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USACBI joins Rights Groups to tell Universities Across the U.S. to Stand Up For Students and Faculty Under Attack
USACBI joined Palestine Legal and 13 national civil rights and social justice groups to write to 280 U.S. universities this week to demand that they take forceful action to protect free speech in response to targeted harassment by right-wing Israel advocacy groups. The letter describes the climate of suppression targeting students and faculty who are vocal supporters […]
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USACBI Condemns Israel’s Land Day Massacre
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) condemns the brutal premeditated massacre by the state of Israel of 17 unarmed Palestinians, and the injuring of more than 1,400 on March 30, 2018. Israeli Occupation Forces opened fire on thousands of non-violent residents of Gaza who had established peaceful encampments […]
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We Will not Study in Israel Until Palestinians Can Return: Boycott Study Abroad in Israel!
We Will not Study in Israel Until Palestinians Can Return: Boycott Study Abroad in Israel! Sign here to take the pledge. The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) calls on all US faculty, administrators, students and staff to uphold the academic boycott of Israel by refusing participation in Study Abroad programs […]
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We are not Free until the Palestinians are Free: Boycott Study Abroad in Israel!
Boycott study abroad in Israel! Sign here to take the pledge. The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) calls on all US faculty, administrators, students and staff to uphold the ongoing international academic boycott of Israel by refusing participation in any way in Study Abroad programs there. The academic boycott […]
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USACBI Condemns Israel Litmus Tests for Faculty Speech
It is no secret that campuses are the new battlefront in the war for public opinion on Palestine/Israel. Just how much so has become very clear recently at the University of Houston, in Texas. Texas is one of more than 20 states that have passed anti-BDS legislation. Although there are a few different versions of this legislation, in […]
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The Academy and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement
By Sunaina Maira, author of Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine, member of the Steering Committee of USACBI Republished from: https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/34543/the-academy-and-the-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-movement/ On December 6, 2017, Donald Trump shocked the international community by unilaterally declaring that the U.S. had anointed Jerusalem the capital of Israel, a city illegally occupied by Israel since the 1967 war. The status 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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Federal Judge Will Dismiss “Lawfare” Suit Against SFSU and Professor Abdulhadi
Contact: Liz Jackson, Palestine Legal, 510-206-6800, ljackson@palestinelegal.org David Spero, Jewish for Peace, 415-987-1401, david.media.jvp@gmail.com San Francisco, Nov. 8, 2017 – A federal judge said he will dismiss a frivolous lawsuit demanding the censorship of scholarship and activism on Palestine at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Professor Rabab Abdulhadi and SFSU argued that the suit was an attempt to compel the university to […]
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Sign on: Solidarity with Bill Mullen
The USACBI Organizing Collective seeks signatures from college and university students, faculty, and staff in support of the following open statement. You need not be an endorser of USACBI to sign onto this statement, even as we invite you to endorse the USACBI call here if you haven”t yet done so. Please sign and share […]
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USACBI denounces racist poster campaign targeting professors and students
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel condemns in the strongest terms the posters of the David Horowitz so-called “Freedom Center” that have been plastered on campuses including San Francisco State University, the University of California – Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Including caricatures of individual professors and well-known advocates of Palestinian […]
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