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USACBI condemns Book Culture’s appalling statement re Palestinian human rights
Book Culture”s statement distancing itself from politics and books related to justice in Palestine because of pressure from the rabbis at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (SWFS), which bills itself as “a beacon of progressive Jewish thought”, is an appalling development for a bookstore whose mission is “to represent as widely as we can the diverse […]
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USACBI condemns disgusting tactics of the Louis D. Brandeis Center
Photo: Dr Sunaina Maria of ASA lecturing on the nature of Zionist settler colonialism as a racist project at a conference on BDS: Strategic Actions for Justice. Her latest book, published by the University of California Press, is Boycott: The Academy and Justice for Palestine (2017) The movement for justice in Palestine and BDS campaigns around the country […]
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Federal Judge Will Dismiss “Lawfare” Suit Against SFSU and Professor Abdulhadi
Contact: Liz Jackson, Palestine Legal, 510-206-6800, ljackson@palestinelegal.org David Spero, Jewish for Peace, 415-987-1401, david.media.jvp@gmail.com San Francisco, Nov. 8, 2017 – A federal judge said he will dismiss a frivolous lawsuit demanding the censorship of scholarship and activism on Palestine at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Professor Rabab Abdulhadi and SFSU argued that the suit was an attempt to compel the university to […]
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York University Faculty Boycotts Israeli Academic Institution
USACBI commends the important action of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University as a critical example for academic departments in the United States and internationally by putting the academic boycott of Israel into practice. We also salute the tireless and ongoing campaigning of Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York (SAIA York) for Palestinian […]
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Now released in e-Book: Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine by Sunaina Maira
The new book by Sunaina Maira on the BDS campaign for Palestinian rights in the academy, “Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine” is now available as an e-Book from the University of California Press. The print editions of the book are available for pre-order and will be published in January 2018. Sunaina Maira, Professor […]
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Steven Salaita keynotes conference on academic freedom in Ireland
USACBI Note: This article by Irish Palestine solidarity activist Conor McCarthy focuses on a keynote address that USACBI OC member Steven Salaita delivered to a conference on academic freedom and the contemporary university in Dublin last September. But it also shows the intimate links between our organizing for BDS and the resistance of students and […]
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Sign on: Solidarity with Bill Mullen
The USACBI Organizing Collective seeks signatures from college and university students, faculty, and staff in support of the following open statement. You need not be an endorser of USACBI to sign onto this statement, even as we invite you to endorse the USACBI call here if you haven”t yet done so. Please sign and share […]
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Purdue’s president takes aim at the left
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) expresses its utmost solidarity with our comrade and colleague, Bill Mullen, a member of the Organizing Collective of USACBI, in the face of these false and malicious attacks by Mitch Daniels. This attack is yet another chapter in the ongoing right-wing, Zionist and […]
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Can’t discuss Palestine on campus? Then disaffiliate.
Note: In addition to all that Steven Salaita recommends here, USACBI encourages professors who are tenured to add any articles they write on Palestine to their cvs and/or promotion/merit files. In this way, we make our administrations and colleagues get used to having to evaluate such work and accept it as legitimate academic or public scholarship. We […]
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USACBI denounces racist poster campaign targeting professors and students
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel condemns in the strongest terms the posters of the David Horowitz so-called “Freedom Center” that have been plastered on campuses including San Francisco State University, the University of California – Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Including caricatures of individual professors and well-known advocates of Palestinian […]
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