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USACBI stands in solidarity with Black struggle in Baltimore
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel stands in solidarity with Baltimore protestors against police brutality and state violence directed against African Americans. The murder of 25 year-old Freddie Gray by Baltimore Police is only the latest outrage in a long history of rampant racism and violence endured by disproportionately […]
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Write a fan letter to Lauryn Hill asking her to honor the Palestinian call for boycott!
Ms. Lauryn Hill is set to perform in Israel on 7 May 2015. The presence of artists is routinely used by Israel to legitimize its policies and maintain its reputation as a normal member of the international community. Just as during the struggle against South African apartheid artists were expected not to cross the picket […]
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National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies endorses boycott of Israeli academic institutions
USACBI warmly congratulates the membership of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies on adopting a resolution in support of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions with a unanimous vote. The National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference took place in San Francisco from April 15-18, 2015. The business meeting, open to […]
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Professor Noura Erakat delivers keynote Women’s History Month address at CSU Fullerton
In what is surely a first for BDS activism in the United States, Palestinian Human Rights lawyer and activist, Professor Noura Erakat was among those welcomed by a University President to deliver a public talk on Palestine. Professor Erakat spoke at California State University, Fullerton, on March 3, 2015 as the keynote speaker for the […]
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Action Alert: Tell Ms. Lauryn Hill to cancel her scheduled concert!
Ms. Lauryn Hill, an American singer–songwriter, rapper, and former member of the Fugees, is set to perform in Israel on May 7, 2015. Sign the petition (www.endtheoccupation.org/laurynhill) to call on her to respect the Palestinian call to boycott Israel and not cross the picket line. Read the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott […]
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Israeli elections: USACBI Provides a Way Forward
The re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu to a fourth term as Prime Minister of Israel on a platform explicitly hostile and racist to Palestinian citizens of Israel and to Palestinian sovereignty makes starkly clear the necessity for a new way forward. Despite the occasional verbal condemnation of Netanyahu”s antics in front of the Republican-led House of Representatives, the […]
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New “Biography” issue examines “Life in Occupied Palestine”
USACBI Organizing Collective member Cynthia Franklin, with her colleagues Morgan Cooper and Ibrahim G. Aoudé have co-edited a newly released special issue of Biography, examining “Life in Occupied Palestine.” The special journal issue was launched in Palestine with events at Al-Quds University, Bir Zeit University, the MADA Center, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, and others; it has been […]
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UC Davis faculty members urge implementation of divestment
The following statement from faculty members at the University of California – including USACBI Organizing Collective members Sunaina Maira and David Lloyd – published in the Daily Cal on March 6, urges the UC Davis administration to heed the call of the Associated Students at UC Davis for divesting from certain corporations that are involved […]
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USACBI congratulates the students and staff of SOAS on academic boycott endorsement
USACBI extends its warmest congratulations to the students and staff at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for endorsing an academic boycott of Israel through the passage of a referendum that also was supported by PACBI and Palestinian student and academic unions. That 73% of the 2,056 votes cast between February 23-27, 2015 […]
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USACBI mourns the lives and denounces racist murder of three Arab Muslim students
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) mourns the lives and expresses condemnation of the murder of three Arab Muslim students at the University of North Carolina on February 10. 23-year-old Deah Shaddy Barakat, who was Syrian American, his 21-year-old Palestinian American wife, Yusor Mohammad, and her sister, 19-year-old Razan […]
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