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Amidst Israel Boycott Calls, Alicia Keys Removes Palestinian Women’s Youtube Protest Video
For Immediate Release For media inquiries, email sasha@usacbi.org June 26, 2013, New York City, NY – Alicia Keys took legal action to remove a popular video from Youtube that depicted Palestinian women protesting Israel”s military occupation to the tune of Keys” song “This Girl Is on Fire.” According to a Youtube notification, the video, that […]
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Rights Advocates Visit Alicia Keys’ Brooklyn Charity, Ask Keys to Cancel Israel Show
For Immediate Release For media inquiries, email sasha@usacbi.org June 11, 2013, New York, NY – A delegation of Palestinian-Americans, representing coalitions of over 500 US organizations, delivered a petition today signed by over 12,000 people to the New York City office of Alicia Keys” nonprofit fighting HIV/AIDS, Keep a Child Alive, calling on Keys to cancel her July 4th […]
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Action Alert: Tell Alicia Keys to cancel her scheduled concert!
Alicia Keys is scheduled to perform to an audience of 11,000 in Tel Aviv on 4 July 2013. Following calls from Alice Walker, Roger Waters, Boycott from Within and many more, Alicia Keys has expressed that she is still planning to perform. We want to deliver a petition (http://ow.ly/lHWgD) to her Brooklyn based charity with […]
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Belgian students vote in favor of Israel boycott
The JTA reported on June 1 that a Belgian student association voted in favor of an academic boycott of Israel. In a vote last month, the general council of the Federation of French-speaking Students in Belgium, or FEF, adopted a motion calling for “a freezing of relations with Israeli universities,” the Belgian newspaper Le Soir reported Wednesday. […]
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Open letter from Alice Walker to Alicia Keys
UPDATE: Support the campaign calling on Alicia Keys to cancel her Tel Aviv concert, take action: http://blog.endtheoccupation.org/2013/05/take-action-send-alicia-keys-your-bds.html Dear Alicia Keys, I have learned today that you are due to perform in Israel very soon. We have never met, though I believe we are mutually respectful of each other”s path and work. It would grieve me […]
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USACBI response to AAUP statement on academic boycott
David Lloyd, of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel’s Organizing Committee, authored the following response to the statement of the American Association of University Professors (http://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-statement-academic-boycotts) issued on May 10: The AAUP’s statement is nothing new and is as incoherent on the academic and cultural boycott of Israel as it […]
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USACBI Statement of Support for the Association for Asian American Studies
Please click here to download the AAAS Boycott Resolution, passed at the 2013 AAAS Annual Conference. We in the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) congratulate the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) for their historic and principled decision to support the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The resolution that […]
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AAAS votes in historic decision to support boycott of Israeli academic institutions
The General Membership of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) just voted (at their annual meeting taking place this weekend in Seattle) for a resolution in support of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions and in solidarity with the world-wide movement responding to this call from Palestinian civil society. AAAS is the FIRST academic […]
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Alicia Keys: Cancel Apartheid Israel Show
Joined with the global movement for a cultural boycott of Israel by musicians, we all ask Alicia Keys to stand on the side of justice and cancel her gig in Tel Aviv, Israel. Alicia Keys is scheduled to play to a segregated audience in Israel on July 4, 2013 at Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv. […]
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Brooklyn College SJP Condemns Attacks Against Advocates for BDS and Palestinian Rights
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2013 CONTACT: Sundus Seif, brooklyncollegesjp@gmail.com NEW YORK – The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter of Brooklyn College deplores the efforts of politicians and others to bully student activists and faculty and to smear supporters of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel as anti-Semites. In recent days, opponents of an […]
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