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Stevie Wonder Please Say No to Apartheid Israel: An Open Letter
Dear Stevie Wonder: Along with the undersigned, the Organizing Collective for the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) writes to urge you to hold strong to your opposition to Apartheid by declining Israel’s Wolf Prize. We’d like to begin with our acknowledgement and thanks for your past thoughtful and steadfast […]
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January 23, Online Event: Liberation vs Dependency: Strategies to Defeat Neoliberalism and Colonialism in Algeria, South Africa, and Palestine
Saturday, January 23, 2021 11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern/7 pm GMT/9 pm Palestine time Online event, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodu6qpjoqHNBKRNG0ucrF4kqmcdOUMYbl Neoliberalism is sold, and adopted, as the most viable model of development while playing a central counter-revolutionary role in societies still engaging decolonization. Neoliberal policies have advanced colonial projects by protecting models of accumulation through dispossession […]
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January 23, Online event: Palestine, Antisemitism and Academic Freedom
The following event is being organized by our colleagues at BRICUP, the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine. We invite you to join: Palestine, Antisemitism and Academic Freedom How to Resist the IHRA Definition 1030 – 1315 (British time), Saturday, 23rd January 2021 (2:30 am – 5:15 am Pacific, 5:30 am – 8:15 am […]
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Joint Statement: Solidarity with Palestine Antikolonial in Münster, Germany
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is committed to supporting Palestinian and Palestine solidarity organizations targeted for repression in the U.S. and around the world. Campuses are a particularly powerful site of mobilization in support of Palestinian rights and have also become targets of repression. We joined the following international […]
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Support Palestinian rights on campus and the academic boycott of Israel this #GivingTuesday
Dear endorsers and friends of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, USACBI has been organizing for over 10 years to advocate for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel in defense of Palestinian rights and in support of Palestinian liberation. Responding to the call of Palestinian academics and cultural workers, […]
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November 14, Online ASA Panel: Truth to Power and Power’s Untruth: Challenging Silencing Strategies in the Palestinian Struggle
The following event is part of the American Studies Association’s “Freedom School”, its virtual annual meeting. ASA has now listed this course on their online program. The event will be streamed live on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDdwnqUgZrg&feature=youtu.be Saturday, November 14 1:00 pm Pacific/4:00 pm Eastern YouTube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDdwnqUgZrg&feature=youtu.be An American Studies Association Freedom Course Supporting Palestinian liberation […]
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Nov. 8, online event: A Conversation with Ubai Aboudi
Sunday, 8 November 10 am Pacific – 1 pm Eastern – 8 pm Palestine time Organized by Scientists for Palestine Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuipqDgiGdUuIu88i-47cvXhPt7WGGBg Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/374245957104909 Registration for this event is now open. The link to register can be found here. Scientists for Palestine is extremely proud to announce an entire webinar dedicated to the return […]
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USACBI Condemns US Science Funding of Illegal Israeli Institutions
On October 28, 2020, the Trump administration eliminated U.S. government restrictions on US scientific funding to Israeli institutions in illegal settlements in Palestine. Those restrictions were part of U.S. policy since the 1970s. On the same day, the Trump administration initiated a new science and technology cooperation agreement between the U.S. and Israel that further legitimizes Ariel […]
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Video from University of Hawai’i challenges Zoom censorship of Palestine: We will not be silenced! #LeilaKhaledSpeaks
This video is a response from Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine at the U of Hawai’i and KOA Futures (Cancel Rimpac Coalition) to the censoring by Zoom, with complicity from the University of Hawai‘i, of the event “We Will Not Be Silenced: The Case of Khaled and Solidarity from Hawai’i to Palestine.” Watch […]
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We Will Not Be Silenced: Continuing the struggle against corporate and university censorship of Palestine – report and videos
Yesterday, over 10 universities and academic groups hosted webinars featuring a message from Leila Khaled, as part of We Will Not Be Silenced: National Day of Action Against the Criminalization and Censorship of Campus Political Speech. Of those events, three of them – at the University of Hawai’i, New York University and the University of Leeds […]
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