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Statement on Israel’s Latest Repression of Palestinian Universities
The Organizing Collective for the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) writes in support of Birzeit University’s call to action “to defend the Palestinian people’s right to education, free from duress, intervention, and political persecution.” We invite you to join us in heeding their call to “Work with us to […]
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Sign On — Protect SFSU faculty members’ academic freedom: Demand SFSU President Lynn Mahoney Resign
PROTECT SFSU FACULTY MEMBERS’ ACADEMIC FREEDOM: DEMAND THAT SFSU PRESIDENT LYNN MAHONEY RESIGN Click here to sign on On September 23, 2020, San Francisco State University (SFSU) administrators collaborated with corporate tech giants Zoom, Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube to shut down a virtual Open Classroom entitled “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice, & Resistance: A Conversation with […]
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USACBI salutes Sally Rooney for her support for Palestinian rights and the cultural boycott of Israel
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel salutes Irish writer Sally Rooney for supporting the Palestinian and global picket line against apartheid and colonialism. Rooney declined to sell the Hebrew-language translation rights to her latest novel, Beautiful People, Where Are You?, to an Israeli publisher. She did so explicitly in support […]
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Video and Take Action: We Will Not Be Silenced: Defending Palestine, Academic Freedom and Anti-Colonial Pedagogy: A Community Teach-In
https://youtu.be/3MaS_omiHCc On Tuesday, 28 September, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel hosted a webinar, “We Will Not Be Silenced: Defending Palestine, Academic Freedom and Anti-Colonial Pedagogy: A Community Teach-In.” The event featured a conversation with Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, Prof. Tomomi Kinukawa and Omar Zahzah on two grievances filed against San […]
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Victory for Academic Freedom in Canada! (But bittersweet): University of Toronto Censure
The USACBI Organizing Collective sends its salutes and congratulations to Censure U of T and all of the scholars and activists who have worked so hard, through the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) censure of the University of Toronto, and the support for the censure by scholars around the world, to ensure that there is not […]
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Military Embargo on Israel: Over 100 organizations sign call for comprehensive arms embargo
The US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is a signatory of the following letter, calling for a comprehensive two-way arms embargo on Israel: that is, no arms sales to Israel or purchase of Israeli weapons. The U.S. provides at least $3.8 billion annually in military aid and support to the Israeli occupation. […]
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Defend academic freedom on Palestine: Support the censure of the University of Toronto
Earlier this academic year, the University of Toronto made an abrupt decision to block the hiring of Dr. Valentina Azarova to head its Faculty of Law’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP), following the intervention of a major donor who objected to Dr. Azarova’s scholarship on the Israeli state’s violations of the human rights of Palestinians. This trampling […]
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A Call to Action for Palestine Under Attack: Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
The scenes in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, Gaza, and throughout occupied Palestine ‘48 have driven home the point clearly to people around the world: The Israeli settler-colonial project is one of systematic, massive violence targeting the Palestinian people. As we mourn the at least 153 lives taken so far this past week throughout occupied Palestine and […]
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Joint Statement by Palestinians in North America: Nakba 73 – Ongoing Nakba, Ongoing Resistance
As we mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, we, the undersigned, join together to reaffirm our commitment to the Palestinian people’s struggle for justice, return, and liberation. We commemorate the loss experienced by Palestinians in 1948 when hundreds of thousands of our people were forced into exile and saw their homes and villages stolen […]
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Video: Weaponizing Anti-Semitism: IHRA and the End of the Palestine Exception – USACBI Webinar
https://youtu.be/vQH4DW_GNoY On Tuesday, April 6, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel hosted a webinar on “Weaponizing Anti-Semitism: IHRA and Ending the Palestine Exception.” Featured speakers at the event were Dima Khalidi of Palestine Legal, Prof. Richard Falk, Prof. Cornel West and composer Raymond Deane. Nura Bawab, a student at the […]
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