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101 Organizations Thank Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for Slam-Dunking Israeli Apartheid
USACBI is a signatory of the letter to Kareen Abdul-Jabbar. Follow this link to sign on. MEDIA CONTACT: Anna Baltzer, organizer@endtheoccupation.org, 202-332-0994 The Jerusalem Film Festival foreign office has confirmed that legendary basketball star and actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reversed plans to visit Israel due to concerns arising “after the Nakba Day violence.” Abdul-Jabbar was slated […]
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Twitter Alert: Tell Jello Biafra to Honor the Boycott!
After building a career on his opposition to racism and oppression, Jello Biafra has unbelievably decided to violate the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel by performing with his current band, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, in Tel Aviv on July 2. See appeals to Jello from Palestinians, solidarity activists, and his fans. […]
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Twitter Alert: Tell the Doors Not to Perform in Israel!
Will you tell The Doors to cancel their trip to Israel? We are asking BDS supporters to get the word out and tell Ray Manzarek & Robby Krieger of The Doors to cancel their July 5th performance in Israel! See the letter urging them to respect Palestinian rights and not cross the international picket line:http://bit.ly/BDSdoors […]
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Daily Star: Campaign asks Moby not to perform in Israel
The following article appeared in Lebanon’s Daily Star on June 19, 2011: BEIRUT: The U.S. campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel has asked American singer Moby to cancel his concert in Israel which is scheduled for July 12, urging him to denounce war and only make love. “Come to Lebanon on July 5, […]
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Gaza: Young Palestinians Lead a Global Movement
The following article, by Joe Catron, was published on PalestineChronicle.com: By Joe Catron On a warm, sunny afternoon, I met Eman Sourani and Rana Baker in an airy outdoor café several blocks from the port of Gaza. Both are members of the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI). Sourani, a 22-year-old […]
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PACBI: Jello Biafra, Do Not Cross our Picket Line
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, PACBI, sent the following appeal to Jello Biafra, calling upon him to cancel his scheduled performance in Israel. Appeal to Jello Biafra: Do not cross our picket line June 12, 2011 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) sent […]
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Open Letter to Napalm Death: Playing Israel is Supporting Apartheid
USACBI endorses the following effort initiated by the Facebook group Napalm Death: Playing In Israel is Supporting Apartheid: People of conscience across the world are asking the metal band Napalm Death to cancel their June 17, 2011 concert in Tel Aviv, Israel. Only 7 days away, and with limited resources, it is amazing that this […]
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Open letter from Lebanon to Moby: “Come to Lebanon, and not to Israel: “˜Make Love, Fuck War”™!
30 May 2011 Dear Moby, Knowing that you honor your legacy to Herman Melville, as is evident in your stage name, we call on you to consider what your ancestor wrote in his journal in 1857: “all who cultivate the soil in Palestine are Arabs.” While in Palestine, his writings illustrated his respect for the […]
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Kauanui: Letter to IGLYO: No such thing as neutrality.
USACBI advisory board member J. Kehaulani Kauanui wrote the following letter to the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organization Board of Directors, in response to the call from Palestinian Queer organizations, demanding IGLYO cancel its General Assembly in Israel in December 2011 and stop participating in Israel’s pinkwashing campaign. Her letter is based on the letter […]
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International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organization Out of Israel!
AlQaws, Aswat and Palestinian Queers for BDS have launched an important online campaign to urge the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organization (IGLYO) to move its General Assembly out of Israel, to stop being an active participant in Israel’s cynical Pinkwashing campaigns, and to stop ignoring Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid policies, and violations of international […]
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