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Joint Statement: Solidarity with Palestine Antikolonial in Münster, Germany
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is committed to supporting Palestinian and Palestine solidarity organizations targeted for repression in the U.S. and around the world. Campuses are a particularly powerful site of mobilization in support of Palestinian rights and have also become targets of repression. We joined the following international […]
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Open Letter to the University of California taskforce: the Intersections of Policing and Divestment
The following letter by Students for Justice in Palestine-West and the Palestinian Youth Movement is fully supported by USACBI. SJP-West and the Palestinian Youth Movement issued this letter in response to requests for feedback for the University of California’s Task Force on Universitywide Policing. Dear Presidential Task Force for Universitywide Policing, We hope this letter […]
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Statement on the case of Lara Alqasem
The global BDS movement is opposed to international study in Israel. USACBI encourages students in the US who want to enroll in academic programs in the region to explore options at Palestinian universities. Lara Alqasem’s week-long detention at Ben Gurion Airport is an example of Israel’s discrimination against Arab Americans and illustrates that study in […]
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Fordham Alumni Oppose Decision to Ban SJP Chapter
June 7, 2017 Dear President McShane, Vice President Gray, Provost Freedman, and Dean Eldredge: We, the undersigned Fordham Alums, strongly oppose your decision to ban a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at our alma mater. We come together to urge you to do the right thing for current students and alumni: reverse the […]
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CUNY Doctoral Students Council endorses the boycott of Israeli academic institutions
USACBI congratulates the Doctoral Students’ Council at the City University of New York, who voted for a resolution calling for the academic boycott of Israel on Friday afternoon, April 15. “The repression of CUNY students is connected to the same systems of power that uphold the Israeli state”s violation of Palestinian rights within Israel and […]
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Palestinian students launch national Right to Education tour
This April, National Students for Justice in Palestine is organizing its second national speaking tour of Palestinian students with the Right to Education Campaign (R2E) at Birzeit University in the West Bank. For two weeks, students from across Palestine will meet and speak with college students and youth organizers about their experiences as students living under Israeli occupation and […]
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USACBI statement of solidarity with faculty and students under attack at CUNY
On March 22nd, Distinguished Professor Sarah Schulman was summoned to testify before a Commission on Anti-Semitism at the City University of New York (CUNY). The Commission was hastily set up after the Zionist Organization of America submitted a letter containing a series of allegations of anti-Semitism at various CUNY campuses. Newspapers such as the New York […]
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Video: Toronto event on Palestinian popular resistance and BDS that the JDL tried to shut down
Noura Erekat, Palestinian lawyer, professor and activist, and Nada Elia, Palestinian scholar and member of USACBI’s organizing collective, spoke at the University of Toronto on 12 January at an event organized by the University of Toronto Divestment campaign. The event came under attack by right-wing Zionist organizations, in particular the Jewish Defense League (JDL). Elia […]
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Palestine Right to Education tour coming to the United States in April
“‹In 2014, National Students for Justice in Palestine partnered with Birzeit University’s Right to Education (R2E) campaign to host and organize the first-ever Right to Education tour in the United States. Ten students from Birzeit University visited college campuses in the fall to speak about life and education under occupation. The tour began with a stop […]
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October 14: International Day of Action on University Campuses
2nd Annual International Day of Action on University Campuses Free Palestine, End the Siege on Gaza. Immigrants and Refugees are welcome-No Human is Illegal. Affirming Global Solidarity with African Americans and Black Lives Matter. October 14th, 2015 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/883358391754677/ Resource Website: https://ida-palestine.github.io/ A call for activists and organizations on campuses across the world to organize massive […]
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