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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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USACBI Newsletter: February 2015
USACBI Newsletter Volume 1, number 1 (February 2015)Published by the US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel http://usacbi.org USACBI Launches New Academic and Cultural Boycott Initiatives In the wake of a flurry of recent successful boycott and divestment votes, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) announces four […]
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Statement of Academics and Activists in Support of Divestment at UC Davis
The following statement by academics and activists, including members of the Organizing Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, was issued in support of students at the University of California, Davis, who successfully passed a resolution for divestment in support of Palestinian human rights in their university student senate […]
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USACBI condemns injustice and racism in Ferguson, supports protests for justice for Michael Brown
The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel condemns prosecutors, the State of Missouri, and the U.S. legal system as a whole for the blatant injustice and racism displayed in their failure to bring charges of murder against Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson for killing 18 year-old African American Michael Brown. Once […]
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