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Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel
http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1442 It is with great disappointment that the undersigned organizations learned of your scheduled performance in Israel set for 2011 as part of your “Circle Tour” [1]. Given that Israel is involved in grave violations of international law and human rights, particularly as indicated in the UN Goldstone Report, we urge you to cancel this gig […]
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Tell Felix Da Housecat: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel!
We have learned that American artist, Felix Da Housecat, is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on December 12th, 2010. We have sent a letter asking him to join the BDS movement but we need your help in getting the word to him, since his performance is scheduled in only a week. Please help us […]
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USACBI on Professor Lisa Taraki’s US Visit
The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel [USACBI] is proud to host Professor Lisa Taraki during her tour of the United States. In addition to her academic work as a sociologist at Birzeit University in Palestine on aspects of Palestinian society, politics and urban social history, she has been an activist […]
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US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – Bulletin No. 1
Click here to read our first newsletter!
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Press Release: USACBI Announces Over 500 Academics Have Endorsed the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) http://usacbi.wordpress.com/ Over 500 academics have endorsed USACBI! “We have to be careful not to over-exaggerate on this, but we also have to be careful not to ignore it,” said Gerald Steinberg, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University and co-founder of the International […]
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Statement Condemning Disciplinary Action against the Irvine 11 and the Recommendation to Suspend the UC-Irvine Muslim Student Union
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) www.usacbi.org uscom4acbi[at]gmail.com On the 8th of February, 2010, Israeli ambassador Michael Oren visited the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to give a lecture on US-Israeli relations. During his speech, a number of UC students, all of them Arab or Muslim, stood up to voice […]
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Open Letter in Support of the Boycott of Arizona by the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
27 June 2010 The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) endorses and supports the call for Boycott of Arizona on account of its manifestly racist laws, HB1070 and SB 2281. SB1070 calls for police officers to require documentation from people to establish resident status. The law essentially requires police to […]
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USACBI’s Advisory Board Member Tutu Attacked by ADL
Archbishop Desmond Tutu ‘Poor Choice’ for Commencement Ceremonies New York, NY, April 6, 2009 … Citing his long history as a strident critic of Israel and his vocal support for anti-Israel boycotts, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said that Archbishop Desmond Tutu was a “poor choice” to deliver the commencement addresses at Michigan State University […]
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Challenging Israeli Impunity: The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement
RADIO INTIFADA intifada=shaking off – oppression/silence Voices from Kolkata to Casablanca Voices of struggle, Voices for change Thursday, March 26, 2009 3-4pm PST KPFK/Pacifica Radio 90.7 fm, Los Angeles Streaming at kpfk.org available on audio archive for 90 days Following in the footsteps of the BDS movement against the South African apartheid regime, citizens around […]
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The intellectual boycott of Israel hits the United States
By BR-News on March 20, 2009 In late January, a group of American university professors launched the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, the first American effort of its kind. Part of the broader Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel, the boycott calls for its adherents to, among other […]
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