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Video: Black Lives Matter, Israeli Annexation and BDS – USACBI webinar with Robin D.G. Kelley and Rabab Abdulhadi
On June 30, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel hosted a webinar on Black Lives Matter, Israeli Annexation and BDS, the first in our ongoing summer webinar series. The speakers during this powerful discussion were Rabab Abdulhadi (Director and Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies and Associate Professor […]
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June 30: USACBI webinar – Black Lives Matter, Israeli Annexation and BDS with Robin Kelley and Rabab Abdulhadi
The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) will host a summer webinar series on the topic of Palestine and BDS in the Age of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. The first webinar will take place on Tuesday, June 30th, 2020 at 10:00-11:00 AM Pacific / 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern / 8:00-9:00 PM […]
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USACBI Statement on Israel’s Annexation Threat
On July 1st, Israeli lawmakers are hoping to realize their longstanding plan to annex large portions of the West Bank. They see the months before the 2020 US presidential election as the optimum time to move forward. If the Knesset enacts Netanyahu’s electioneering promise, it will be the first de jure annexation since 1967. The […]
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USACBI supports the #Strike4BlackLives #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel supports the #Strike4BlackLives taking place in academia on Wednesday, June 10. The call to action was initiated by colleagues in physics and astronomy as well as in the sciences more broadly to refrain from research, meetings, classes and business as usual in support of […]
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USACBI statement in support of Black liberation and movements confronting racist police
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) expresses its strongest support for the Black and other oppressed communities, organizations, and movements that have taken to the streets to demand justice and accountability in the wake of the ongoing and pervasive criminalization, hyper-incarceration, and state murder of Black persons in the […]
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#WeAreUnderApartheid: Exclude the complicit Jerusalem Film Festival from We Are One
The following statement was published today by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). USACBI is an initial signatory of this statement along with many groups and organizations from around the world. Add your name here We, the undersigned Palestinian rights organizations, filmmakers, other artists and cultural organizations call on Tribeca Enterprises to […]
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USACBI congratulates Rabab Abdulhadi, recipient of Georgina M. Smith Award from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel extends its warmest congratulations to Rabab Abdulhadi, Palestinian scholar-activist and longtime USACBI Organizing Collective member who has consistently resisted racism, oppression and all forms of attacks aimed at suppressing her work and Palestinian expression as a whole. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) […]
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Call to Academics: Release Palestinian American researcher Ubai Aboudi
Prominent scientists and academics have released a new petition urging the immediate release of detained Palestinian-American researcher Ubai Aboudi, the executive director of the Bisan Center for Research and Development. Noam Chomsky and Nobel Prize winner George Smith are among the signatories to the petition, launched by Scientists for Palestine. Ubai was abducted from his home the night of […]
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New book highlights academic boycott campaigns – Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel
The new book, Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel, edited by David Landy, Ronit Lentin and Conor McCarthy, was published on May 15, 2020 and is available for print and e-book order at Zed Books. The book situates the academic boycott of Israel in the broader context of academic freedom, and includes […]
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USACBI Open Letter to Point Park University President Paul Hennigan
Open Letter to Point Park University President Paul Hennigan: The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) Organizing Collective writes in response to your recent Op-Ed in the Pittsburg Jewish Chronicle, where you assert Point Park University’s principled opposition to all forms of discrimination, including antisemitism, which you uncritically state “includes […]
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