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USACBI letter calls on scientists to reject settlement university conference, support academic boycott of Israel
The following letter was sent to the invited participants of “Inflation, Alternatives and Gravitational Waves,” a conference taking place at Ariel University, a settler university constructed in an illegal settlement in the West Bank of occupied Palestine, from September 3-6, 2018. Initiated by USACBI Organizing Collective member and mathematician Prof. David Klein and signed by […]
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USACBI is outraged at the sentencing of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, calls for solidarity from artists, writers and cultural workers
We in the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel express our outrage at the sentencing of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour and call for solidarity from artists, writers and cultural workers around the world. On July 31, Tatour was sentenced to 5 months in Israeli prison for her writings online, including her […]
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Joint statement against ICE and Israeli attacks on families and children #StopICE #StopSeparatingFamilies
The following is a statement released by a coalition of Palestinian, immigrant and refugee rights organizations, led by USACBI. Organizations are invited to sign on to the statement below. To add your endorsement, please use the form or email usacbi@usacbi.org: June 22, 2018 We, the undersigned Palestinian, immigrant and refugee rights organizations led by the […]
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USACBI salutes cancellation of Argentina/Israel friendly match – time to ramp up sports boycott
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel salutes the campaigners for justice in Argentina, Palestine and around the world who achieved this important step. We thank the players of the Argentine national team who pushed to achieve this conclusion. International sports competition must not be allowed to be used as a means […]
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USACBI condemns Israeli massacres of Palestinians in Gaza
USACBI condemns in the strongest terms possible the brutal, inhumane, and calculated murders of more than 60 unarmed Palestinian protesters (including thirteen children) and the injuring of more than 2700 others on one day, Monday May 15. During the eight weeks of the Great March of Return so far, Israel’s forces killed 112 protesters and […]
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Letter to participants in Jerusalem chemistry conference calls them to join the academic boycott
The following letter was sent to the participants in “The Grand Challenges in the Chemical Sciences,” a conference taking place in Jerusalem from June 3-7, 2018. Sponsored by major Israeli academic institutions, including the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the conference is billed as a celebration of “the 70th birthday of the State of […]
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“The End of Exclusivity” by Nada Elia
USACBI Organizing Collective Nada Elia has published a new op-ed at Mondoweiss, in which she discusses the Great Return March and the ending framework of “exclusivity” that has governed discussion of Palestine in the West: “I believe the only unique aspect of the Palestine predicament is that it is a liberation struggle where criticizing the […]
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A Firsthand Account of Israel’s Siege on a Palestinian University
Cynthia Franklin, Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i and a member of the Organizing Collective of USACBI, wrote for Truthout on May 2 about her experience with Israeli repression of Palestinian universities during a two-week residency at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis. She writes: “Those of us fortunate enough not to have Israel’s […]
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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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