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New Video: Prominent artists call for cultural boycott of Israel
Adalah-NY, the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, launched a new video highlighting Amplify Palestine, its new cultural boycott campaign based in New York City. The video features eight artists with ties to New York supporting the cultural boycott of Israel. The video features actor Kathleen Chalfant; musician Roger Waters, a founding member […]
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USACBI: 10th anniversary of BDS and the struggle for decolonization of Palestine today
The end of 2015 marks the completion of the 10 year anniversary of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions on Israel. Launched to raise the level of international action against the violent and illegal Israeli colonization and occupation of Palestine in an effort to end it, BDS has won a steady stream of […]
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Brazilian star Caetano Veloso announces he will never go back to Israel
From the Palestinian Boycott National Committee: After performing in Tel Aviv, in defiance of Palestinian appeals not to help Israel use his name to cover up its regime of oppression, Caetano Veloso has now concluded that he will “never go back” to Israel. In an article entitled, “To visit Israel to never go back to […]
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PACBI: An open letter to J.K. Rowling from occupied Palestine: Don’t lend your name to Apartheid
The following letter was issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI): The BDS Campaign is a nonviolent, morally consistent strategy to hold Israel accountable for its violations of International law. Occupied Palestine October 30, 2015 Dear J. K. Rowling, We were disappointed to see your name on the […]
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What’s Behind the Explosions of Violence in Palestine? — The Destruction of Religious Sites and “Extrajudicial Executions” of Palestinian Teenagers
This article, by USACBI Organizing Collective member, Stanford professor David Palumbo-Liu, was published at the Huffington Post. It focuses on the systematic attacks on Palestinian youth and the drive to occupy and colonize Palestinian holy sites at the hands of the Israeli state: With this rash of summary executions of Palestinian youths, seemingly sanctioned by […]
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Powerful new video on Black-Palestinian Solidarity
For full materials, statement and resources, please see: Facebook: Black-Palestinian solidarity video Website: http://bit.ly/BPSolidarity Black-Palestinian solidarity is neither a guarantee nor a requirement – it is a choice. We choose to build with one another in a shoulder to shoulder struggle against state-sanctioned violence. A violence that is manifest in the speed of bullets and […]
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Solidarity with the Palestinian popular resistance! Boycott Israel now!
The following statement was released by the Palestinian Boycott National Committee: Whether the current phase of Israel”s intensified repression and Palestinian popular resistance will evolve into a full-fledged intifada or not, one thing is already evident–a new generation of Palestinians is marching on the footsteps of previous generations, rising up en masse against Israel”s brutal, […]
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SWANA Region Radio: Interviews on Academic Boycott and BDS
SWANA Region Radio on KPFK conducted two interviews on 28 September, focusing on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: the first, an interview with Lisa Taraki and Omar Barghouti on the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the second with Mitri Raheb, on Palestinian Christians today. Available on audio archive […]
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Remi Kanazi’s new book out now: Before the Next Bomb Drops
USACBI Organizing Collective member, poet and writer Remi Kanazi’s second collection of poetry, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine, was released on September 15 by Haymarket Books; it is available for order on Haymarket’s site: http://bit.ly/1GTcm4v It is also available on Amazon, including Kindle, in the US and globally: http://amzn.to/1IFFKqe Kanazi will be doing a 100-stop US/Canada […]
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Petition: Tell Kanye West: Don’t be “Heartless” – Don’t Play Apartheid Israel!
The following petition was created by Jews for Palestinian Right of Return. USACBI urges everyone to sign on to this petition and support this effort to build the cultural boycott of Israel. US artist Kanye West is scheduled to perform on September 30 in Apartheid Israel. There is still time to cancel this event: please […]
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