongly support initiatives for strengthening research cooperation within the European Union and the European Economic Area. However, I wish to know how you can justify Israel’s continued participation in EU Research Framework Programmes when it so […]
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Evergreen State students overwhelmingly pass divestment votes
Press release, TESC Divest, 8 June 2010 The following release was issued on 2 June 2010 by TESC Divest: On 2 June 2010, students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, made history by passing two resolutions supporting human rights, upholding international law, and promoting a just peace in the Palestine/Israel conflict. 1. The […]
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BDS in the USA, 2001-2010
Noura Erakat Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and adjunct professor of international human rights law at Georgetown University. On April 26, 2010, the student senate at the University of California-Berkeley upheld, by one vote, an executive veto on SB 118–the student body resolution endorsing divestment of university funds from General Electric and United […]
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SJP releases “Facing Apartheid,” personal accounts of Palestinian students
A project by Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley, Facing Apartheid is part of an effort to educate the campus community on its connection to and responsibility for illegal military occupation and apartheid policies which directly and systematically impede access to higher education for Palestinian students in the West Bank, Gaza and 1948 […]
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Rachel Would be Proud
We received the following press release from student activists in Washington. They announced that Evergreen State College students overwhelmingly voted to divest from Israel. Rachel Corrie was a senior at the college when the Israeli army took her life with a Caterpillar bulldozer, as she stood in front of a Palestinian home they wanted to […]
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Evergreen College students vote to divest
(June 3, 2010) The students at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, the alma mater of Rachel Corrie, announced that the whole student body voted overwhelmingly in favor of divestment from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation and in favor of making their campus Caterpillar-free. Watch the video – UC Berkeley divestment supporters speak: […]
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The Evergreen State College Passes Divestment Campaign
The Resolutions Resolution #1: We, the student body of The Evergreen State College, call on The Evergreen State College Foundation to instate a socially responsible investment policy. To this end, we ask them to divest from companies that profit from Israel”s occupation of Palestine. As members of the Evergreen community, we stand with conscientious Palestinians, […]
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