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Zoom wants to censor Leila Khaled again – join us October 23 to defend academic freedom and Palestinian rights!
Just this afternoon, the webinar organized at the University of Hawai’i for this Friday, October 23, featuring a message from Leila Khaled – part of We Will Not Be Silenced: the National Day of Action Against the Criminalization and Censorship of Campus Speech – was suddenly cancelled, pulled from the Zoom platform after a series […]
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Join the growing list of events: We Will Not Be Silenced – October 23 National Day of Action
Campuses across North America are joining in the campaign to resist corporate and university silencing of Palestinian narratives and Palestinian voices. On October 23, join us to host a webinar via your campus’ Zoom account, including a video of Leila Khaled, to make it clear that we will not be silenced. It’s not too late […]
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Call to Action October 23: We Will Not Be Silenced! Against the Criminalization and Censorship Of Campus Political Speech
We Will Not Be Silenced: Against the Criminalization and Censorship Of Campus Political Speech As you may know, on September 23rd, corporate tech giants Zoom, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube acted in lockstep with San Francisco State University (SFSU) to shut down an open classroom webinar entitled “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice, & Resistance: A Conversation with […]
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Film screening, October 15: The Lobby – U.S.A. / Discussion: In Defense of Solidarity – Palestine on Campus
USACBI is joining Jewish Voice for Peace for an important film screening and discussion, especially at this time of confronting censorship and silencing of Palestinian expression. We will be screening a one-hour supercut and panel discussion of Al Jazeera’s The Lobby – USA, a look into the counterinsurgency projects designed to disrupt Palestine solidarity movement building. This supercut […]
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Action alert: Sign the petition – Whose classrooms? Censorship, corporate media, and the suppression of academic freedom
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel supports this petition, which comes in response to egregious assault on academic freedom that happened on September 23, 2020, at SFSU. Signing the petition is intended to demonstrate academic solidarity with Palestine, Palestinian feminist narratives, and in the defense of academic freedom. The link […]
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#WeStandWithNerdeen: CUNY must respect Palestinian rights
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel expresses its strongest solidarity with Nerdeen Kiswani, Palestinian activist, law student and chair of Within Our Lifetime – United for Palestine. USACBI was honored to host Nerdeen earlier this summer in our webinar series, where her incisive analysis and commitment to justice was an […]
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USACBI stands with Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi and Leila Khaled
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) declares its unflinching support for San Francisco State University Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, who has come under recent attack for hosting an upcoming webinar discussion with celebrated Palestinian freedom fighter Leila Khaled. The right-wing, Zionist attacks on Prof. Abdulhadi, her advocacy for Arab and […]
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Prof. Homi Bhabha withdraws from Israel Sociological Society conference
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel thanks Prof. Homi Bhabha for his principled decision to withdraw from participation in the Israel Sociological Society (ISS) conference, where he had been invited to deliver the keynote address. As he noted in his withdrawal statement, “I have decided that it is not only […]
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Sept. 15, Washington, DC: NO to Israel/UAE Normalization. Free Palestine!
Tuesday, September 15 10 am – 3 pm The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC, US Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2385385028432836/ USACBI is a part of this coalition of almost 50 organizations co-sponsoring this protest in opposition to the US-brokered normalization treaty between the UAE and Israel. There should be NO normalization with occupation and colonization! This […]
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Video: BDS, Capitalism, Colonialism and the Climate Crisis – Connecting the Dots
The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) organized the third session of its webinar series, “BDS, Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Climate Crisis: Connecting the Dots,” on Wednesday, September 9, 2020. Speakers: Max Ajl (researcher at Wageningen University and author of A People’s Green Deal, forthcoming from Pluto Press) Mazin Qumsiyeh […]
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