• NYU-Tel Aviv University: A Partnership in Occupation

    NYU Students for Justice in Palestine presents: a panel discussion featuring Andrew Ross, chair, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU Elias Khoury, acclaimed novelist Nir Harel, Anarchists Against The Wall TUESDAY MARCH 3, 2009 7PM NYU KIMMEL CENTER, ROOM 802 60 WASHINGTON SQUARE SOUTH In the wake of Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, NYU’s […]

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  • CUPE members vote to boycott Israeli universities

    Updated: Sun Feb. 22 2009 1:14:50 PM The Canadian Press WINDSOR, Ont. – Delegates at a conference in Windsor for the Canadian Union of Public Employees have voted in favour of boycotting Israeli universities. Resolution 50 protests the Israeli siege of Gaza, which members of the Jewish Defence League call anti-Semitic. At least two locals […]

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  • Take Back NYU’s demands

    At the heart of the occupation is a list of 13 demands that Take Back NYU has outlined on their website. (The number 13 is in reference to the 1,300 killed in Gaza, according to CAS senior Bamu Quadir.) While several members of the occupation have said their list of demands is negotiable, the following […]

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  • Hampshire students defend their victory

    Gary Lapon reports that pro-Israel apologists are putting pressure on Hampshire College to back away from its historic divestment decision. February 20, 2009 UNDER PRESSURE from pro-Israel apologists led by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, administrators at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., issued a “statement of clarification” about the recent decision to divest from six […]

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  • California State University, Long Beach Student Resolution

    A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF: A Call for the Immediate End to the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza and a Boycott of goods and services that maintain business relations with Israel. Whereas from December 27, 2008 to January 22, 2009 attacks launched by the Israeli government on Gaza have resulted in over 1,300 deaths and 5,300 […]

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  • Do The Right Thing: Hampshire’s Selective Divestment Movement

    By Ellen Cantarow Dear friends, I am so excited to report to you that Hampshire College has become the first US college… to divest from Israeli occupation, just as they were the first to divest from South African apartheid in 1977! You can read all about it to your heart’s content at the Hampshire Students […]

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  • Boycott promotes debate

    Protest takes nonviolent approach toward preserving intellectual freedom in Israel. David Lloyd, Ph.D. Published: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 At the height of Israel”s ruthless assault on Gaza, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution offering its total and uncritical support to Israel. This deeply biased resolution, reputedly drafted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and […]

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  • Nearly 200 Faculty Members at U.S. Colleges Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel

    Daily news reported by The Chronicle February 18, 2009 A fledgling group calling itself the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel now lists 193 faculty members and several student groups at American colleges as endorsing its call for a boycott. David Lloyd, a professor of English at the University of Southern […]

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  • Letter on Academic Freedom in Palestine

    Dear President Bollinger, On a number of occasions since becoming president of Columbia University you have expressed your views in public on questions of academic freedom in the Middle East. Yet you have remained silent on the actions by Israel that deny that freedom to Palestinians. These actions include Israel’s continuing blockade of Gaza, the […]

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  • Support Hampshire College SJP

    PULSE Ever since it announced to widespread applause its decision to divest from the Israeli occupation, Hampshire College administration is being hammered by the Israel lobby”s flak machine led by Zionist fanatic Alan Dershowitz (best known for his academic malpractices) who is threatening the institution with withdrawal of funding, unless, Inside Higher Ed reports, “Hampshire […]

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