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SWANA Region Radio: Interviews on Academic Boycott and BDS
SWANA Region Radio on KPFK conducted two interviews on 28 September, focusing on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: the first, an interview with Lisa Taraki and Omar Barghouti on the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the second with Mitri Raheb, on Palestinian Christians today. Available on audio archive […]
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Elia and Najjar: Israel’s assaults on Palestinian education amount to genocide
Nada Elia and Rima Najjar, of USACBI’s Organizing Collective, have authored a new article in Electronic Intifada on Israeli attacks on Palestinian education. Focusing on attacks on Palestinian education in 1948 Occupied Palestine and in Jerusalem, the article provides a historical and current view. “The historical context of today”s crisis in Palestinian education is critically important […]
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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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Remi Kanazi’s new book out now: Before the Next Bomb Drops
USACBI Organizing Collective member, poet and writer Remi Kanazi’s second collection of poetry, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine, was released on September 15 by Haymarket Books; it is available for order on Haymarket’s site: http://bit.ly/1GTcm4v It is also available on Amazon, including Kindle, in the US and globally: http://amzn.to/1IFFKqe Kanazi will be doing a 100-stop US/Canada […]
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Labor Boycott of Israel: Michael Letwin on UE’s BDS Resolution
At its its national convention in Baltimore this August, UE, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers endorsed the worldwide BDS movement – Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions – to pressure Israel to end its apartheid over the Palestinians just as similar tactics helped to end South African apartheid in the 1980s. UE represents more than 30,000 […]
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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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The Iran Deal: How Far Will Americans Go to Extend “Special Status” to Israel?
This article connects the debates around the Iran deal to changes in American attitudes toward Israel and possible effects on the ways we organize and advocate for BDS. It includes interviews with Mouin Rabbani and Diana Buttu.
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