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USACBI: Susan Abulhawa must be released now!
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel denounces in the strongest terms the exclusion of renowned author and Palestinian rights defender Susan Abulhawa from occupied Palestine. Abulhawa, a member of the Organizing Collective of USACBI, the author of Mornings in Jenin and The Blue Between Sky and Water and the founder […]
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Tell Ballet BC – Don’t Dance on the Ruins of Palestinian Childhood
Please take action: Sign the Petition and call on Ballet BC in Canada to cancel planned performances in Israel! An Open Letter to Ballet BC regarding their Performances in Israel By Marion Kawas – republished from the Canada Palestine Association October 2, 2018 John Clark, Executive Director executivedirector@balletbc.com Dear Mr. Clark: As a young child, my mother […]
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New Activist Toolkit Released: Boycott Study Abroad in Israel Campaign
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel has launched a new activist toolkit for students and others to use when creating campaigns to Boycott Study Abroad in Israel on their campuses and in their communities. The toolkit contains an array of useful resources and information, from tips on researching a campaign […]
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USACBI condemns British Labour Party’s adoption of IHRA’s “antisemitism definition”
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) condemns the British Labour Party’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance “definition of antisemitism.” The adoption serves only the interests of the Zionist enablers of Israel’s apartheid state. It is an attempt to exclude entirely from British politics, and especially the […]
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USACBI is outraged at the sentencing of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, calls for solidarity from artists, writers and cultural workers
We in the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel express our outrage at the sentencing of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour and call for solidarity from artists, writers and cultural workers around the world. On July 31, Tatour was sentenced to 5 months in Israeli prison for her writings online, including her […]
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USACBI salutes cancellation of Argentina/Israel friendly match – time to ramp up sports boycott
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel salutes the campaigners for justice in Argentina, Palestine and around the world who achieved this important step. We thank the players of the Argentine national team who pushed to achieve this conclusion. International sports competition must not be allowed to be used as a means […]
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Call for Submissions: BILADI, BILADI zine to support academic and cultural boycott
Reprinted from Bigmouth Comix. We encourage USACBI supporters to submit to this zine! See below and the original link for contact information: Call for submissions: BILADI, BILADI A transnational zine for the cultural and academic boycott of Israel Calling all Palestinian artists and artists in solidarity with Palestine! We are seeking submissions for a zine […]
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15 minutes of interruption at Bozar, 70 years of colonization in Palestine
We are reprinting below, in English and the original French, a press release issued by BDS activists in Brussels who disrupted a performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra on Thursday, 24 May. The disruption comes amid an ongoing and active campaign by Philly Don’t Orchestrate Apartheid, which has organized open letters, actions and a series of […]
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USACBI condemns Book Culture’s appalling statement re Palestinian human rights
Book Culture”s statement distancing itself from politics and books related to justice in Palestine because of pressure from the rabbis at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (SWFS), which bills itself as “a beacon of progressive Jewish thought”, is an appalling development for a bookstore whose mission is “to represent as widely as we can the diverse […]
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For the People Artists Collective endorses Cultural Boycott of Israel
For the People Artists Collective is a radical collective of Black artists and artists of color in Chicago. “As artists who organize, it is our duty to create work that uplifts and projects struggle, resistance, liberation, and survival within and for our marginalized communities and movements in our city and our world,” says the Collective. […]
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