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CAIA Condemns Canadian Government for defunding pro-Palestinian Organizations
The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) condemns in the strongest terms the recent actions of the Canadian government to defund and slander various pro-Palestinian organizations. In what looks like a full-fledged war that the Harper Government has declared on everything and everyone related to Palestine, the Harper Government continues to cut funding and restrict the […]
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PACBI Clarification concerning its statement “Intellectual Responsibility and the Voice of the Colonized”
PACBI | 19 February 2010 PACBI”s recent statement entitled “Intellectual Responsibility and the Voice of the Colonized [1],” which criticizes the research project that led to the publication of the book, The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories [2], has stirred a healthy debate and mostly constructive discussion […]
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Intellectual Responsibility and the Voice of the Colonized
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has recently encountered a number of projects that while intending to empower the colonized Palestinians, in essence end up undermining their will and choice of method of struggle for freedom, justice and self determination. The publication of a new book entitled The Power […]
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Is Israel Arresting Prominent Boycott Leaders?
By Benjamin Joffe-Walt, The Media Line, 8 October 2009 Palestinians claim detainee is the first political prisoner arrested solely for promoting a boycott of Israel. Israel has extended the detention of a West Bank campaigner said by activist groups to be the first Palestinian to be imprisoned solely for advocacy of international boycotts against Israel. […]
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The Netanyahu-Fayyad “economic peace” one year on
Ziyaad Lunat, The Electronic Intifada, 10 February 2010 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was elected on a platform of “economic peace” with Palestinians in the West Bank. He contended that developing the Palestinian economy, by providing Palestinians with jobs and a better living stands, would render the “problems” between Israelis and Palestinians “more accessible for […]
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Boycott “Ariel” and the Rest! All Israeli Academic Institutions are Complicit in Occupation and Apartheid
In response to the recent decision by the Israeli government to upgrade the status of the so-called Ariel University Center of Samaria (AUCS) to a full university, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) reiterates its call for a boycott of AUCS and all other Israeli academic institutions due to […]
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Badil Releases Paper on Potential Avenues to Challenge Corporate: Involvement in Israel’s Oppression of the Palestinian People
4 February 2010 – BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights has released new working paper under the title: “Principles and Mechanisms to Hold Business Accountable for Human Rights Abuses: Potential Avenues to Challenge Corporate Involvement in Israel”s Oppression of the Palestinian People.” The paper is authored by U.S. attorney Yasmine Gado. About […]
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Join the Second Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2010
The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to unite in your different capacities and struggles for a Global BDS Day of Action on 30 March 2010 in solidarity with the Palestinian people and for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The BNC calls on people of conscience and their organizations around the […]
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Jerusalem’s first light rail is test case in Palestinian boycott campaign
By Karin Laub (CP) – 1 day ago JERUSALEM – Jerusalem’s first light rail starts test runs this spring, with its sleek silver cars gliding across the city and promising to relieve the perpetual congestion. But Palestinians see no reason to celebrate. They hope to derail the $1 billion tram because they fear it will […]
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Don’t be Complicit in Israel’s Apartheid: Boycott the 2010 Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Students” Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) call on students, lecturers and film-makers to boycott the 13th International Student Film Festival, scheduled for June 2010 in the city of Tel Aviv. PACBI and PSCABI believe that this festival, […]
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