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Words without Borders “dialogue” violates Palestinian boycott call
Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada, 9 August 2010 An initiative recently launched by the prestigious online literature magazine Words without Borders entitled “Cross-Cultural-Dialogues in the Middle East,” rings alarm bells in light of the Palestinian civil society call for boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel. The initiators of this series of articles are Azareen […]
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Interview: “Israel has turned Gaza into the largest concentration camp in history”
Sunday, 25 July 2010 Interview with Haidar Eid Founding member of the PCACBI (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel). ____________________________ The world was appalled by the Israeli massacre at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. But then Gaza disappeared from Western news media. What is the situation today […]
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Al-Quds University flouts own academic boycott
Jillian Kestler-D’Amours, The Electronic Intifada, 6 August 2010 Al-Quds University is maintaining a joint Israeli-Palestinian master’s degree program with Haifa, Hebrew and Tel Aviv universities, despite a decision taken by its own University Council in February 2009 to distance itself from Israeli academic institutions. “[The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, […]
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Call to support PACBI members conference travel expenses
I am forwarding this message from BRICUP – please help if you can. Support is needed for a European initiative. AURDIP, BRICUP”s French sister organisation, is convening a conference on academic boycott in Paris this coming September 25-6. The aim is to bring together the several organisations in Italy, Catalonia, Britain and France now in […]
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BNC welcomes actions to mark fifth anniversary of BDS call
15 July 2010 Occupied Palestine – On July 9 2010, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) marked the fifth anniversary of the Palestinian Civil Society Call for a campaign of BDS against Israel until it fully complies with international law and Palestinian rights. The BNC issued a statement highlighting the massive growth […]
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SAPIENZA MASTER’S FOR ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS: OPPRESSION NORMALIZED
PSCABI UTAP Besieged Gaza, Palestine 06. July.2010 PRESS RELEASE Over and over again, champions of the boycott movement have condemned cooperation with apartheid Israel in acts of normalization. We, the Palestinian Students Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel and the University Teachers’ Association in Palestine, have adamantly and insistently written to artists, musicians, writers […]
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Student council calls on peers to support goods boycott
Nablus – Ma’an – University student councils offered their full support for the Palestinian Authority boycott of settlement goods on Wednesday, vowing to ensure students implement the embargo. Head of the An-Najah University student senate Makram Daraghmeh said all Palestinian universities would organize events and activties in the coming days, aimed at encouraging students to […]
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Gaza student denied travel to conference
Published today (updated) 17/05/2010 19:11 Bethlehem – Ma’an – A Palestinian student from Gaza was barred from traveling on Monday to an international conference in the Czech Republic due to the ongoing closure of the coastal enclave’s borders. Rifat Abd Elaal, an engineering student at the Islamic University in Gaza, was due to attend the […]
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