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USACBI Congratulates and Thanks the Critical Ethnic Studies Association and the African Literature Association for Endorsing the Academic Boycott of Israel!
USACBI Congratulates and Thanks the Critical Ethnic Studies Association and the African Literature Association for Endorsing the Academic Boycott of Israel! The US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) congratulates both the Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) and the African Literature Association (ALA) following their recent, respective announcements to heed the […]
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Statement in Support of Cultural Boycott
We, the undersigned US artists and cultural workers, condemn the current Israeli attack and aggression on Gaza and commit to support the Palestinian call for the cultural boycott of Israel. We also add our voices in support of the ‘Solidarity with Gaza’ statement from Palestinian artists, cultural workers and performing arts organizations, which reads: ‘While governments […]
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Critical Ethnic Studies Association passes BDS resolution supporting academic boycott
On July 18, 2014, the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, joining academic associations like the American Studies Association, the Association for Asian American Studies, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, passed an important resolution endorsing the academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Thanks and salutes to CESA for their strong resolution and refusal to […]
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As bombs fall on Gaza, take action: Endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel
Once again, Israel has launched a massive bombing campaign, killing and injuring hundreds of innocent Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza, while viciously racist mobs incited by the government and religious leaders have gone on a violent rampage in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israel”s most recent military assault on Gaza, a densely-populated besieged area, where children make up over 50% of the […]
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Debate, dissent, and divisive politics: Boycott as academic freedom
By Heike Schotten. Original link: http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=708696 It started out like every other university’s response. Or, at least, that’s how it seemed at the time. As you may recall, last December, the American Studies Association voted to uphold the academic boycott of Israeli universities. Although the ASA was not the first professional academic association to do so, […]
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USACBI condemns Israeli attacks on Palestinian universities
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) condemns the recent Israeli closures of three Palestinian institutions of higher education, Al Quds University (Jerusalem), the Arab American University (Jenin), and Birzeit University. The Israeli military physically invaded each institution, but besides these direct acts of aggression, the recent attacks of the Israeli […]
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USABI congratulates MLA on step forward in supporting Palestinian rights
USABI congratulates The Modern Language Association (MLA) on its step forward in supporting Palestinian rights. The MLA, North America”s largest association of humanities scholars, just announced results of a resolution calling on the US Department of State to contest Israel”s denials of entry to the Palestinian West Bank to US academics who have been invited […]
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Human Rights Groups Accuse NBC of Deceit About DIG Filming Locations in Occupied East Jerusalem
Contact Sydney Levy at sydney@jewishvoiceforpeace.org or Ramah Kudaimi at membership@endtheoccupation.org. Washington, DC– As Palestinians mark 47 years of Israel”s military occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, human rights groups are accusing NBC of complicity in Israel”s violations of international law and human rights by filming its new series DIG in occupied East […]
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International Keynote speakers at two Israeli conferences withdraw in reaction to BDS calls
The recent success of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in deterring leading academics from participating in Israeli conferences is a marked move forward towards removing academic respectability from Israeli institutions, and persuading more academics to refrain from collaborating with the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime. Two conferences scheduled for June 2014 have now […]
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Education Kills Fascists
By Heike Schotten. Original link: http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=685102 Remember back in 2010 when Israel denied Noam Chomsky entry into the West Bank? All the bureaucratic scurrying in the world and embarrassed tsk-tsking about “misunderstandings” with the Interior Ministry could not mitigate the transparently outrageous fact that Israel actively prevented a soft-spoken, aging academic from delivering a public lecture […]
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