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New Resource: USACBI Pamphlet for Students on Academic Boycott of Israel
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is making available a new resource, designed especially for students on US campuses who are working for justice and liberation for Palestine. The new pamphlet (available for download here) provides an overview of USACBI’s work and helpful suggestions and examples of organizing students can […]
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JOINT STATEMENT: South African Youth and Student Groups Slam Israeli Propaganda Holiday Trips
11 June 2015 A meeting was convened earlier today by the leadership of the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) which is composed of the African National Congress Youth League (ANC Youth League) the youth wing of South Africa’s ruling ANC party, the South African Students Congress (SASCO) representing university students at institutions of higher learning, the […]
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USACBI congratulates the students and staff of SOAS on academic boycott endorsement
USACBI extends its warmest congratulations to the students and staff at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for endorsing an academic boycott of Israel through the passage of a referendum that also was supported by PACBI and Palestinian student and academic unions. That 73% of the 2,056 votes cast between February 23-27, 2015 […]
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Palestinian-led community coalition supports UC Davis divestment
Students at the University of California, Davis, passed a resolution for divestment in their student senate on January 30 following a lengthy campaign; following the resolution’s victory, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi condemned the resolution supporting Palestinian human rights. The following statement in support of the students’ divestment campaign at the University of California – Davis […]
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Education Kills Fascists
By Heike Schotten. Original link: http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=685102 Remember back in 2010 when Israel denied Noam Chomsky entry into the West Bank? All the bureaucratic scurrying in the world and embarrassed tsk-tsking about “misunderstandings” with the Interior Ministry could not mitigate the transparently outrageous fact that Israel actively prevented a soft-spoken, aging academic from delivering a public lecture […]
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Students Support the American Studies Association Boycott Resolution
The following statement in support of the American Studies Association resolution supporting academic boycott was organized by Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine and National Students for Justice in Palestine. Contact CornellS4JP [at] gmail.com if your student group would like to sign on. Dear Curtis Marez, Lisa Duggan, Matthew Jacobson, and John Stephens: As nationwide […]
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Belgian students vote in favor of Israel boycott
The JTA reported on June 1 that a Belgian student association voted in favor of an academic boycott of Israel. In a vote last month, the general council of the Federation of French-speaking Students in Belgium, or FEF, adopted a motion calling for “a freezing of relations with Israeli universities,” the Belgian newspaper Le Soir reported Wednesday. […]
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BDS Victory: Earlham College Stops Selling Sabra
In Response to Student and Faculty Concerns, Earlham College”s Dining Services Decides to Stop Selling Sabra Products From BDS Earlham: On the 5th of September, Earlham College”s dining service agreed to have Sabra Hummus removed from the coffee shop after being informed of the involvement in Israeli human rights violations in Palestine by Strauss Group Ltd., of […]
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Boycott, Divest and Sanction at the University of Michigan
The following article was published in the “Michigan Daily” on April 5, 2012: Boycott, Divest and Sanction by Ahmed Hasan MICHIGAN DAILY (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus) As we write this piece, more than 5,300 Palestinians are imprisoned in Israeli jails. Zero Israelis are imprisoned in Palestinian jails. A total of 24,813 Palestinian homes have […]
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National M.E.Ch.A. Endorses Palestinian Boycott Call Against Israel
Latin@ Groups Across US Take Historic Stand at 19th Annual Conference; Decision Announced on National César Chávez Day At the 18th annual national conference of M.E.Ch.A. (Movímíento Estudíantíl Chícan@ de Aztlán), the largest association of Latin@ youth in the US, chapter leaders voted by a landslide decision to endorse the global call for Boycott, Divestment, […]
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