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Support USACBI
Dear BDS supporters, We did it! We scored a huge victory when, together with the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, we successfully appealed to Stevie Wonder to cancel his performance at the Friends of the IDF fundraiser in Los Angeles on December 6th. Our campaign has contributed to the global mainstreaming of cultural […]
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Twitter Action Alert! Stevie Wonder: Don’t Be a Part-Time Lover of Justice!
*please forward widely* http://wp.me/p1SPK5-2tV Will you tell Stevie Wonder to cancel his performance for Friends of the IDF? We are asking BDS supporters to get the word out and tell Motown musician Stevie Wonder to cancel his performance at a fundraiser for the Israeli army on 6 December 2012 in Los Angeles! Tweet the BDS […]
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InCACBI Statement on the India-Israel Free Trade Agreement
Do not talk free trade with a state that deprives Palestinians of free trade in their own lands! August 24, 2012 We, a group of academics, activists and artists in India, came together in 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the international campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. (Visit our websitewww.incacbi.in for […]
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English translation: BNC statement against Munib al-Masri normalization project
The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) in Arabic (original here) in response to the launch of an initiative, discussed here in Ha’aretz, by Palestinian billionaire Munib al-Masri and Israeli supermarket businessman Rami Levi (whose supermarkets sell numerous settlement products, as well as branches in most settlements). […]
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USACBI welcomes Fred Moten to its Organizing Collective
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is delighted to welcome Fred Moten, Helen L. Bevington Professor of Modern Poetry at Duke University and leading scholar, to its Organizing Committee. Fred Moten was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and educated at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of In the […]
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Social Text: The US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel: Unsettling Exceptionalisms
Social Text journal is launching an online dossier of articles by the members of the
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USACBI issues letter to university presidents after Israel tour
Prominent scholars and human rights activists issued an open letter (download PDF) to university presidents who participated in a recent tour (July 1-9, 2012) of Israel designed to bolster cooperation between US and Israeli universities sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, calling upon the university officials to “not…pursue institutional relationships between your universities and Israeli […]
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Asian American community organizations to CAAM: Support BDS, don’t partner with Israel
The following letter, by Asian American individuals and organizations, was written to the Center for Asian American Media to protest the Center’s sponsorship of the Israel China Film Festival, an event sponsored by the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. This letter joined the call from USACBI and a number of other organizations. Individual signatures to […]
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USACBI to CAAM: End sponsorship of Israel-China film festival
The following letter was sent to Stephen Gong, the Executive Director of the Center for Asian American Media, to protest the Israel-China Film Festival, on June 26-28 at the San Francisco Public Library, a partnership with the Israeli Consulate. This letter was initiated by USACBI and endorsed by numerous organizations and individuals, listed below. Click […]
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10,000 Signatures for Palestinian Rights
*please circulate widely* Will you sign this petition and tell the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cancel their trip to Israel? http://chn.ge/IS8S2j We are excited to announce that the petition calling on the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cancel their show in Israel has received over 3000 signatures! We are confident that with your support, we […]
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