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Audio: USACBI’s David Lloyd on academic boycott and the Steven Salaita case
David Lloyd, professor at the University of California at Riverside, and member of the USACBI Organizing Committee, was interviewed on two radio shows on September 12, speaking on the academic boycott and the case of fellow USACBI OC member and targeted Palestinian American scholar Steven Salaita: KDVS Speaking in Tongues, with Richard Estes, host – […]
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USACBI Congratulates and Thanks the Critical Ethnic Studies Association and the African Literature Association for Endorsing the Academic Boycott of Israel!
USACBI Congratulates and Thanks the Critical Ethnic Studies Association and the African Literature Association for Endorsing the Academic Boycott of Israel! The US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) congratulates both the Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) and the African Literature Association (ALA) following their recent, respective announcements to heed the […]
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As bombs fall on Gaza, take action: Endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel
Once again, Israel has launched a massive bombing campaign, killing and injuring hundreds of innocent Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza, while viciously racist mobs incited by the government and religious leaders have gone on a violent rampage in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israel”s most recent military assault on Gaza, a densely-populated besieged area, where children make up over 50% of the […]
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USACBI condemns Israeli attacks on Palestinian universities
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) condemns the recent Israeli closures of three Palestinian institutions of higher education, Al Quds University (Jerusalem), the Arab American University (Jenin), and Birzeit University. The Israeli military physically invaded each institution, but besides these direct acts of aggression, the recent attacks of the Israeli […]
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USABI congratulates MLA on step forward in supporting Palestinian rights
USABI congratulates The Modern Language Association (MLA) on its step forward in supporting Palestinian rights. The MLA, North America”s largest association of humanities scholars, just announced results of a resolution calling on the US Department of State to contest Israel”s denials of entry to the Palestinian West Bank to US academics who have been invited […]
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Human Rights Groups Accuse NBC of Deceit About DIG Filming Locations in Occupied East Jerusalem
Contact Sydney Levy at sydney@jewishvoiceforpeace.org or Ramah Kudaimi at membership@endtheoccupation.org. Washington, DC– As Palestinians mark 47 years of Israel”s military occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, human rights groups are accusing NBC of complicity in Israel”s violations of international law and human rights by filming its new series DIG in occupied East […]
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International Keynote speakers at two Israeli conferences withdraw in reaction to BDS calls
The recent success of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in deterring leading academics from participating in Israeli conferences is a marked move forward towards removing academic respectability from Israeli institutions, and persuading more academics to refrain from collaborating with the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime. Two conferences scheduled for June 2014 have now […]
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This is what an academic boycott looks like: Two new campaigns target conferences hosted by Israeli universities
Recent decisions by prestigious US academic organizations to support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement have sparked long neglected public discussion of the limits of academic freedom in the West, the deleterious effects of occupation on Palestinians, including university students and faculty, and Israel”s human rights abuses against Palestinians on both sides of the […]
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Boycott Israel Movement Erupts in the US Academy: A Statement on the ASA vote to endorse the academic boycott of Israeli Universities
USACBI congratulates the American Studies Association (ASA) for its unprecedented vote endorsing the Palestinian call for an academic boycott of Israeli universities. The overwhelming support of the ASA membership who voted by a significant margin (66.05% “yes” to 30.5% “no”) in favor of the academic boycott resolution is sending shockwaves through US academia and the media. This […]
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USACBI Congratulates the American Studies Association for Endorsement of Academic Boycott of Israel
December 16, 2013 – The US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) congratulates the American Studies Association following today”s announcement that its membership has endorsed the Association”s participation in a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. In an election that attracted 1252 voters, the largest number of participants in such a referendum in the history of the organization, […]
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