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New Social Text Periscope on The Academic Boycott Movement
This special Periscope online issue of Social Text Journal was co-edited by Sunaina Maira, of the Steering Collective of USACBI, and Neferti X. Tadiar, of USACBI’s Advisory Board. The full issue is available here: http://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_topic/the-academic-boycott-movement/ As Maira and Tadiar note, “This periscope brings together political analyses of the academic boycott as a global movement, from different […]
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Sign On Open Letter: Faculty Support for Professor Abdulhadi and Campus Advocates for Justice in/for Palestine at San Francisco State University
The following letter was launched by faculty at San Francisco State University following racist attacks against Professor Rabab Abdulhadi and the General Union of Palestinian Students at SFSU. The letter demands that university administration act to defend faculty and students against racist attacks clearly and unambiguously, as well as to provide much-needed and long-denied institutional […]
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California Scholars for Academic Freedom Lay Out Recent History of Assaults on Universities Regarding Academic Freedom, the Right of Free Speech and Dissent
October 5, 2016: CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM (CS4AF)**, a group of over 200 scholars at twenty California institutions of higher learning, urge a renewed and strong support by university administrators for academic freedom and the right to free speech and dissent in light of an alarming recent history of assaults on academic freedom. On […]
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USACBI statement of solidarity with Purdue advocates for justice in Palestine
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel denounces in the strongest terms possible the recent vicious attacks on those at Purdue University advocating for Palestinian rights. As has been reported previously by Palestine Legal and Jewish Voice for Peace, attacks on pro-Palestinian activists have increased on a national scale, with members of […]
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Over 100 Writers Call on PEN American Center to Reject Israeli Government Sponsorship
USACBI is an organizational signatory of this letter, hosted by Adalah NY: New York, NY, April 5, 2016 – In a letter made public today over 100 writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Díaz, Richard Ford, and Alice Walker, and award-winning author Louise Erdrich, have called on the PEN American Center “to reject support from the Embassy of Israel” for PEN”s annual World Voices […]
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“Dialogue” Isn’t enough: On the American Anthropological Association Vote.
Article in Salon explaining BDS as a rights-based anti-colonial movement helping to set conditions for national liberation.
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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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The Iran Deal: How Far Will Americans Go to Extend “Special Status” to Israel?
This article connects the debates around the Iran deal to changes in American attitudes toward Israel and possible effects on the ways we organize and advocate for BDS. It includes interviews with Mouin Rabbani and Diana Buttu.
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New Resource: USACBI Pamphlet for Students on Academic Boycott of Israel
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is making available a new resource, designed especially for students on US campuses who are working for justice and liberation for Palestine. The new pamphlet (available for download here) provides an overview of USACBI’s work and helpful suggestions and examples of organizing students can […]
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