• British Writers in Support of Palestine: Jerusalem Book Fair & Prize Eminently Boycottable

    Posted on January 22, 2011

    BWISP – Jerusalem Book Fair & Prize: Both Eminently Boycottable It was announced yesterday that British novelist Ian McEwan has been awarded the Jerusalem Prize, awarded biennally at the Jerusalem Book Fair, to a writer whose work explores the theme of the “freedom of the individual in society”. The Book Fair is notable for its Fellowship scheme, in […]

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  • AMARC: World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Joins BDS Movement

    Posted on January 22, 2011

    Recently, in La Plata, Argentina, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)  joined the BDS movement. See below for the AMARC statement and a solidarity statement from Tadamon! Montreal. AMARC 10 motion to support Palestinian civil society call for BDS (Spanish and French available here) –Whereas Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people comprises the […]

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  • USACBI Appeal to Macy Gray: Don’t legitimize apartheid

    Posted on January 20, 2011

    Dear Macy Gray, You report on your Facebook page that you are receiving “a lot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid against the Palestinians.” And you say that you “don”t know how my NOT going changes anything.”  The answer is that the cultural boycott of Israel is having […]

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  • Macy Gray publicly contemplating the BDS call – contact her on Facebook!

    Posted on January 19, 2011

    Macy Gray published this on her official Facebook page: “I’m booked for 2 shows in TelAviv. I’m getting alot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid against the Palestinians. What the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinians is disgusting, but I wana go. I gotta lotta fans there I dont want to […]

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  • Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel

    Posted on January 7, 2011

    http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1442 It is with great disappointment that the undersigned organizations learned of your scheduled performance in Israel set for 2011 as part of your “Circle Tour” [1].  Given that Israel is involved in grave violations of international law and human rights, particularly as indicated in the UN Goldstone Report, we urge you to cancel this gig […]

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  • PACBI: The Challenge for 2011: Start implementing the academic boycott of Israel

    Posted on January 7, 2011

    http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1438 If 2010 witnessed an exceptional growth of the global BDS movement, especially in the cultural and consumer products fields, one of the main challenges facing the movement in 2011 will be to start putting into effect concrete boycott measures against Israeli universities and to further spread the artists” boycott of Israel. With world renowned […]

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  • Tell Felix Da Housecat: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel!

    Posted on December 5, 2010

    We have learned that American artist, Felix Da Housecat, is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on December 12th, 2010. We have sent a letter asking him to join the BDS movement but we need your help in getting the word to him, since his performance is scheduled in only a week. Please help us […]

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  • USACBI on Professor Lisa Taraki’s US Visit

    Posted on October 26, 2010

    The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel [USACBI] is proud to host Professor Lisa Taraki during her tour of the United States. In addition to her academic work as a sociologist at Birzeit University in Palestine on aspects of Palestinian society, politics and urban social history, she has been an activist […]

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  • Alvin Ailey: Don’t Dance Around Israeli Apartheid

    Posted on October 10, 2010

    PACBI | 9 October 2010 While human beings are being willfully denied not just their rights but their needs for their children and grandparents and themselves, I feel deeply that I should not be sending even tacit signals that [performing in Israel] is either ‘normal’ or ‘ok’. It’s neither and I cannot support it. It […]

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  • Architects against Israeli occupation

    Posted on October 9, 2010

    With the settlement freeze over, international architects must take action to end illegal construction in the West Bank o Abe Hayeem o guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 October 2010 10.01 BST In deciding to back the boycott of Ariel theatre in the West Bank, Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American architect of Guggenheim fame, joins a growing body of […]

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