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Divestment campaign gains traction at U of Arizona
by Philip Weiss on February 16, 2010 Divestment is biting at the University of Arizona. Several articles about the campaign in the student newspaper. Here”s the lead: UA administrators are resisting a recommendation by UA students to terminate the university”s contract with the Motorola Corporation. Students say the company is complicit in human rights violations […]
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Boycott and divestment gets mainstream attention in church, on campus
Thursday, February 4, 2010 It’s good news to see that boycott and divestment campaigns against companies profiting from Israeli occupation and apartheid are becoming increasingly mainstream. Here’s a couple of recent examples. The National Catholic Reporter ran a great article about the Kairos Document produced by the Palestinian Christian community, calling for churches around the […]
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First Anniversary of Divestment 2009 coming up!
February 7th marks the anniversary of Hampshire College’s divestment from the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, the first institution of higher education to wash its hands of the systematic exploitation of the Palestinian people by the Israeli state. To remember the occasion, Students for Justice in Palestine urges you to talk, inform and celebrate this historic […]
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BDS and The Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange (BIRAX)
On 17 January 2010, UK Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis announced that the British government would be contributing an additional £29,000 (174,000 NIS) to the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange partnership scheme. Launched by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and then Israeli PM Ehud Olmert on 20 July 2008 at a meeting of the Knesset, […]
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Anti-boycott campaigners: Ariel upgrade is like ‘a red rag to a bull’
By Cnaan Liphshiz The decision to upgrade the status of Ariel College to a university will greatly motivate proponents of an academic boycott of Israel, but will not change the legal realities preventing this, leading figures in the campaign against the boycott told Haaretz yesterday. Ariel College’s upgrade – announced yesterday by Defense Minister Ehud […]
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Israel and the Environment – a meeting that should not happen
I hope you won’t mind my writing to ask if you would be willing to sign the attached open letter. It asks David Bellamy to withdraw from participation in a forthcoming event aimed to ‘showcase’ Israel’s environmentalist credentials, and the contributions of its environmental scientists. Israel has actually been responsible for environmental degradation on a […]
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Ali Abunimah puts Noam Chomsky in his place on BDS
This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we”ll have a conversation with Ali Abu Nimah, co-Founder of Electronic Intifada and activist and Middle East expert Jeff Blankfort, in which they each comment on an interview Voices of the Middle East and North Africa first taped and aired last month with Professor […]
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Uphill battle for academic freedom in US universities
Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 11 January 2010 In 2009, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, became the first American higher educational institution to successfully pressure its Board of Trustees to divest from Israel-tied mutual funds. The victory came three decades after the college similarly disinvested from funds linked to apartheid South Africa. Across North America, […]
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Boycott & Divestment Efforts Proliferate on Campus: The U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
The U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) is an academic boycott campaign started in 2009 by 13 professors in California. USACBI describes itself as responding to the call of the international Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and is mimicking that group’s efforts to support […]
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Press Release: on USACBI’s One Year Anniversary
December 23, 2009 Contacts: Jess Ghannam, jess.ghannam[at]ucsf.edu, Sherna Berger Gluck, shernagluck[at]gmail.com; David Lloyd, colles2012[at]sbcglobal.net For Immediate Release December 27, 2009 marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of “Operation Cast Lead,” Israel”s 22-day assault on the captive population of Gaza, which killed 1400 people, one third of them children, and injured more than 5300. During […]
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