• USACBI on Professor Lisa Taraki’s US Visit

    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

    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

    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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  • ETC, Expel the Cameri Theater of Tel-Aviv!

    September 14, 2010 To the board and member theatres of the European Theatre Convention (ETC), We, Jews, Palestinians, citizens of Israel, write to you today asking you to cancel the Israeli theatre The Cameri’s membership of the ETC, due to The Cameri’s implicit and now also explicit role in sustaining the occupation of Palestine and […]

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  • Scorpions, Make a Clear Statement in Support of Justice

    30 September 2010 Dear Scorpions, We are a group of activists from Israel, writing to you to express our support for the open letter written to you by PACBI. As people who have for many years been striving to achieve justice and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis we have reached a conclusion that our […]

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  • Artists breaking the silence on Palestine

    By Stefan Christoff | October 4, 2010 Artists play a galvanizing role in shaping popular opinion on the defining issues of our time. Historic struggles for justice are often remembered at a grassroots level not by campaign slogans or political speeches but via artistic symbols. Art can capture both the human emotion and political energy […]

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  • SCORPIONS: “Wind of Change” for Justice or Apartheid?

    An Open Letter from PACBI Dear Scorpions, Occupied Ramallah, 28 September 2010 — The Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has learned from various sources that you are scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on October 4, 2010. Your performance in Israel was only recently announced on your official tour website. […]

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  • Gestures From an Explosive Movement Palette

    By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO Published: September 26, 2010 The big hook for the Batsheva Dance Company”s Joyce Theater engagement is that two casts perform Ohad Naharin”s “Project 5″ sampler program, one all-female and the other all-male. Audiences can compare and contrast, seeing just what a difference gender makes in this Israeli choreographer”s intensely physical work. […]

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  • Fashion Week soiree hosted by Israeli settlement builder draws protest

    For Immediate Release September 21, New York, NY – More than a dozen human rights activists surprised an end of New York Fashion Week shindig hosted at the Madison Avenue diamond boutique of the notorious Israeli settlement builder Lev Leviev. Acting on an anonymous tip, activists from Adalah-NY gathered outside Leviev’s store shortly after highly-coutured […]

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  • New Yorkers call for boycott of Israeli dance troupe Batsheva

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, September 22, 2010 – About 40 protesters gathered this evening to call upon New Yorkers to boycott the Israeli dance troupe Batsheva Dance Company during their performances at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan. Backed by the music of the radical marching band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, demonstrators handed out programs […]

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